Engine Conversions, Tuning, Modding?
Engine Conversions, Tuning, Modding?
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SXS

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3,065 posts

286 months

Monday 29th August 2005
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A few of us got together and thought we needed something a little more and thought it would be great to start a website to go hand in hand with Pistonheads but more dedicated to technical banter, tuning, modding and engine upgrades/conversions and also keep track of our personal project details/pictures etc.

When you sign up, you get your own gallery to upload piccies and create sub-albums etc. Your own blog to let others keep track on your progress. And a forum with a very flexible search facility and also the ability to directly upload images into your posts.

[b]http://www.bhpworld.com[/b]

The site complements the more 'advanced' PH'ers online arsenal. It is a non-profit site and hopefully we'll build a global tuning/techie community there.

So come along and get your project listed and recognised, the information you put up and share will help others and definitely push others in the same direction.

PS. Thanks Ted :thumbup: for supporting us hardcore PH'ers over at BHP World by allowing me to plug the new site, just this once!

David H

809 posts

270 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Woohoo, nice one

I'll upload the pics of my rebuild as soon as I can

daxtojeiro

743 posts

275 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Excellent site, well done, nice news story too
Phil

chassis 33

6,194 posts

311 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Minor glitch (at my end, i dont expect you to fix it!), my anti-virus/net security software (norton) is blocking the logos etc for folders and the like, any quick solutions, other than disabling Norton Internet Security?

This is the first forum its done this to.

Regards
Iain

TallMark

596 posts

256 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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SXS,

Looks good... but only in IE. Firefox renders it very badly.

Just thought you might like to know if you haven't tried it.

Cheers,
Mark

v8 racing

2,064 posts

280 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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good site just registerd!

SXS

Original Poster:

3,065 posts

286 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Thanks fellas, its early days yet, but we'll get there.

I'll look into the folder thing, hmmmm....
already working on the Firefox thing... didnt know Firefox was very popular, it renders quite a few sites poorly.... (anyone out there able to put me in the right direction? it seems to be the frontpage only that goes all funny in firefox)

v8 racing

2,064 posts

280 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Hi sxs i am on firefox and it is working fine?? my anti virus is mcaffee if that makes any difference?

Graham

16,381 posts

313 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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SXS said:
it renders quite a few sites poorly.... (anyone out there able to put me in the right direction? it seems to be the frontpage only that goes all funny in firefox)


More likley firefox renders according to the standards, and microShaft doesnt but everyone codes to micro$haft !!!

does wierd things in my firefox broswer

G

daxtojeiro

743 posts

275 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Firefox works for me too, I think its the very first page thats a bit long in firefox. McCaffee's virus working on it too, if thats how you spell it :-)

SXS

Original Poster:

3,065 posts

286 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Graham said:

SXS said:
it renders quite a few sites poorly.... (anyone out there able to put me in the right direction? it seems to be the frontpage only that goes all funny in firefox)



More likley firefox renders according to the standards, and microShaft doesnt but everyone codes to micro$haft !!!

does wierd things in my firefox broswer

G


I'm stuck, dont have a clue what I'm doing wrong by firefox... can you have a look at the html and let me know??? please???

GreenV8S

31,017 posts

313 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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Using Firefox here, seems to be OK generally, but the BHP World page layout looks screwy. The text "I was lucky enough" etc isn't line wrapped, the box it is in is about a million miles wide, the menu on the left is scrunched up to quarter of an inch wide. If I click on the box, the page changes and the text comes out line wrapped and nicely formatted. I guess the initial page is supposed to show a synopsis of the article not the whole thing?

SXS

Original Poster:

3,065 posts

286 months

Tuesday 30th August 2005
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GreenV8S said:
Using Firefox here, seems to be OK generally, but the BHP World page layout looks screwy. The text "I was lucky enough" etc isn't line wrapped, the box it is in is about a million miles wide, the menu on the left is scrunched up to quarter of an inch wide. If I click on the box, the page changes and the text comes out line wrapped and nicely formatted. I guess the initial page is supposed to show a synopsis of the article not the whole thing?


I was thinking that pete, but I aint got the foggiest here... I just dont get why Microsoft IE would work with it, I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything fancy in there... hmmm... I wont give up till I've sorted it... dont want to ruin firefox users viewing pleasure.....

TallMark

596 posts

256 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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GreenV8S said:
Using Firefox here, seems to be OK generally, but the BHP World page layout looks screwy. The text "I was lucky enough" etc isn't line wrapped, the box it is in is about a million miles wide, the menu on the left is scrunched up to quarter of an inch wide. If I click on the box, the page changes and the text comes out line wrapped and nicely formatted. I guess the initial page is supposed to show a synopsis of the article not the whole thing?


Yup thats exactly what I should have written except I was knackered last night and didn't bother

SXS - if you want to mail me the HTML I can take a look for you. Probably won't have time tonight though but if you can wait I'm more than happy to sort it.

Cheers,
Mark

chassis 33

6,194 posts

311 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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For what its worth, I'm using IE. Checked the site late last night on my friends AOL webthingy and the pages came out fine.

Regards
Iain

SXS

Original Poster:

3,065 posts

286 months

Friday 2nd September 2005
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TallMark said:
SXS - if you want to mail me the HTML I can take a look for you. Probably won't have time tonight though but if you can wait I'm more than happy to sort it.


Mark, I sent the HTML over yesterday, did you get a chance to look at it?

grahamw48

9,944 posts

267 months

Friday 2nd September 2005
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I'm using Firefox, and it's w a a e e e e e e de.

Fine on IE.

(Prefer Mozilla, as less virus risk and popups.)

Good new site though.

dnb

3,330 posts

271 months

Saturday 3rd September 2005
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Working more-or-less OK for me on Firefox now.

Must register when I get a moment... As long as you promise not to laugh at how long it takes me to get things finished!

Pum

270 posts

300 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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Using Firefox, the front page menus are OK now, but the main section does not wrap at the window width and so is about 2 and a bit screens wide when fullscreened on my 1600x1200 monitor

Looking at the source it looks like you're using Mambo to author the pages, with a copyright date of 2000, which is before Firefox came out. Perhaps a newer version will produce Firefox compliant pages, or it may be that it only does Internet Exploder compliant pages

Firefox is pretty popular now; most people I know use it as their primary browser.

tvrbob

11,197 posts

284 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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Best of luck. This site should prove very informative. I like that it will be technical only.