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Hi,
I made a web site for my 150 that is for sale. If any one would like to take a look it is www.cyberwc.net/~asaucier [cyberwc.net] any idears to make the site better would be helpfull. It is my first site. AL

Very well done. Good luck selling your plane.

It is well done! Plenty of information, and up front and honest. It should sell quickly! All you need is some exposure to the site (barnstormers? TAP?).

I agree. I wish everyone selling a plane provided that much info! The logbooks, especially, are a very nice touch.

But, since you asked, here's my two-cents about the site:

That first picture on the page is a great shot of the plane, But, as it is, the browser has to download the entire, 1.5 Meg, full-size photo, then shrink it down for display. The page would load much faster and use less bandwidth, if you made a special 590x390 version of the pic and used that instead. Dial-up modem users will thank you!

Also, the link for that photo is pointing to your own hard drive, not your web server. So we can't actually click on it to see the full-sized picture.

Finally, the background makes the blue text (like the logbook links and the link to the video--they're blue prior to being visited) very hard to read. If you have something like Photoshop, you could go in and lighten the background image a bunch. Or just skip it altogether and go for a plain, white or light-grey background instead of an image. (You could also change the color used for non-visited link text, but I'd strongly advise against that.)

Good luck!

- Jeff

P.S. Looks more than a little like Stephen Mayotte's site [home.comcast.net], don't it?

Thank you for all the idears. I have made the changes with the picture. I hope that I did it right so it will load faster. I have dial up and did know it was a slow loader but did not know how to change it. I did look at Stephen Mayotte's site to get a idear on what a good site would look like and also how a web site worked deep inside. Thanks for the help AL

Hey,

Nice website, I thinks its good.

One question though, and not related to the website as such, but I have a 150G and looking at the ASI, DI and AH we have the same. Whats interesting is we also have the same panel cut out below the DI. Are these DI's not standard or something , just found it funny that my panel looks exatly the same in this regard???

Here is a picture to compare with
Cheers

Thats easy, the airplane originally was equipped from the factory with AN type gyros. The heading indicator/directional gyro/directional indicator, whatever you want to call it (I call it a DG) was a type with a face that resembled the compass, with a horizontal drum, instead of the vertical card of the modern DG. It was not the full face type. The original AN type DG has a smaller than normal face with a caging and reset know well below the face. People will open up the cutout in the panel and install a full face, standard size 3-1/8" DG in its place. This leaves the hole in the panel below the face and if you look at the plastic, the hole in it around the face has been opened up to this size.

The AN horizon gyro/attitude indicator is much larger than a standard 3-1/8" insturment and requires a filler plate to mount a modern attitude gyro in the place of the old AN instrument.

Look in your parts book, you will see what I mean, regarding the appearance of the old gyros.

Thanks Charles,

Figured it had to be something simple, I've just never researched it before on the 150G model in regard to the older instruments, although it should have clicked before now as I used to own an "E" model 20 something years ago which had the old style instruments in it, although no AH.

Cheers