# New Website - Beta Testing **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [February 26, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905 "2005-02-26T10:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/1 "2005-02-26T10:27:33Z")
Well, I have been working on a new SON website and I think it’s ready for beta testing. I can test all I want myself but I really do need input from the general SON public. Seeing as how most of us use the message board primarily and hardly ever see the main homepage, I’ve made the new page more integrated with the message board. Other items like “Ride of the Month” or wahtever will come shortly. Please let me know if you find any problems. Feel free to post problems in this thread. All comments, criticism, suggestions appreciated. **[http://www.son240sx.ca/glportal/](http://www.son240sx.ca/glportal/)** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/2 "2005-02-26T10:38:01Z")
NVM I was not thinking lol ---
**Author:** ![newbieracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@newbieracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newbieracer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/3 "2005-02-26T12:11:04Z")
I like it, But i dunno it just seems a lil To Busy, over on the right side, maybe its just the calender, over all quite nice. ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/4 "2005-02-26T14:35:11Z")
I’m planning on changing colour schemes shortly on the main page. Something a bit more Nissanesque; red, silver, black, white. ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/5 "2005-03-01T17:52:35Z")
It looks a bit better in subsilver since the new logo doesn’t work with subblack, but it still doesn’t match up very well at all visually. The boxes around the logo and banner ad don’t work well at all. Horizontal scrollbar! 1024_768 is the resolution used by the vast majority at the present, with a small but reasonable amount at 800_600, a few stragglers at 640_480 and all the rest above. It is understandable not to cater to the fools still at 640_480, but it is unkind and unwise to make a website that scrolls horizontally at 800_600. To make it so that it scrolls horizontally at 1024_768… that’s just plain ignorant. Furthermore: -The pictures and text in the main section don’t go together very well. You have huge blank space underneath the pics that makes the site look unprofessional. If Microsoft released betas like this, the world would be a better place filled with Linux users. -The new logo looks clumsier and less professional. Otherwise the design seems pretty good, I like the concept of it. I would’ve gone a different direction with the navigation and placed it as a slim top bar, rather than a side bar (this would also get rid of the annoying horizontal scroll bar) Finally, this is all just by looking at it, I’ve yet to load it to my hard drive and tear apart the table structure. More to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/6 "2005-03-01T17:59:41Z")
Oh wow. I take back some of the criticism. The table layout is actually quite nice and the indenting is very clean and makes the code easy to read. If you actually wrote the table structure yourself rather than use Fireworks or something, I’m very impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/7 "2005-03-01T18:31:43Z")
100% hand coded in EditPlus. I Don’t use WYSIWYG shit. 🙂 The point of the beta was to get something functional. Looks isn’t what I was more concerned about; it was more about the underlying/backend programming to see if it will break. I have plans for a better design, with a different colour scheme. Oh and the width is too wide because of the logo and the banner. I’ll have to find a better place for the banner where it’s less of a problem. ---
**Author:** ![DarkForceJackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DarkForceJackal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DarkForceJackal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/8 "2005-03-01T18:40:52Z")
Wow, I think it looks amazing, really. ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/9 "2005-03-01T18:53:44Z")
Props on the code, too many people pussy out with using the visual web design tools and that always leads to sloppy innefficient code that loads like crap. I (before I got lazy and gave up on web design) used a program called HTML editor that colour coded for me and kept indents (I’d have to indent it myself, but I don’t have to tab over for EVERY line like I would in notepad when I’m writing somewhere nested) and I liked that a lot. It also had a preview window to save me from loading up a browser. ---
**Author:** ![DarkForceJackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DarkForceJackal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DarkForceJackal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/10 "2005-03-01T19:27:27Z")
> [@Solarian](#): > > Props on the code, too many people pussy out with using the visual web design tools and that always leads to sloppy innefficient code that loads like crap. ---
**Author:** ![TheDecline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@TheDecline](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TheDecline)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/11 "2005-03-03T20:39:44Z")
no need for a calender. most people have the date in the corner of their screen already. just makes it look stupid. also the forum stats are not needed. just more useless info to clutter the side bars. less it more. ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/12 "2005-03-03T21:14:59Z")
The calendar highlights dates that have activity. We can have meets and shit marked for certain dates so people notice them. Go refresh the page now and see if you see anything on the 8th. Forum stats? I guess we can remove that. No one really needs to know that I suppose. :dunno: ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/13 "2005-03-04T05:38:44Z")
I see a GLPortal Hacking Attempt on the 8th 🙂 Are we gonna get together and have a 1337 h4xx0ring m337? ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/14 "2005-03-04T09:03:56Z")
> [@Solarian](#): > > I see a GLPortal Hacking Attempt on the 8th 🙂 Are we gonna get together and have a 1337 h4xx0ring m337? :pat: Hrm, are you logged into the SON message board? If you are not logged in you will get that error. IF you are logged in, then maybe it’s a bug. :dunno: I’ll look into it tonight. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/15 "2005-03-04T10:22:37Z")
I am logged in, I checked it again, it says my name in the top corner. So… No meet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/16 "2005-03-04T20:41:25Z")
It’s fixed… ---
**Author:** ![newbieracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@newbieracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newbieracer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/17 "2005-03-09T21:07:17Z")
maybe wrap the text on the history a bit, liek around the pictures, its quite spaced out right now. ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/18 "2005-03-09T21:12:28Z")
The content/main intro page definately needs to be worked on. Just so you know, I just copied/pasted the text from the current homepage. Nothing’s final. Now test the functionality. I’m already aware of the design issues. ---
**Author:** ![iQuAGoD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@iQuAGoD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iQuAGoD)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-website-beta-testing/83905/19 "2005-04-30T22:31:34Z")
I came up with a new layout for the main page. Implemented with the help of Gautam “G-Unit” Gonad Lad and some graphics courtesy of teh mikeness. I think it looks much better now. We have completed this page far enough to go live, so I’ve linked the SON240SX home page to it. We will be changing the directory names around and integrating things a little more, but for now its “done”. Without further adue: [http://son240sx.ca/glportal](http://son240sx.ca/glportal) (again) Please leave any feedback in this thread, including what you like, what you don’t and what we could add to improve things. Thanks in advance for any input.