Should go live tomorrow but the doors are now open.

http://www.simviation.com/1/front-page


There will be things soon (such as the helps sections, etc ) added but the main structure of the site is ready .....

Looks good Pete, :) except for the Google ad covering up our banner.

Is it my imagination, or do the thumbnails for the downloads look better?

patchz wrote on Sep 15^th, 2010 at 1:30pm:

except for the Google ad covering up our banner.

I agree ,But that's perhaps the main contribution to keep the site  running, am I right?

Looks great, I still don't know what is all that thing of  "Live"  :-/ 

Looks great!

I also noticed that the helicopter on the right side of the banner is from one of my screenshots that I posted.
That was a surprise!
:)

wrote on Sep 15^th, 2010 at 1:48pm:

Looks great! I also noticed that the helicopter on the right side of the banner is from one of my screenshots that I posted. That was a surprise! :)

;D

The graphics guy asked me for some images to work with so I went though the screenshot forums backup images -- picked out a few that stood out in the 100 I looked at .... no idea who they wwere by as they were just a series of images in the 'yabbuploads' folder ... thanks for the great image! :)


Quote:

except for the Google ad covering up our banner.

replace the word 'banner' with 'top header' & you are more on the mark ....  ;)

It's a nice clean look. I like the addition of latest forum posts.

I got to test-drive the site, and I will say it is very nice. I also liked the latest forum posts section. And I thought the same thing about the ad, but I don't think there's much you can do about it. ::)

8-)

Goodly morning... :)

It looks good....a change is as good as a rest they say... ;)

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Excellent job Pete, very aesthetically pleasing. :)

The graphics took 2 days to complete -- the engine/system has been 1000 hours and being developed since April. ....  :)

We are now working on the server OS to maximise the database as things are running slow ---- you can't have any major work launched without some bugs being thrown up .....  8-)

Looking really good, Pete!   Keep on keepin' on.  :)

alrot wrote on Sep 15^th, 2010 at 1:38pm:

I still don't know what is all that thing of  "Live"  :-/

Alrot,

It just means that the site has enough of the features online and debugged as to be finally considered "open for business".  It means that it is the "Official Opening". 

Today you can visit it, but think of it as beyond a Beta version (we've been testing in the background) but not yet at release level.

Does that help?

best,

................john

JBaymore wrote on Sep 16^th, 2010 at 11:59am:

alrot wrote on Sep 15th, 2010 at 1:38pm: I still don't know what is all that thing of  "Live"  :-/  Alrot, It just means that the site has enough of the features online and debugged as to be finally considered "open for business".  It means that it is the "Official Opening".  Today you can visit it, but think of it as beyond a Beta version (we've been testing in the background) but not yet at release level. Does that help? best, ................john

Yes  :),Sorry John I didn't see this until this afternoon , its that I been reading lately all that Windows Live things then suddenly everything was Live  ;D
Thanks for the information (I though It really have to do something with MS LOL

cheers

Put on hold.
Major bug found and programmer cannot investigate for now. ..

So we are still in beta mode ..

Pete, will the forums be getting "the treatment" too, or are you maintaining the present style/format?

wrote on Sep 16^th, 2010 at 4:28pm:

Pete, will the forums be getting "the treatment" too, or are you maintaining the present style/format?

It would be really cool to see this done. For the upgrade I'm doing on my site soon, (fsrotorcraft.webs.com) the forums will use the same header/site template to give it the appearance that the forums are actually part of the main site. I think that if this was done for simviation, it would be really cool, especially with the new site design.

8-)

BrandonF wrote on Sep 16^th, 2010 at 10:38pm:

wrote on Sep 16th, 2010 at 4:28pm: Pete, will the forums be getting "the treatment" too, or are you maintaining the present style/format? It would be really cool to see this done. For the upgrade I'm doing on my site soon, (fsrotorcraft.webs.com) the forums will use the same header/site template to give it the appearance that the forums are actually part of the main site. I think that if this was done for simviation, it would be really cool, especially with the new site design. 8-)

+1 :)

wrote on Sep 16^th, 2010 at 4:28pm:

Pete, will the forums be getting "the treatment" too, or are you maintaining the present style/format?

'The treatment' was a commissioned custom coded website ... forums are usually off the shelf formats either freeware (like yabb) or available for a small fee ....

It would be nice to move to a better forum but one thing at a time  .... & the challenge would be to find a format that this big forum could be converted to ....  :o

So using Pete's above comments and the requests about "upgrading" things as a foil for the following comment.........

AND..........

Acknowledging that Pete has had NOTHING to do with this following posting of mine..........

If you want to REALLY help out in keeping SimViation "on the air" and continuing to improve and offer features that everyone would like to see...........

...........instead of buying that next payware plane or scenery or gauge.... put that $10 to $50 (or whatever) into a Premier Membership here at SimV.  It costs Pete a fortune to keep this beast running at the incredible level it already does.  Yes, there are ads helping out (thankfully)...... but that is not fully paying all the bills.  Nor the investment of time.

So chip in and give the site you know and love a hand here.

Again... Pete has had nothing to do with me posting this.  If I asked him first... he'd probably say "no...don't post it."  Easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission  8-).

If you can....... help out.  Give something back.  (You freeware developers out there ... you are already giving back.  And you payware people who donate prizes to our contests..... you already do too.)

best,

.....................john