Evaluate My New Site [Archive]

Wes

Apr 23, 2003, 01:03 PM

I was just sharing my joy of having a brand new site design. It's interactive with a live chat, and other features (you can play with those when you get there;)). It would be greatly appreciated if you could post what you think of it, if that's not too much to ask. You can use the contact feature on the site. It was made by another macrumors member, megaquad. Enough talk, here is the site
http://www.tyui.com.

Doctor Q

Apr 23, 2003, 01:21 PM

Wes, I'm really impressed. The site interface is great! The page transitions are especially enjoyable. No, I'm not just trying to be nice. I really do like the site.

Only problem: After a while, I wished the car would stop racing around at the top. It was a little distracting while I was reading the rest.

Mr. Anderson

Apr 23, 2003, 01:33 PM

Not bad, not bad at all.

So did you do all the flash yourself? What are you incorporating to get the messages and blog? PHP or just text files?

Nice work,

D :D

Wes

Apr 23, 2003, 02:00 PM

Nobody has worked this out yet, but if you click the "add your quote" thing you can change the grey header text (Under Wesley's Homepage) to whatever you want, for the whole world to see!

Glad you guys like it!

maradong

Apr 23, 2003, 02:02 PM

that s awesome.
how many ours have you spend programming that beast?

Megaquad

Apr 23, 2003, 02:15 PM

Originally posted by dukestreet
Not bad, not bad at all.
So did you do all the flash yourself?

Well, if you ask me yeah all by myself :D

What are you incorporating to get the messages and blog? PHP or just text files?

Nice work,

D :D
Both pad and blog are made with PHP.
Msg pad has also these cool features:
-it automatically converts link to hyperlink.. underlines it, changes color
-it has bad word filter
-ServeBot has these nice commands: /country, /IP, /agent, /bot, /info etc.
-it also has secret command to delete msgpad database :D

Mr. Anderson

Apr 23, 2003, 02:36 PM

ah, so you did the site not Wes? I'm a little confused.

I've played with some php/MySQL with flash but not all that much, huge potential there.

D

Megaquad

Apr 23, 2003, 02:55 PM

Originally posted by dukestreet
ah, so you did the site not Wes? I'm a little confused.

I've played with some php/MySQL with flash but not all that much, huge potential there.

D
yeah i did it, all for wesley :p
read his post carefully and you'll see it

Wes

Apr 23, 2003, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by Megaquad
yeah i did it, all for wesley :p
read his post carefully and you'll see it

Just when I had people thinking I'm a flash/php freak, you go and let the truth out!:mad: :p

noel4r

Apr 23, 2003, 03:28 PM

nice and clean layout

Mr. Anderson

Apr 23, 2003, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by Megaquad
yeah i did it, all for wesley :p
read his post carefully and you'll see it

damn, feel like an idiot for not seeing that, sorry.

And in light of that I might have a few questions for you shortly....via pm or email.

Thanks,

D

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 04:03 PM

Good job Megaquad! Nice! I think it's a real winner, Wes! Best of luck!

:)

P.S. On one hand, I'm wondering: what is to prevent someone from using any of our usernames and pretend to be us on your site?
Identity theft is an issue, isn't it?

Megaquad

Apr 23, 2003, 04:24 PM

Originally posted by GeneR

P.S. On one hand, I'm wondering: what is to prevent someone from using any of our usernames and pretend to be us on your site?
Identity theft is an issue, isn't it?
hmm... but you can come on any chat in the world and put username of anyone from MR. I dont see reason why would someone do that.
but i think it could be solved with registration..but people wouldnt bother registering for personal blog site ;)

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 04:31 PM

That's true. What I'm saying is that if I understand the website correctly, there aren't any account options. I could go to the website and enter my name as, GeneR, for that day. But tomorrow someone else could use the same name, GeneR, on the same website.

Is that correct? Maybe I did not look at it correctly.

Megaquad

Apr 23, 2003, 04:57 PM

yeah that is true, no account options because this is personal site and i think people are too lazy to register for such thing.

scem0

Apr 23, 2003, 05:18 PM

It is very nice. My sister is sitting by me and she says to tell
you that she loves the color scheme. :D

Wes

Apr 23, 2003, 05:27 PM

Originally posted by scem0
It is very nice. My sister is sitting by me and she says to tell
you that she loves the color scheme. :D

Psttttt.. Mega, it can't be good when girls tell us they like our colours! Quick! Make it blue!

