New Era for CarAdvice
September 26, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Well guys and girls, it’s here, our new website which has been in the workshop for the last few months, has finally gone live. The update marks a new beginning for CarAdvice.com.au.
Having started the site as a humble part-time blog back in 2006, CarAdvice has grown beyond our wildest imaginations and has become one of Australia’s largest car websites with over 15,000 Unique Visitors daily.
Now with a team of full-time writers, CarAdvice has set its aims higher than ever. Not to worry though, we haven’t lost the humbleness and we are still here because we love cars, and believe the industry can do with a little less paid reporting.
In the next 6 months and beyond our network will expand into bikes, user reviews on new cars, modified cars, 4WDs and a whole lot more.
From me personally, as well as all seven of us here at CarAdvice, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our readers.
Some of you have been here since the very beginning and some of you have recently discovered our site, whatever the case may be, our website grows only on word of mouth, and your continued support has been tremendous.
On a more technical note, initially there may be some small issues here and there but they will be fixed in the next few days, please leave a comment with any issues that you have regarding the new design.
There are also some known issues with Internet Explorer 6, which is unable to see the full list of featured articles, so we beg all of you still using IE6 to either upgrade to IE7 or better yet, use Firefox.
A big thanks to Kojo Interactive for the unreal website.
Alborz.
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Love your work fellas, keep it up.
Excellent job, makes it easy to come back, I hope you do start motorcycle blogs as well, being an enthusiast of them.
Firstly, I would like to say the new site looks mint!
Only thing is, it doesn’t format correctly in Opera web browser v9.23 build 8088.
the graphincs are all fine, just the text in the “Latest news” section seems to be not neatly aligned.
Great effort!
Cheers,
Ross
Fabulous update guys,well done to the web designers!
Hey you can see Alborz in the photo with the Aston and the workmen! That would have been a great week for you Alborz rain or not!
Congrats guys, keep up the great work.
Didn’t have a problem with how it was, but great to see the new look.
Well done.
Great job guys! I love that you’ve kept the basics in the revamp. I love the simplicity of it, all on the one page, it’s great!
Well done guys, looks great. A proper designed site always helps to shake off that “just a blog” image, and you’ve done well with the design!
GREAT stuff guys
my first stop everytime i turn on my computer
looking foward to reviews on bikes!!!
keep up the good work guys!
Excellent work guys,
I am glad this site exists, so sick of all the bs the other guys publish, I can actually read something here and know it wasnt paid for by the car company!
Although I did notice the TRD ads dissapeared right after you guys bad mouthed the TRD Aurion! What was the deal there?
I bought my Golf R32 after reading the review on this site and haven’t stopped coming back since.
Keep it up and stay true to what made you popular, honesty!
This looks really schmick guys. Has a very ‘professional’ look to it now.
Now, where’s my nudity! :)
LoL… your right Grumps not enough nudity, hooters and tassie maps is alway’s a good stress relief….
Still waiting for you Grumps to go first!
Tassie maps,havent you heard of Brazil?
Hey I think you guy’s are up there among the top auto sites, far better than the lackluster drive dudes who are so opinionated with some of their views, it would be great to hear your view on a Renault Megane R26, I loved the pictures from frankfurt, and the site looks fine in Safari 2.0.4 on a mac…
Keep up the balanced, level reviews and try to keep the tits and ass stuff away from your site… men and women like cars, this is a site about cars, the passion, the aesthetic appeal, how they drive, why would a woman what to see tits next to a WRX when shes reading a review and may like a wrx without the added visual extras, they are 50% of the market, well maybe more these days…
Keep up the good work…
One other point, like the steering wheels to rate a car, can you have a logo to say if the car company sponsored your trip to review the car… that way we know the angle your reviewing the car under… makes it easy action to keep things out in the open…
Volks all cars that we review are given to us by Car Companies, we don’t privately source cars for road tests –
but we are in no obligation to say anything good about any of the cars, hence why some are good reviews and some are bad.
Looks great, Congrats. I’ve launched a few new sites myself and understand the effort that goes into the smallest details. But to be honest it’s not the looks but the content that keeps me coming back, keep it up.
Grumps, there is plenty of nudity, the website is draped in Aston Martin DBS – that is car porn.
Here,here.
What I like most is the more popular and well renowned this is the more attention can be called to the Speed Camera foolishness.
More power to you.
Your site is a must look on a daily basis. New site looks very stylish. Keep up the good work.
>> # Bavarian Missile Says:
>> September 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
>> Here,here.
Where where?
You did an awesome job cleaning up the links below the article. The site is looking fantastic. I still cannot get over the hot aston martin DBS at the bottom of the page!lol :)
Well I got to hand it to you guys, what an update! The website looks 10 times hotter (esp. with the DBS ;))and is so much easier to use!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers, Ben
perhaps another worthwhile edition would be to have reviews on some older cars for people who are buying second hand?
Only problem I have found in the last 24 hours since we got it,is that it takes longer to load you post,and links that are sent to the moderator are being lost. Is this a hickup?
Ditto as Missile he beat me to it!
Hi Nick, unfortunately there are just so many new cars at the moment that we dont have the capacity to start looking at older cars.
Bavarian, yes the slow down is partly due to all the extra things your browser loads, hmm.. not too much we can do without taking out functionality, it loads a lot faster in newer browsers.
As for comments not being approved, all of sudden we have been hit by a flood of new comments with links in them (lots of them pointing to other aus car websites) which we believe are spam, as they are all from a few people, working through all the good and bad,
What we might do, is have it so that registered users dont have to wait for their comments to be approved…
Hey Alborz,
I think i have met you this year when you where looking at the XR4 in Brisbane. Either that or someone with the same name as you did.
This is an excellent site and you get more info than even us in dealers get.
Keep it up
AHHHH.Klink Im a she not a he,at least I was the last time I looked.
Thanks Alborz ! The add I downloaded from You Tube on the NZ saftey thing with Ford didn’t come through,I thought it would have been interesting,it went with the Story I read on the subject. I have made 2 posts in the last 1/2 hour that still havent come up and no link?
Hey can anyone at Caradvice fix a problem with the site. i know it may be petty, but i was used to having the little icon in my favourites menu so as to easily see the right one to click but when you changed the site it got deleted as i don’t beleive your website designer put it back into the site.
i know it is petty but i love these little gimicky things.
I have been away for a few days, then I come back to this site and I noticed it had a black background, but it takes longer for new posts to come to the “live Comments” menu. Will this change?
Thanks Me for pointing out the delayed live comments, was not aware, will see to it
fixed
Yep thats what I was getting frustrated at last night, at one time the live comments stayed the same for 2 hours!
Thanks for looking in to it Alborz.
I have an idea for the site,is it possible to make Car Advice your home page ?
Barvarian,
The way to do this to go into internet option if you using IE7 and type the address into the home page section
I love this website but for the girls, have you checked out http://www.autochic.com.au? Loads of tips and car advice for women when they go to buy a car and very stylish. One of the best auto sites around I reckon. Great looking site too.
I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer to get to this site. I think it’s IE7 but it’s certanly later than IE6 and this site it exactly the same on firefox. And with IE7, you put the mouse over a smiley, it shows how to do it while Firefox doesn’t do it.
I showed someone who uses IE6 this site and the only difference I noticed was “features”, “live comments”, etc. on the right hand side was further down the page.
….But the good thing about Firefox over IE7 is the anti-spam words are recorded, so when you just put the first letter of the word, it shows it so you can save a little time.