A new Ariel website- feedback and suggestions

[carbonsoup]

www.carbonsoup.com/a97triumph

Here is the beta release of my new Ariel (#97) Triumph website. I still have a ton of content to insert and edit, so please excuse the lack there of, however please give me feed back on what I have available, site structure and suggestions. I would really appreciate it!

Once i have, most of it sorted out and uploaded I will move the site to a permanent domain.

[carbonsoup]

nothing? really? i realize this is beta, but...

[ebb]

[We may be having problems here with local computers]
but your blue line comes up blank for me.
And this is the first time I've seen your thread.

[carbonsoup]

[We may be having problems here with local computers]
but your blue line comes up blank for me.

hmm. i have been using multiple web browsers to test. i havent encountered this.

what web browser are you using? version?

[ebb]

[it was 'my' browser that was off somewhere]

Matt, yes, I did happen to find a long series of photos and cads somehow before,
but it must have been your prompt to a fotosite?
Great shots with your wonderful curves and mystery thrown in.
Can you arrange pix in their time line
so we enjoy discovering the spaces inside the Ariel with you?
I've done the same, but didn't take shots when I should have.

Really, it's enjoyable, for instance, to see how the extension hole for feet in the main
bulkhead takes shape, becomes larger, more shapely & comfortable as time goes on.
Can imagine you testing it for fit, cutting more here and maybe a little there until it's right.
Putting time shots in a series makes a story.
It great to see the interior growing and changing.

Others contemplating their creative remodel can see improvisation at work.
Even tho there's obiously a plan, a vision, things can change. You have
to have courage to change things, move stuff, remove stuff, get the furniture right!
Let the boat speak, "hey budd, a little more here, and little less over there."

Eyes play tricks. Sometimes the interior seems quite large - other times
how incredibly small the accomadations are going to be!
You obviously enjoy playing with spaces, and your ideas and craftmanship
and great photos are a pleasure to see.


It might be fun to personalize that Triumph logo.
The rocking line under the word begs to be tuned up.

Suppose you removed the R > H curve
to see how the underwater profile of the Ariel will look in its place?

Some part of the Alberg patent underbody.
Or maybe the Ariel's waterline can underline TRIUMPH, and the body profile
be drawn underneath.......connecting R and H
As you say, keeping the font, which is really a nice one .
Imco the logo color can come across, along with a checkered flag.
Nauticalizing the well known logo without really changing it.

Think it's an appropriate name for your boat.
Maybe adding a little nautical oumph would do the trick.

:DJust fooling around!

[carbonsoup]

so we enjoy discovering the spaces inside the Ariel with you?
I've done the same, but didn't take shots when I should have.

Really, it's enjoyable, for instance, to see how the extension hole for feet in the main
bulkhead takes shape, becomes larger, more shapely & comfortable as time goes on.
Can imagine you testing it for fit, cutting more here and maybe a little there until it's right.
Putting time shots in a series makes a story.
It great to see the interior growing and changing.

Others contemplating their creative remodel can see improvisation at work.
Even tho there's obiously a plan, a vision, things can change. You have
to have courage to change things, move stuff, remove stuff, get the furniture right!
Let the boat speak, "hey budd, a little more here, and little less over there."

Eyes play tricks. Sometimes the interior seems quite large - other times
how incredibly small the accomadations are going to be!
You obviously enjoy playing with spaces, and your ideas and craftmanship
and great photos are a pleasure to see.


YES. thanks for helping me NOT to forget this.... gosh, getting so involved in a project has the glass lens effect of magnifying and blurring, however one of the most important things that I wanted to tell people about was the evolution of the design. The compromises and the revisions necessary to make a solution work. Though I want to help people with some specificity, I am not trying to make a 'how to', as there are lot of other website that can describe how to fiberglass. Rather I wanted to describe 'how it might happen'.

[carbonsoup]

i reworked the site making sure to tie in the process and evolution of the designs. I also tried some new graphics, however the ariel/pearson cast emblem didnt really fit how i had hoped... i thought you might all enjoy...
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q692/a97triumph/Ariel/Ariel-emblem-2_zpsd8d4a939.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/a97triumph/media/Ariel/Ariel-emblem-2_zpsd8d4a939.jpg.html)