Dai the Socket Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 (edited) Hello. I'm proud to give you the new URL for the Heatsink Bikes website :angry: Me, Danny Tipple and Steve@heatsinkbikes.com, amongst others have been making the new site and it's fresh full of new products for you to feast your eyes on. I'd just like to slip in how thankful I am to Danny Tipple, and Simon to an extent. Danny has helped me with a fair bit of the code and has helped tweak some things like the background image changing etc. - So thanks very much Danny. You know I love you. All heatsink products can be found at http://www.heatsinkbikes.com from now on, and I believe soon http://heatsinkpads.com will forward to the new Heatsink Bikes site. Just wanted opinions and you can generally discuss things here (Y) We all hope you like it and it's hard lots of hard work put into it, design, coding and content. More content (mainly about riders) will follow shortly. Nick and Steve@heatsinkbikes.com Edited July 15, 2005 by mod661 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Cool site Nick. It's been nice seeing it beint built and stuff. I think it's turned out really nice :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_rob2@hotmail.com Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Sweet site mate, looking good :angry: liking that booster (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todge Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Nice site there for Mr Heatsink and co. Some interesting :angry: items coming out by the looks of things too. Im keen to have a look at your tensioner (Y)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe b Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Thats a rather swish layout, i must say! Alhtough the product page is packed with lots of information the rest of the pages are not as to yet. But i will wait and im sure it will be much better... Cheers, Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Alhtough the product page is packed with lots of information the rest of the pages are not as to yet. But i will wait and im sure it will be much better... ← Which pages aren't (Y) :angry: Only ones which need updating are the Team pages. So each rider has their own page. Media shall be online shortly, all in good time though. Nick - Moddesign :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Nice coding nick (Y) P.s. Get that domain setup properly :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Nice coding nick :o P.s. Get that domain setup properly :angry: ← Not down to me :D Steve set it up tonight when I was out riding and got the PM telling me Heatsinkbikes.com was live! It's being forwarded but the nameservers shall be moved pronto (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corish Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Awesome website! Well done. I love the new 'Honigs' they look lush, also I hear they 'piss' on Konigs :angry: Nice one. Corish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Cox Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 duude! global distributers???? dont you mean distributors? nice site there apart from that teensy cock up Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Wank. Purely because Danny had something to do with it. :angry: Not bad heh. Few points though. 2 scrollbars scrolling the same way is never a good thing. Remove the margins of the page ( body { margin: 0px } ) and make sure if you wan't to use iframe type designs, to not have the browser scroller active as well. Confuses people, and looks silly. I'm not sure if it what you wan't, but your attention is more focused to the product navigation, and not the main site navigation. The main site navigation is actually quite hard to find at first, because of its red and gray (ish) nature. Its also centered, so the users see the product menu first, as its further left. As i said, not sure if thats what you wan't, but just incase it isn't. Other then that, all looks not so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Wank. Purely because Danny had something to do with it. :angry: 2 scrollbars scrolling the same way is never a good thing. Remove the margins of the page ( body { margin: 0px } ) and make sure if you wan't to use iframe type designs, to not have the browser scroller active as well. Confuses people, and looks silly. ← Haha Si i love you too. Why remove the margins from the page? Theres no need to in that design having it flush against the top will look pants (Y) And theres no iframe anywhere to be seen and only 2 scrollbars when u run some tiny tiny window :o and no horizontal scrollbar at all :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Haha Si i love you too. Why remove the margins from the page? Theres no need to in that design having it flush against the top will look pants (Y) And theres no iframe anywhere to be seen and only 2 scrollbars when u run some tiny tiny window :o and no horizontal scrollbar at all :D ← Go Danny. Go Danny. *woo hoo* Yeah. Stupid 15" screens have vertical scrolls. I'm on a 21" so don't know what 'too big' is for your mini me's :P Also yeah. No iframe. iframe's suck ass. It's an overflow table using php :angry: :S (I say that like I know what I'm talking about don't I!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 OOoo :angry:" Like the looks of the booster. Pads are a rank colour, but thats just looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 2 scrollbars scrolling the same way is never a good thing. Remove the margins of the page ( body { margin: 0px } ) and make sure if you wan't to use iframe type designs, to not have the browser scroller active as well. Confuses people, and looks silly. Just what I was going to say. I don't really see any reason for indented scroll bars, in my opinion things tend to look a lot neater when there's only the standard browser scroll bar. I have to agree on the menu as well, I'd be inclined to lose the centring and left align it. Changing the colour of the pipes either to a light grey to match the product menu or black would probably make it a little easier on the eye as well. Otherwise it all looks really good :) Kudos for failing gracefully when people try and break it with spurious _GET variables as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Steve's been trying to sort that booster out for quite a while. Was originally trying to make it 2- and 4-bolt compatible, by having wider bottom slots with some kinda spacer or something, but I guess that's all by the wayside now... Anyway, that drawing looks pretty cool, so hopefully it'll turn out good :rolleyes: Nice looking site anyway. The left menu bar would probably look better compositionally if it wasn't darker than the main bit. It just looks funny... