Damn website

Franky · 24-04-2005, 10:05 PM

Some of you may remember a little while back when I had grand plans of doing a website as a kind of tribute to Ford Australia. Well months on and I havn't achieved anything and my thoughts now turn to any of you guys with the knowledge at hand :eclipsee_

If anyone wants any input please let me know

Steffo · 24-04-2005, 10:52 PM

I used to have my own Ford Australia website in the AUIII Falcon days. Was at www.australianford.cjb.net (its not up now). Had a bunch of AUIII Falcon vs VXII Commodore articles, EL GT vs HSV GTS 220i article, a XR GT - AUIII TE50 sports Falcon history and some previews of the upcoming (at the time) "AV" Falcon, and the roumoured AV Falcon GT with 374kW/700Nm 5.4litre V8 (was a nice roumour....).

If you want any help, or any information.. feel free to PM me or email me or add me to msn (my msn addy is in my public profile).

Franky · 24-04-2005, 10:56 PM

Cheers for the quick reply Steffo, I'll send you an email sometime tomorrow so you get the idea of what it's about. the URL is still www.geocities.com/makaa_04 which is just for testing/viewing ect but you get the idea of the layout and what content will be on it

Franky · 25-04-2005, 01:46 PM

Does anybody have a ford book that is full of info about the history of the Falcon? When I was in Melbourne I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.

Casper · 25-04-2005, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

Does anybody have a ford book that is full of info about the history of the Falcon? When I was in Melbourne I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.

Might be worth starting it as something small focused on a particular thing. I did that with aufalcon.com and it kind of grew from there.

Franky · 25-04-2005, 02:15 PM

Yeah that was the idea I had Casper but the little thing seems to be a bit bigger. I am planning to start off with the falcon then move on to the rest of the models i.e fairlanes, gts ect

loxxr6 · 25-04-2005, 02:21 PM

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Does anybody have a ford book that is full of info about the history of the Falcon? When I was in Melbourne I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.

Not a history, but Ewan Kennedy's book on Ford Falcon in Australia (blue hardcover with a GT on the front - its at home so I can't give you the exact title) has stacks of figures, picks and info. It wrapped up at the EF/EL (?) series.

Casper · 25-04-2005, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

Yeah that was the idea I had Casper but the little thing seems to be a bit bigger. I am planning to start off with the falcon then move on to the rest of the models i.e fairlanes, gts ect

Maybe look at starting a little smaller. Its not easy to just get a full on site up and going. Aufalcon.com is a slow evolution and is still far from a complete web site.

wulos · 25-04-2005, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by loxxr6

Not a history, but Ewan Kennedy's book on Ford Falcon in Australia (blue hardcover with a GT on the front - its at home so I can't give you the exact title) has stacks of figures, picks and info. It wrapped up at the EF/EL (?) series.

lol - the 1st sediton was...
The 2nd edition has been out for prob 6-12 months now & goes right up to & including the BA falcon/fairlane. We also released a book on the history of the GT / GTHO as well
If people are interested I can get both these titles, with a discount for AFF members(discount would basically cover the postage & handling, unless you wanted to pick them up off me personally)

Dez · 25-04-2005, 07:55 PM

what you have up already looks fantastic mate....just a shame its on yahoo, which ruins the look of it....but you probably would be moving it once it was all go etc...good luck with it

K_Man · 25-04-2005, 08:25 PM

There's a really good book floating around the Monash libraries (Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley and Wheelers Hill i think) called 'The Ford Falcon Story' which went into detail about each model, how and why they were designed the way they were etc. etc. wrapped up with the EA i think, so it's an older book, but a very good read.

Casper · 25-04-2005, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by K_Man

There's a really good book floating around the Monash libraries (Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley and Wheelers Hill i think) called 'The Ford Falcon Story' which went into detail about each model, how and why they were designed the way they were etc. etc. wrapped up with the EA i think, so it's an older book, but a very good read.

Tis a good book, I have it.

Franky · 25-04-2005, 08:41 PM

yeah I hired that book but unfortuately they havn't released a new one with the newer models

Thanks for the good words Dez, yes once I finish it i'll host it up properly

trueblue · 26-04-2005, 05:06 PM

www.fordsrule.com

Dez · 26-04-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by EaGhIa

www.fordsrule.com

is that your site?

just a suggestion...on the opening page, dark blue on black, you can hardly see the link to enter without logging in :P

loxxr6 · 26-04-2005, 10:29 PM

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lol - the 1st sediton was...
The 2nd edition has been out for prob 6-12 months now & goes right up to & including the BA falcon/fairlane. We also released a book on the history of the GT / GTHO as well
If people are interested I can get both these titles, with a discount for AFF members(discount would basically cover the postage & handling, unless you wanted to pick them up off me personally)

Do you work for the publishing company that releases it ?

I wouldn't mind checking the new edition myself as I purchased the first edition ages and ages ago.

Tornado · 26-04-2005, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

Cheers for the quick reply Steffo, I'll send you an email sometime tomorrow so you get the idea of what it's about. the URL is still www.geocities.com/makaa_04 which is just for testing/viewing ect but you get the idea of the layout and what content will be on it

Your dates wrong for the end of the AU and start of the BA.
You have 2000, it should be 2002

Franky · 28-04-2005, 02:35 PM

well there ya go, no point even having a site after seeing that one, kinda covers it all

Perana · 28-04-2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by EaGhIa

www.fordsrule.com

I notice there is a link to AFF in there :P

Not a bad site too :P

Franky · 05-05-2005, 12:07 AM

What did you use to make the drop-down menus Casper?

(in the T-Series section ;))

Tornado · 05-05-2005, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Devil Racer

What did you use to make the drop-down menus Casper?

(in the T-Series section ;))

The T-Series section is actually my web site that has been linked to from aufalcon.com, the menus have been done in java code, but i didn't do the coding.

From the source code:
[HTML]
<head>
<title>Tickford T-Series - Main Page</title>
<script language="javascript" src="sniffer.js">

//Top Navigational Bar III v3.4.1.1b (By BrotherCake @ cake@brothercake.net)
//Permission granted/modified by Dynamicdrive.com to include script in archive
//For this and 100's more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
//This notice MUST stay intact for legal use

</script>
<script language="javascript1.2" src="custom.js"></script>
<script language="javascript1.2" src="style.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>

</head>
[/HTML]

Franky · 05-05-2005, 12:38 AM

Thanks for that ;)