After many many many hours my new site is sorta of finished ( !! ). The main idea was to create a sort of myspace.com but for cars rather than people. It's all hand coded by me, and is still a bit bare, but the main features of the site are working. Basically it goes like this.. a person can either come along, create an account, create a page for their car , upload pics and write about it etc.. then this car will get voted on by people browsing. Registered users can post comments on one anothers pages etc. Browsing people can go to the 'rate rides' section, which will grab a random car and allow you to vote on it, after voting you will see the avg vote etc and be shown a new car to vote on. (like hotornot.com). One feature I havn't implemented yet is to provide 2 random cars, and the user can vote on which they think would win in a drag race or by its looks etc.. So all the cars would have a win\loss rating aswell. The browse function is also a little dodgy at the moment, the sorting part isn't implemented etc Its just on a temporary domain for now (yes i've registered the other domain so dont try!). And there are a few bugs here and there.. but I would just like an opinion of what you think of the idea and possibly if I can improve it in any way? heres the address www.myspacebro.com (just temporary) (its also filled with a lot of test accounts\fake pics of cars etc) Feel free to try it. Cheers mrconstantine
I think this is the first domain I've seen with "myspace" in it that doesn't actually advertise any MySpace products.
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the ideia is good, I think you should do something more on the design, and you need a lot off cars on the database...I think i'm going to contribute...
Cool idea, but there are some minor design issues (text on this page for exampl: myspacebro.com/viewride.php?rideID=14 ). I would add some more color to liven it up a bit. I like the clean look, more like facebook than myspace (that's a good thing).
Yes, interesting idea. You should let the cars become friends... Few things: 1) Logo doesn't link back to homepage on other pages. 2) Rate page has no skip option. 3) Line up the boxes on the homepage. 4) Members should probably be Login. I clicked on it thinking I'd get a members list. 5) Clickling Logout when not logged in gives me a blank page. 6) Populate the Browse page with a few default cars so I want to browse more. Good luck, Ty
Great concept. First page looks great but I think you need to focus on getting all the features working. I've went in and then I didn't find it all working. Keep it up.
Thanks for the replies everyone, I truly appreciate it. I have made quite a few additions and changes to it which you can see here www.cinorides.com, and I am going to change the domain soon as I guess not many people know what cino means.. its like slang for the guy who is rich with lots of power and women etc. (i think!) Added lots of mod rewrites to make the url's friendlier, particularly the browse section when you click on a make from the list, then a model from the new list etc (not the drop downs), the urls are nice e.g makemodel/lamborghini/gallardo, I hope this helps with SE's. You can also get to view the cars by just going to e.g cinorides.com/5 instead of viewride.php?blah=blah. What bothers me is I have no idea what keywords I should target... theres nothing that really captures the idea of my site in a word. car pictures? show off your car? im really stumped with it when it comes to that. Anyway, I best go to sleep now its 4am been working on this the whole day non stop, now im unknowingly leaving entire words out of my sentences :S
Random note, but if you type cino into Wikipedia, it redirects you to an entry about the Catwoman movie with Halle Berry
Hi everyone, its me again. I made a new url for the site and got a lot of things working. I'm not game enough to say its finished... I dont think it ever will be as I'll be constantly altering\adding things, but for now I think I can get it to take off. the new name is http://www.ridehustle.com , hopefully a bit more memorable and clearer than cino hehe. I dont know where to start promoting it though... it needs a lot of cars on it before it becomes interesting, and obviously most people wont bother adding their cars if theres nothing on it already.
Your website is kind of plain. I think if you use a better scheme it'll be more attractive and enjoyable to explorer.