Webnauts was nice enough to suggest I get a site review in regards to SEO and other input, but I declined the offer. Yesterday I received two Emails suggesting a similar site submission for review. I was quite content with the site performance, but one email suggested that I was quite happy to 'recite rubbish' about other sites.

I do have a sense of humour, and the reason I declined the offer was simply that I felt happy with the sites performance.

Can we use the on WPW mail box, for personal contact should you feel the need, I am inclined to think using contact through my web site system is a little "Sneaky". .

I know I can rely on Webnauts to give me something I can use. The rest of you ? ** send shivers down my spine *

I think the site can offer a ton of scope for critics. do not be shy now. . lets have a fun thread.

P.S. here it is www.restored-classics.com

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Tubby,
Have you made that site yourself? To me it seems impossible to review even a small part of it.

I leave markup and validation to other people.

1. It is an impressive work and an interesting site.

2. It is cool and funny. A glance at the site, and I think, here is a person that loves classic cars.

3. The pictures / the photographies could have been better. The cartoons are funny, tells a story and are good enough.

4. The front page is more finished than the rest.

Final question. Is there any person on this earth that knows more about classic cars than you? If I should buy a classic car, you will be my preferred advisor.

Market it, market it, market it.

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Thank Ggun
3. The pictures / the photographies could have been better.

You are right there mate. I found out early on that users will email me for a better quality image if they are making a calendar, or need an image for a birthday card. I try not to miss out on any chance of users asking for something. all images just get gif'd and placed without further ado. I am also in the long slow process or renaming the images - img1 img2 is not the best for images of the cars. . But it is a huge task and the reward is not big enough yet to compensate for the time involved.

'If I should buy a classic car, you will be my preferred advisor.'
If you should buy a classic car. you should step back even more years and go for a Model A Ford. and just drive it the school fete's during the summer months. Then you can tell all the kids tall story's about when you were a kid petrol only came in small Coca cola bottles, from the black market man outside the pub. . .

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With your remark, Ggun, you made me think over my initials. Kgun, oh it is English and could be misunderstood. It is not a stengun or a GoogleGun (Ggun). It is only a WaterGun, that is Wgun.

When I started in the Central Bank of Norway, the Govenor, yes the Govenor himself said when he looked at the initials of a paper I have written for Norwegian Government in the upper left corner, KGB has now also infiltrated the Central Bank of Norway. He was a fantastic person, and I got the job to control the spelling of his last yearly speech to the Government. Now I am controlling your spelling and note that you are a notorious "wrong speller", not seller.

Kjell Gunnar Bleivik=KGB

Back to your topic regarding classic cars. In Norway we have a word "Veteran Biler". That is cars older than 30 years. Taxes on such cars are less than on newer cars. Some of them increase in price, as I said in another thread, Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro, if they are in good condition. I think it is possible to sell a Ford Mustang in excellent condition for NOK 250 000, about USD 40 000.

If I should require a A or T-ford, I have to be a car mechanic or what do you believe? Yes, it should be fine to drive one in the summer.

Proposal for you. Why do you not buy a good video camera and put videos on your site?

The site is a fantastic resource for veteran / classic car lovers. I have not seen any comparable on content. And I have seen a lot of internet sites since the mid 1990's.

Yours KWGun, that is Key Word Gun :-)

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Kgun wrote
"Proposal for you. Why do you not buy a good video camera and put videos on your site?"
This would be a bit of a side step for me Kgun. Firstly being a free site, this would cause me bandwidth cost over income problems. mostly I cater for enthusiasts that spend very little time on the net that are selling or needing parts. It is a fine line to tread providing a free service.
For growth I target eBay sellers and the like. there are thousand of sheds out there full of classic vintage and veteran car parts. I have hardly touched the market potential.
I have never felt the need to side step into a parallel audience, I prefer to plod along and get a firm grip on my chosen target.

In a field full of cows I would aim to be the One bird picking out the worms. I would not want to be a cow trying and scrambling to get what grass has been left by the other cows.

My targeted income hovers around the 0.75 cents per page view, this is a nice workable figure for me, it is comfortable. I can boost it with ad variations. But the above Figure I find to be a nice workable figure. it is not a figure that can be easily threatened. I like that. I do see a boost in that figure during busier months, and I am just starting to feel an upward trend that is probably Christmas coming. d to this a few T shirt sales, and the odd commission, the occasional fee, and income from the photo hosting section. I am content to sit in this chair for a 8 hours everyday until they cart me away Kgun. . I am not after a 'retire in three months outlook'. I need to work! What would I do for my day job?

I think videos are for somebody else. Although www.sumpy.com might include a directory of links to videos at a later stage.

