NEW UKCRA WEBSITE
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Category: Multihulls
Forum Name: Dinghy multihulls
Forum Discription: For those who prefer two (or more) hulls to one!
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Topic: NEW UKCRA WEBSITE
Posted By: Catsrule
Subject: NEW UKCRA WEBSITE
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 12:01am
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Hi All just wanted to hear comments on new Catamaran.co.uk website, Carl
has worked long and hard on this, he needs photos and more content. We all owe him some thanks, he's going to try hard to liase with all to arrange sailing calendar with less overlap between classes next year. COMMENTS!! Grant Piggott ------------- There's no such thing as bad day on the water!! |
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Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 8:15am
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Replace that picture on the home page, it's terrible and lets down the rest of the site. The horizon should be 'nearly' straight.
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 8:25am
I dunno. The strong diagonal line the horizon creates across the page gives quite a striking effect. I think you can make a case for it... |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 9:15am
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There's a typo on the "Introduction to.." page. The email
address at the bottom is misspelled. Other than that god work! ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: CatWebmistress
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 11:03am
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Hello All,
Thanks for all the comments. Contrary to popular belief, It is I, Carl's better half who is responsible for the design of the new UKCRA website, with of course, Carl's input. Hope you all like the new site, it has taken ages to rebuild, and as you can see, there's still a long way to go. We're hoping to make it a really active site so welcome contributions. bigwavedave, I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree on that photo, I think it's a blinding shot, the angles are dynamic and I love the perspective, with the water splashing in the foreground gives it a real sense of movement. In web design we generally don't use levels and plumb lines... 
As a matter of interest the photos will be changing regularly, if you have any photos you think would work, please send them in with permissions and I'm happy to credit. English Dave, thanks missed that one. Much of the information was harvested from the old site which had not been updated in years so If you find any errors, omissions, or just plain wrong information I am sure you will all bring it to my attention. Look forward to all your input. |
Posted By: catmandoo
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 1:01pm
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Congrats
and many thanks for all your hard work .
How about a multihull only forum and ban folks who have nothing more constructive to say than discuss the merits of horizon angles in a photo ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 1:30pm
Opinions were specifically requested. You can accept or reject them as you like, but its pretty dumb to complain if they are offered in response to the request... |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 1:46pm
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technical point- get the server set up so that entering Catamaran.co.uk doesn't return an error (unless you set up your browser to automatically add www. at the beginning). At the moment only www.catamaran.co.uk works. It should be fairly easy to do. Always, always make it as easy as possible to get to! Don't just say "oh, people should just add the www" or "people should configure their browsers"- you said the site was catamaran.co.uk, so http://catamaran.co.uk should be a valid address! ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 2:56pm
How about you take your head out from up your arse. He asked for comments, and I gave my opinion. -------------
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Posted By: a_dowley
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 3:25pm
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Everyone wants to moan but no one wants to take on the job. Well done guys, fantastic job! Cheers Andrew ------------- https://www.sailingchandlery.com/rope-for-sale.html" rel="nofollow - Rope for sale https://www.sailingchandlery.com" rel="nofollow - Sailing Chandlery - Online Chandlery - Number 1 Rated |
Posted By: oz man
Date Posted: 04 Jul 09 at 5:05pm
| hi guys calm down i think mr doo was jesting!! |
Posted By: CatWebmistress
Date Posted: 06 Jul 09 at 1:33pm
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, this issue is now fixed. |
Posted By: Shadowman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 09 at 8:32am
| Great job - only comment is that I found some of the text very difficult to read against the background of the pics. Great improvement though. |
Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 10 Jul 09 at 10:02am
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Nice site. Classes well represented in the photo's. It would be good to see some postings of news from events - but thats probably were class associations or clubs need encouragement to take part. A forum may be useful. ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Jul 09 at 5:56pm
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I like the picture, though I do wonder why all the water hasn't run off the right hand side of the page...maybe it is the lake with a slope that water skiers have been looking for for so long! Nice site, by the way. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 11 Jul 09 at 3:11pm
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Hi Nice job on the website. I have a few inputs to make which are too petty to list here. What is the E mail address to send them to? Cheers Bob |