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 Fixed remaining issues. Site now fully functional!  7/28/2010  
by: Jason
The new site is now fully functional!

Be sure and try the Browse Types, List Car Names, They all have new scaled pictures thumnails of the cars so it is easier to see what cars you are looking at on the site.

Be sure and try the new ability to navigate through all the cars of a certain type on the specific car pages.

Be sure and take a look at the Truck US, Porsche 959, Porsche 911 Closed Top (to see text on the back window of one of the porsche cars: 1668-053), as some of the cars have high resolution images that will display automatically if available.

I fixed the active user display there was a separate script that didn't get uploaded with the new site upload. I also added some asp code to manually move to a random record since the SQL code does not run correctly on my server.

I cleaned up a few graphics and re-added the custom icon for the favorites menu, and webpage tabs.

The new site doesn't have most of the new technologies I wanted to implement which would be similar to the german site www.dardamania.de. Those technologies will have to wait for the personal portfolio site I plan to create next. The new Darda Collector site has many new useful interface modifications that making finding the cars you are looking for a bit easier. The scalability to higher resolutions was an important feature I was happy to be able to implement.

I also wanted to maintain the ability to view the website on an Iphone.

Enjoy finding your Darda Cars!

Jason.
 
 New Site Live!  7/27/2010  
by: Jason
Welcome to the new look of the Darda Collectors' Network!

I cleaned up the old files on the server and uploaded the new site. There are some known errors still:

There are some permission errors for the active users again.
The script permissions for the random picture on the home page.
Image scaling display differs in Internet Explorer.
 
 New McLaren F1  7/26/2010  
by: Jason
Added a new black McLaren F1 (1629-052)  
 Auto resizing thumbnails in firefox browser.  7/22/2010  
by: Jason
I fine tuned the display of the auto-resize pages a little, and added auto-resize on the thumbnail views. It does not function properly in internet explorer though. I might have to add code to detect the browsers and not use that code, later.  
 New Auto-expanding home page.  7/21/2010  
by: Jason
Added a new auto expanding page to fit the browser resolution. I am not totally happy with the readability of the larger resolutions cause it stretches out everything so far apart. The Graphics on the top banner will probably need some fine tuning. So some fine tuning might be necessary. Here is a link to the new page on the beta site. It will probably go live next week some time with fine tuning later.

New Expanding Page on beta site.
 
 New Formula 1 Ultra-speed  7/19/2010  
by: Jason
Added a new white Formula 1 Ultra-speed (1621-071).  
 Updated display of Ferrari GTO.  6/21/2010  
by: Jason
I adjusted the displayed data to show the different colored windows for the Ferrari GTO.  
 Added a new Van Ambulance today.  6/21/2010  
by: Jason
Added a new Van Ambulance (1900-1W1) today that was missing from the database.  
 New Porsche verified today.  6/16/2010  
by: Jason
Added a new Porsche 911 Closed Top (1668-053). It has darda-racing on the back window.  
 Updated the Darda History Section.  6/16/2010  
by: Jason
I also updated the Darda History Section to include the two sales of Darda Inc, USA since the year 2000.

Here is another link to the beta site.