www.jeepfamily.com I'm putting a site together for fun (you can read the detailed description on the About page) It's primarily just going to be an informational site (once again the about page explains my motivation). But I want to make sure I've got all the elements that I should have encorporated before I start to go to town populating the pages with content. I've nearly finished the pages for 1940 under the year by year guide, most of the rest of the site is just content place holders. You should be able to get the general gist of it by viewing those few pages under 1940. So what am I missing? I installed a cgi search function (and have updated it to the sites current status for you all to test if you want), it needs to be templated but that's way way way on the back burner. The contact form will be a drop in php function.... Haven't decided how to do the image gallery yet... I don't have any real desire to create a "community" site.... just a simple informational site... Can you think of any thing which I've left out? Edit: Just realized that none of the pages have meta data and the search script uses that data to populate the returns... (that's the sort of thing I'm wanting to know)
I would say that many automobile sites are very sweet looking because of the vehicle images used in the interfaces. Try that and I think that would already make your site much more attractive.
I laid out a few ground rules before I started on the site... From the About Page I laid out a few ground rules for the site. No individual page would have a total file size larger than 25k except for pages where I was displaying a full size image linked to from a thumbnail. The code itself would be written so as to display consistantly across both new browsers and older browsers going back to Netscape 6 and IE 5.5. That being the case I'm trying to stear clear of as many images as possible... I know that the images for navigation would end up being cached so would only have to load once, but that goes against what my intentions are. Currently the images on the individual models pages haven't been optimized so as to keep the pages in line with my goal of 25k for the total page size, I plan on running a batch process on the image folder once I have all the images on site instead of doing each one individually.