P.S. Lately I have been using a spell check. Kgun gets highlighted anyway. . so If i accidentally write Ggun. . I expect to see it highlighted. . so would not get my attention

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T-ford, I have to be a car mechanic or what do you believe?

not T Ford 'A' Ford. these are not expensive. you can buy plastic body parts even. Your local mechanic will be quite content to work on it. If Ford never made Cars like this in the 30's there would not be Fords on the road today. It was the sheer greatness of these early Fords that told the world What a car was. . If Ford make rubbish Cars in the thirties, they would be just another of the nearly forgot car names of the past.
You would thoroughly enjoy an outing in an A model Kgun. and when you parked it at the display ground people would just open up and talk to you like an old friend, just because you are with it.
Complete strangers will just walk up to you and tell you their life history and the time their grandfather moved a piano from the farm on the back of one "just like it" back in i942. . It's not just a car, It's not just some moulded metal. . .

http://www.restored-classics.com/gla...ford/img17.gif - this one has been uted.(made into a utility vehicle) They did this quite a lot on farms where a tray was needed - chopped off the back and made it a utility vehicle. A lot were original sold like this. a lot were converted. But a great vehicle to do any heavy shopping with. Get one of the local shops to put an oldie type advertising sign on it to help cover the running costs.

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Do you know one of the most beautiful cars I have ever seen, is (since it is still going strong) an old creme yellow Rolls-Royce with black. It reminds me of this one, but it was even more beautiful. The colour was also different. Not so much white in the yellow perhaps.

Here is another that looks more like it in shape, but it is not the same, and the colours are far from the same.

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Hi Tubby!

You asked for something you can use. You should find some ideas here:

I've looked at the main page of the site in three different browsers. In all three of them I see big layout problems... mostly I see text spilling out of boxes and overlaying other text, making both layers unreadable.

From a design point of view, I find the variety of different fonts, font-sizes, and font colors unattractive and distracting.

On the left, "Holden Parts" seems to be a header for the column under it... but the column under it is all links to car clubs. IMHO, there should at very least be a divider between these, and a title for the column of car clubs.

The lists seem un-polished too. In the big list that dominates the center of the screen: Why should "Honda" appear in a bigger font than "Hudson"? Why should "Hupmobile" be indented compared to "Humber"? Why is "parts" sometimes capitalized and sometimes not? Why is there sometimes a period after "parts" and sometimes not?

IMHO, the lists run together logically. You list by make of car, and then out of nowhere (logically) you start listing by types of parts (e.g. "lights", "carpet", "carburetors", etc. Then... again out of nowhere, you list stationary engine parts and tractor parts. (Why are they even on this page? They have nothing to do with the main theme of this page. Why not put them on their own URL and optimize that URL for better search engine results. Then, simply link to them from this URL.)

In the geographical list at right: Why should "Wyoming" be in bold text and "Queensland" not be? It all seems so haphazard, frankly. (If I were you, I probably wouldn't give Wyoming it's own line item. Have you ever been there? It's a wasteland with hardly any cars or people in it... Lots of antelope! A regional line item like "Rocky Mountain Region" might be better.)

You might want to double-check for spelling errors. ("Bently" should be "Bentley", for example.)

In terms of the "craft" of web design, I would encourage at least the following:
1) The description meta tag really should be readable as a description... not just a set of keyword phrases.
2) The CSS content really should be removed to its own file.
3) Have you ever tried to validate your code? Start here: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...d-classics.com 1113 errors must be some kind of record. There's just no conceivable reason not to use a GREAT TOOL like the W3C validator to track down code errors. It's code errors that are causing your text to stack up and be hard to read!

Kgun, That is not a practical car for you. But the look is sooo English - with the large headlights sitting between the front bumpers. the long bonnet and chrome. That was a 'sports' look for the front. with a 'state' look for the rear end.
But. . I would happily park it out the front of my place...

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I see that you offer three Rolls Royces for sale:
http://www.restored-classic.com/rolls-parts/index.html

Pound 7500. That is cheap. I think the price is doubled because of customs when imported to Norway.

What is the value of a brand?

Good navigation there.

I personally liked the above models better.

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I've looked at the main page of the site in three different browsers. In all three of them I see big layout problems... mostly I see text spilling out of boxes and overlaying other text, making both layers unreadable.

Yes. . now you know why I got emails telling me submit my site for review, it is a mess isn't it

From a design point of view, I find the variety of different fonts, font-sizes, and font colors unattractive and distracting.

On the left, "Holden Parts" seems to be a header for the column under it... but the column under it is all links to car clubs. IMHO, there should at very least be a divider between these, and a title for the column of car clubs.

Holden part - Yes I know I am gulty of that. I just poked the link in one day when I moved a page -
I printed your post I stuck it on the pegboard in front of me (its a bit crowded)

The lists seem un-polished too. In the big list that dominates the center of the screen: Why should "Honda" appear in a bigger font than "Hudson"? Why should "Hupmobile" be indented compared to "Humber"? Why is "parts" sometimes capitalized and sometimes not? Why is there sometimes a period after "parts" and sometimes not?