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by Wes
Psttttt.. Mega, it can't be good when girls tell us they like our colours! Quick! Make it blue!

Too funny! :D I guess scem0 has decided to corrupt his sister by bringing her on into Macrumors. Ah, how fragile is youth! :D

Mr. Anderson

Apr 23, 2003, 05:36 PM

So what is the significance of the racing Minis? You have that one clip but nothing else.....

D

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 05:44 PM

Originally posted by dukestreet
So what is the significance of the racing Minis? You have that one clip but nothing else.....

D

That would make a great 'tar by the way. :D

Wes

Apr 23, 2003, 06:05 PM

The significance is i have this:

jefhatfield

Apr 23, 2003, 09:53 PM

that's one of the best personal sites i have seen on the web

and best of all, you didn't make it too cluttered like many feel compelled to do

shadowfax

Apr 23, 2003, 10:00 PM

very nice, clean site. i hope you enjoy it. that car is so badass, too :D

dantec

Apr 24, 2003, 03:47 PM

Really cool site... now mega is going to make one ! mouhhahahaha

MrMacMan

Apr 24, 2003, 09:54 PM

nice layout man.

:D

Nice stuff, looks great

some stuff needs to be worked out tho...

some weird kinks...

ibookin'

Apr 24, 2003, 10:40 PM

Very nice, just change the car so it doesn't move! Distracting...

Very nice integration of Flash and PHP. I'll have to get a copy of Flash and play around with it... :D

Nice job, Mega.

Wes

Apr 25, 2003, 05:28 AM

Originally posted by MrMacman

some stuff needs to be worked out tho...

some weird kinks...

Would you care to enlighten us?

Megaquad

Apr 25, 2003, 06:05 AM

Originally posted by Wes
Would you care to enlighten us?
Maybe it's when I was messing with blog... all kinds of messages you could see then :)
but it's all fine now, i was just enhancing submitting blog engine

jefhatfield

Apr 25, 2003, 01:01 PM

i kind of like the moving car bit

...at least it is not spinning in circles like scem0's old avatar that makes it hard to read anything on the same page:p

Megaquad

Apr 27, 2003, 06:18 AM

Originally posted by jefhatfield
i kind of like the moving car bit

...at least it is not spinning in circles like scem0's old avatar that makes it hard to read anything on the same page:p
UH!! dont remind us on that..that.. thing!! ;) :p :D

jefhatfield

Apr 27, 2003, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by Megaquad
UH!! dont remind us on that..that.. thing!! ;) :p :D

i know i don't like motion that is in excess

how do i know that?

as a kid, i hated windy car rides and especially that ride at the carnival that went in circles or any ride that went in circles...as a young adult, i opted not to go to the navy but to the civilian defense sector on dry ground, thank you...and as a middle aged person, i would go on this site which is full of immature teenagers who like to taunt old people like me and know that spinning avatars will send me to the medicine chest to take a couple of excedrin for the splitting headache that is caused from looking at such a moving object;)

billyboy

Apr 27, 2003, 10:08 AM

Good clean front page. I like the mini footage. A mate of mine was a stunt driver in the Italian Job. The loop would bug me if I were to spend too long on the front page, but as it works quite well as the bait to get you to head into the web site, cool.

I watched that video of the MS CEO, I was laughing so hard at the whole thing. Just ridiculous, but the clincher was when they applauded and whooped when he was struggling for breath after a 60 second jaunt around the stage. Please, he might love the company but he isnt going to be around too long to enjoy it if he's in that bad shape.

wdlove

Apr 27, 2003, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Wes
Psttttt.. Mega, it can't be good when girls tell us they like our colours! Quick! Make it blue!

Actually you might want to consider blue, male color! ;) Blue happens to be my favorite color. Nice layout, thank you!

scem0

Apr 27, 2003, 02:40 PM

Megaquad

Apr 27, 2003, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by scem0
I'm that handsome? :D
No you are that spooky :D
hint hint: make it rotate without stopping for few seconds, its more devastating