Hey all you gurus of Sitespinner, I just wanted to say thanks for having a good forum to look around on and get almost all the answers I needed when building my first website ever. I have a collection of vintage CPUs and other computer related stuff and have always wanted to share it with the world, and now I am. Youre software seems to do everything I was hoping for so far. With a little practice I am sure Ill make you guys proud.I was completely clueless about how to go about it before i started browsing the forums here. You can visit it at

WWW.Chiefish.Com

Again thanks....and if you have any advice as to the way ive got it set up please chime in.

G’day mate, well done.

Just a couple of things that may be of help. I’m not quite sure that I like the large text on your index page (personal opinion only). It is set at 27px, and you appear to have used a non web safe font, Batang, which as far as I can find is a Korean font. It shows up as large Times Roman on my screen.

I would suggest you have a link on your main left hand menu to your “Home” page. As it is, you have the link on the top banner, which may be confusing to some viewers. The link is also active on your index page, which can also be confusing.

The text “Here is a place to share etc” would look better centered on the blue background object.

And lastly (from me anyway), you need to change the title of your index page to “Home” or “Chiefish” or whatever. All of your other pages are okay, except maybe the “proms” title needs capitalizing.

~Off topic - a bit~
Oh happy day! The first CPU I ever designed with was the 8048, then the 8085 and then the 80186 running four screens with CCPM sort of pre-windows windows and all with 64K Dram with 2708 EPROMS for the BIOS

With registered segmented addressing we had 3d address space and used to look down upon designers using the Zilog Z80 as the flat earth society using purely linear addressing.

Anyway so much for the vacation down memory lane (Ha punny!) Great job with your first site visually nice and interesting, got a real parts bin look about it which appeals. the text is waaayyy too big, I'd suggest 12pt max and like Postyr said, stick to a websafe (WS) font, look for WS in the font selector in the text editor, that way you can guarantee that everyone will have it.

It'd be nice to get some biographic data about the chips, their designers etc, years in production from when to when, quantity made etc, perhaps record the experiences of old gits like me who designed with them back in the day.

I'd contact doc@dr-bellend.com and get a link there, real geek site

Good job. thanks for the happy reminiscences

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used to look down upon designers using the Zilog Z80 as the flat earth society using purely linear addressing.

And where would the world be today without us 8080 and Z80 developers? Remember that CPM, the grand-daddy of micro-operating systems was developed with 8080 and Z80 in mind.

Always friendly rivalry.

My boss at the time started as a Z80 developer. Actually he started with the SCMP which we really did take the whatsit out of, 4bytes of ram expandable to 8bytes.

It really was the undiscovered country in those days, everything was new and we made it up as we went along. Writing in assembler made for excellent tight efficient code. My first proj was an air conditioning controller for an automobile which sat in 1k of Eprom on the 8748, later we had an X25 controller controlling 8 'pc's' and and multiplexing synchonously to a comms line in real time using an 8085 with 16K of prom.

Not like the bloat-ware of today, but look what we can do with it! Truly amazing.

It was real fun then but I'd rather be in today, much more fun!

My first was a Digital Group Z-80 kit. Took me 3 months to build. Good thing I knew how to solder. Only 2K memory. When I got my first floppy disks (dual 8-inch Seagate, 256K storage), I had to write my own DOS. This was pre-CPM era.

It was fun then, but I agree, we can do so much more now.

Hey Thanks for all the great replies, I have changed the home page link and added it to all pages, and I will change the font to somthing more websafe.

It didnt look too big on my 24 inch wide screen, actually it still looks small to normal, but ill look at it with a few different computers from my friends houses and work and stuff and get a better idea of its size. Yea the memories of the old stuff is fun to talk about and remember, but I am glad we have progressed past that stuff and it doesnt take 5 minutes for a web page to load now.

I will be adding more data about the chips as time passes, I just never knew it took so much time to get all this put together and looking good, But i noticed one of the good things about sitespinner is I can work on it and just update the pages Ive changed after making them.

As this is just the birth of my site there will be many changes occurring in the future so it should evolve nicely.

I apologize for hi-jacking your thread and reminiscing.

Oh please , You dont have do apoligize to me about B.S.ing about chips and stuff, I would be the last guy to complain heh heh heh .
Im uploading the changes now so it will be done in a few minutes. You want an old Z80 chip or somthing I have plenty of spares that I keep for trading with other people around the world. Ide be glad to mail ya one for old time sake.

Its kind of funny that the Space Shuttles still use a C8086 in its computers in space.

I ahve made lots of updates recently, tell me what ya think about the new fonts I have used. Also added the home link back on and centered all the things I could find off a bit.
I tried having music play while you browsed , but I think theres too much different tastes to leave that and not be turning people off with it. As well as the fact that I had to make aa new page popup to browse in order to not have to reload the songs every time you changed pages.