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted July 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Just what I was going to say. I don't really see any reason for indented scroll bars, in my opinion things tend to look a lot neater when there's only the standard browser scroll bar. I have to agree on the menu as well, I'd be inclined to lose the centring and left align it. Changing the colour of the pipes either to a light grey to match the product menu or black would probably make it a little easier on the eye as well. Otherwise it all looks really good :rolleyes: Kudos for failing gracefully when people try and break it with spurious _GET variables as well! ← Hehe Thanks for the tips Dan. I think we'll make it have only one vertical scroll bar, like you said before. I'll contact Steve about the alignment of the top bar too. I believe he was pretty intent on the grey for the product background, just to set it apart from the content really. We'll have a chat though. Thanks for your help. Wouldn't add me to msn would you? mod661@hotmail.com - could have a further chat. Thanks again. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 I believe he was pretty intent on the grey for the product background, just to set it apart from the content really. We'll have a chat though. Thanks for your help. I'm not sure if that's still in reply to me? If so... by 'pipes' I meant the vertical lines seperating the items in the main menu. Too long using linux, I just automatically think of things in terms of shell commands :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatsink Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Hi there! Thanks for the suggestions everyone :P The double scroll and tweaking the set-up of the horizontal and vertical navigation bars has been in consideration to be played around with a bit. I couldn't put my finger on how to tweak them for the moment, so they've remained unchanged. The double scroller will go, and we'll try out some of the suggestions for the nav bars to see if we can tweak the site just that little bit more! Has anyone noticed what the top banner does? Refresh the page a few times and you might see it :D Alot of work has gone into getting the site to this point, and during the evolutionary process thanks go to Simon for his initial work on my first ideas for the site, then Nick took the project on board and brought the great look and coding to it. He has worked at a phenomenal rate, at crazy hours of the day, and been very patient with me changing my mind! Thanks to Danny for being our technical consultant, there when we need him. A special mention to Sam Holmes for producing the great silohuettes in the top banner too. :rolleyes: The work on this site has mostly happened from around 9 until 1 in the morning over the past week. Since I'm getting up at 5:30am every morning at the moment, I'm now looking forward to a bit more sleep! Hopefully the site is easy to navigate, and looks great too. I think the top banner that Nick came up with really makes the look of the site B) More content will be going up during the next week, the production info stuff is pretty much there, apart from me using too many exclaimation marks (!!!!!) Also the product descriptions are maybe a tad waffly, but I think it's important to leave a stamp of your personality on the site - Don't want to strip it bare of the human side because it will be boring to lread through! Thanks for the interest in the new products too :) I guess it wasn't too much of a surprise to see a booster coming out from me. I'll be putting the technical info I posted in the FAQ about stiffness of structures, the importance of EI etc up on my site in a new tidied up form at some point in the future too. Keep your feedback and suggestions coming - We're listening and will gratefully try out your ideas :) Cheers, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Bleech Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 I know bugger all about website design - it looks good to me :rolleyes: I found it easy to navigate :P one thing i noticed... Heatsink stickers can be send in the photos, notably the full page side hop! yeah i noticed the top bit B) pretty swish :D mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Cook Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Very nice site mate. I love that booster. Anyone got any idea when it is going to be out and how much. And that tensioner ? Chris :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Lovely site, one cheeky question, can i have some free honigs to replace my dead konigs? :rolleyes:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted July 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Lovely site, one cheeky question, can i have some free honigs to replace my dead konigs? :P" ← If you give him £12, when they're past prototyping stages :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatsink Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Ooops! sorting out some set-up stuff so the site may not be accessable until this evening :"> Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Working fine here. Looks nice, although I'm not really a fan of the font. Like you care...! Just quickly: When you click the picture of the (HS33) pads, it takes you back to the homepage, which I thought was a bit random :rolleyes: I am definitely intruiged by the tensioner. And the pad naming is a bit kool - Konig/Honig. Honey pads? That is a good name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.