New Look for Car Pages
I’ve updated the car pages to pull a photo up next to the dataplate, with some other minor re-arranging of info to accommodate the change. If you see anything funky, try a browser refresh, though I did change the version number of the CSS file–hopefully you won’t have any trouble. Another change is that browsing cars is no longer a “post data” request, so refreshing the screen isn’t so annoying.
I have tested in IE6, IE7 and Firefox. IE6 sucks, of course, but we persevered. No guarantees on any other browser.
If you’re curious as to why some cars show the photos they do, the software looks for the most recent exterior photo that falls within certain aspect ratios. Failing to find one of those, it looks for the most recent “action” photo within the same parameters. Failing that, it looks for any photo within those parameters. Failing that, it throws its hands in the air and stalks off in a huff.
The parameters are 300 pixels wide or wider; and a height which is between .66 and .77 of the width (a normal horizontal photo is .75).
Browsing cars is much more entertaining, in my opinion.
