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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:02 PM
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This is a project I started almost exactly a year ago now with the idea of selling photos to participants at track days, without them being restricted to buying small prints and reducing costs to both myself and the customer in media/postage etc.

Anywhere here is the first 'ready' version, let me know what you think I made it all myself from scratch and had to learn every technology behind it from scratch

http://www.trackdayphoto.co.uk

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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:34 PM
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Very well set out Phil.

very good pics aswell.



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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:35 PM
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looks spot on just need to get yourself to a few more track days and cross promote it on as many sites as you can.

You may want to do a deal with a photo printing company like that snapfish so people can get them professionally printed.
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:36 PM
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fair play mate

some nice pics on there

nice to se some sideways pics round bends aswell

ver good mate
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:36 PM
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BTTT for Mr Sherwin..................good website

The search facility is not working yet......

Phil, the best photo I've seen of yours (IMO of course) was at the POD......the moody black & white one of the nose/front of the Ferrari 360 in the cue for the 1/4 mile run.........Class pic
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:40 PM
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long way off yet phil but are you interested in doing this for croft in 2006?
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:47 PM
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looks very good to me phil,,,
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i always like a "next page" botton when going through lots of different pages,
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 03:58 PM
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finally got there
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i always like a "next page" botton when going through lots of different pages,

that would be nice to have.



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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:05 PM
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great idea!
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:09 PM
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Just a idea can you put it in your siggy?
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:29 PM
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Cant view it on this pc for some gay reason

Will have a look when im home next
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:34 PM
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very good , you got one of me the mk2 xr2
keep it up got you in my favortites now for future referance
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:49 PM
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Great site mate nice clean simple and brilliant pictures
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 04:57 PM
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Looks excellent Phil!

Best of luck with it, and of course I expect decent discount by being your most loyal supporter
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 05:06 PM
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Thanks for the feedback people, much appreciated after a lot of hard work!

Do the pictures look ok to everyone? Some early testing feedback I received (from my mother ) was that the pictures appear too dark on her screen. Obviously this is a monitor setup issue but I was windering how widespread it is.

Doug, the search facility does work but I haven't entered any descriptions in the pictures yet. I wasn't sure on the time spent describing hundreds of photos against whther people really need it if they know what event they were at. I think I need to work something out on that front anyway, just not entirely sure what yet

Matt, Croft would be fine i'm sure.

Gareth, I was thinking much the same, there will be a next and previous button appearing sometime soon

Rad, whats the pc you are on? What error do you get? It should work on all PCs really

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Biscuittin, from what event?
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 05:08 PM
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Only suggestion that I've seen on other sites is the ability to search for your car more easily.

Say you have 15 pages like National Day Saturday - possibly list them by colour group as well, or some sort of shortcut to find it easier than having to go through each page one at a time.
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 05:10 PM
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Phil im on base and in an education centre so most web sites are blocked

I had to ask the Manager of the suite to un-ban passionford

Will be ok when im home next, its not your site
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very well sorted
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 09:12 PM
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looks tops to me!

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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 08:53 AM
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Phil,
Gareth, I was thinking much the same, there will be a next and previous button appearing sometime soon
i knew you would have it sorted mate
very good,, love your photo skills,,,
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Number plate search?
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 01:45 PM
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GOT2BZETEC, unfortunately that would take days and days to sort for each event as it would be all manual and a lot of track cars dont have number plates anyway! Considering at best it will probably only make enough money to cover my fuel to and from a track day and nothing else I need to minimise the time on it!!
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 01:59 PM
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nice one youth
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Old Sep 19, 2005 | 01:08 PM
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Done the next and previous buttons just for you Gareth mate

I have problems with it going slow on my PC but i've had loads of people try it and it loads instantly Can't figure it out
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Old Sep 19, 2005 | 01:14 PM
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Very good Phil..

I had a look last night on my friends PC that isnt controlled
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Old Sep 19, 2005 | 01:21 PM
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Cheers Rad, comments like that make all thew effort worthwhile
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Bob on Phil, good concept well excecuted, best of luck with it!
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Originally Posted by Phil
Cheers Rad, comments like that make all thew effort worthwhile

Defo worth while
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Looks good mate, but as above, they need to be split into smaller catagories - even if it's just on the time cars were on track (I guess you might even be able to do it automatically from the date stamp on the file?)

Good luck with it
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