New Homepage and request for input

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New Homepage and request for input

Post by guru » Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:16 pm

I'm pleased to announce that during the recent work to prevent the spammers from attacking our forum I carried on and finally deployed the new homepage. If you go to http://rover800.info you'll see it's quite a bit different to before, being based on Wordpress rather then a static page. The biggest benefits for us are that we can easily create and edit content without needing any specialist web design tools and hopefully keep it a little more dynamic then before.

On that subject if anyone would be interested in writing some interesting articles for the homepage please reply to this thread and as long as the mod team are happy I can give privs and assistance to help you do this. In addition I'd love to have a decent selection of Rover 800 pics on there as well so if anyone has any front page worthy ones they'd like to submit then add them here or PM me.

The page that is there at the moment is just a starting point for us, over time I plan to add an event calendar and event blog etc.

If you have any ideas or comments regarding the new page please let us know here, all ideas are greatly appreciated!
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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by TheVDM » Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:26 pm

Looking good, I had to do a force refresh (CTRL + F5) to get it to show as the old homepage was cached in my browser.

Is the blog section personal to each member, i.e. we all have the option to create our own rover800.info blog of our restoration projects etc... or do the entries all go into one big blog?

I am happy to submit some R800 pictures after the seaguls stop making a mess of my car although I will hold back on the articles as my knowledge is a little low compared to many others on here.
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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by MikeMedford » Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:34 pm

1 slight error, currently I can edit using your account as you're using my email address for admin!

Looks good, but I would consider using the old banner personally (I can supply it without the writing if need be).

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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by guru » Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:16 pm

Mike, do you mean when you edit pages / posts on wordpress they come up as Guru?

If you could send over the banner without the writing I'll defo put it up.......the one of my bonnet was only meant to be a temporary one! I would also like a few other banner pics so we can rotate them if anyone has anything suitable.
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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by MikeMedford » Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:27 pm

Aye, come up as if I'm logged in as you, so can see all the settings, users, editing options etc lol

Will try and dig out the banner later as it's currently on an external drive with the rest of most of my docs (backing everything up for reformat).

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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by TDHFastback » Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:56 pm

Thanks for your time doing this. It looks super

I think we should keep "The Flagship" name on our logo. It would make a good name for a magazine in the future and stop a rival group from using it.

The 800 is after all Rovers Flag ship model :wink:

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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by Alex SBY » Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:53 pm

I agree. "The Flagship" is an excellent strapline, and top idea for a magazine name suggestion! :)
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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by soundrediscover » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:32 pm

dicovered the change today, very good!
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Re: New Homepage and request for input

Post by ash » Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:49 pm

New page looks good.

However, I think it needs a better picture on along the banner at the top. No reflection upon the car itself, just isn't the best quality - perhaps zoomed in/cropped too much.
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