Indented is a reminder to me - period dots tell me that the page is out of date (I remove the dots when updated, when all are update I place dots on the new updates) I Use the page to remind me of things. Bad habit yes (whatever the chevrolet page has is the mostcurrent version. Hupmobile has an older "parts link section the indent reminds me to replace it with the new yellow one, it probably has the older pink one) - Not sure about the capitalisation. that probably a miistake. . I did say the thought of review sends shivers down my back..

IMHO, the lists run together logically. You list by make of car, and then out of nowhere (logically) you start listing by types of parts (e.g. "lights", "carpet", "carburetors", etc. Then... again out of nowhere, you list stationary engine parts and tractor parts. (Why are they even on this page? They have nothing to do with the main theme of this page. Why not put them on their own URL and optimize that URL for better search engine results. Then, simply link to them from this URL.)

lights, carpets, carbys are transitional, I put them together because I find it easier to know where they are there If I bunched them together. I do like these on the one url.

In the geographical list at right: Why should "Wyoming" be in bold text and "Queensland" not be? It all seems so haphazard, frankly. (If I were you, I probably wouldn't give Wyoming it's own line item. Have you ever been there? It's a wasteland with hardly any cars or people in it... Lots of antelope! A regional line item like "Rocky Mountain Region" might be better.)

Wyoming Is not busy. but certainly a place worth listing -
Pierce-Arrow ?- parts for sale - Pierce-Arrow winter front made by Pines. Shows scratches from storage and minor rusting on bottom of back side, not deep enough to pit the metal. The paint around the mounting holes is unmarked, and it appears to have never been used. It came from an estate
auction of a welding ship that closed in the mid fifties and has been in storage since then. I will have e-mailable pictures available after Oct 1stfor anyone who is seriously interested in buying. - Duane J. Dickhaus,
Worland, Wyoming, 82401, United States, phone: 307-388-2973 ,
I have Small Wyoming traffic. I have wyoming listings, I would only ever change it to your sugestion if a user from Wyoming asked me to.
But I am taking this all in
Australian States are not bolded ( I prefer that )
They have a Capitalized Australia - sort of compensates, I think you might have to be me to understand that bit of thinking.

You might want to double-check for spelling errors. ("Bently" should be "Bentley", for example.)

YES! I corrected a 'Wolsely' last week same error missing 'E'

In terms of the "craft" of web design, I would encourage at least the following:
1) The description meta tag really should be readable as a description... not just a set of keyword phrases.

To be truthful it has been years since I looked at the description. . I had forgotten there was one

2) The CSS content really should be removed to its own file.

Yes Webnauts has mentioned this before, This is going to be one of the things I should do - but never will get around to items,

3) Have you ever tried to validate your code? Start here: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...d-classics.com 1113 errors must be some kind of record. There's just no conceivable reason not to use a GREAT TOOL like the W3C validator to track down code errors. It's code errors that are causing your text to stack up and be hard to read!

no I never tried to validate anything. Basically if it looks reasonable in the MS browser I call it done. but "1113 errors" that would stump me totally. where would I start. I would probably need a beer to get over the shock of reading this. . .

Thanks for that mate, I know you were being kind and gentle to me. and I shall find the time to fix 'something' in the list in front of me. And I will make a point of trying to get a screen shot from other browsers to see what I expect my users to put up with. . But they are a good bunch and extremely forgiving, I am lucky to have them. I will also remind myself of my own faults before telling other webmasters what is wrong with there sites when I review them. . (But tell them anyway)

I like layers. I just keep piling them on top of each other. Its the program. It tempts me. but it does seem I have some bad habits

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'Pound 7500. That is cheap. '

No, not cheap Kgun. these are not good cars to work on, not good cars to rally in. not old enough to have any great collector desire, parts are tricky. they gobble up fuel. and the image of owning a new Roller does not transpose to an older model. you cant even chuck a V8 in it and 'hoon'. its a heavy lump to handle, although they do handle quite well.. an Austin seven will draw a bigger crowd, and the driver will get more enjoyment.

A 20's roller, is a little different.

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error fixed

Kgun. on that Rolls Royce page, I thought there was more than the three. There was a link missing to
page 2 where the earlier ads were. . I fixed it!
( Well fixing it now)

( I actually do fix some things)

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I am removing the (cue's) from the page. I always found it a useful trick to remind me. To simply indent a make of vehicle - or add a .. or. to let me know where I was on an update. I never thought anyone would notice little things like this.
They do. . I had used colour coding for several things. but I think in the light of the comments I shall make the swap over. This is not a great task. just a simple matter of creating updated links that are inserted onto each section of the site in a new colour. so whenever I come across an old colour I can simply swap for the latest colour. This means my main page will gradually loose all the 'little clues' I leave myself. and be more consistent.

This will likely save me a few hours as a bonus.
I also added my logo to the page. . It was missing.
I dropped the extra - Holden link.

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CJacobson - Curtis?. . I just took a look at your site http://www.storyboardtoys.com
I loved it - Kids can even create their own coat of arms.

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