Hi all...

i have a mate who wants to start a custom number plate buisness...

he's after a site where people can type in the number plate of their choice, with choice of font, and badge image. And for the final design to be visible once they have finished creating their plate, before they press submit!!!????

I've been out of this game for a long time now, and need help on the basics of this design!!!!

 

I know it will involve using flash for the trickery of it all.........

An example of something i'de like to aim for can be found at plate builder

Any help would be FANTASTIC!!!

 

Many thanks

 

Mat

Please help

 

Im lost!!

Well the obvious thing to do is use a div with a background image and then have the type go over the top in a styled fashion and also add the badge into the image holder...

 

 

html:
<div id="number-plate">
<p class="my-number">T3RRY1</p>
</div>

css:
#number-plate
{
background: url("number-plate-image") no-repeat;
width:400px;
height:150px;
}

.my-number
{
font-family:Arial;
font-size:24px;
}

 

Then using a bit of Ajax you could set the <p class="my-number"> text box to display what it is in the users input box.

 

Make sense?

What kind of design support do you need? Technical or look and feel?

 

Sounds like some kind of simple AJAX/PHP powered imagery is needed. There's only so many letters and numbers you can have, and only in a set sequence, so wouldn't be too hard to take the input from the user and render an appropriate set of images on that basis (such as: http://www.fancyplates.com/). Try this: http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/php-text...mage-converter/.

 

Or maybe something simpler that output the users' text onto a background image (via PHP or suchlike) wit the option to choose a background image/badge.

 

Incidentally you cannot choose a font for number plates in the UK. It's illegal to have any font other than the one laid down by the DVLA.

Yeah, nearly every plate on that Fancyplates site is illegal, LOL...

thanks guys..

yeah, i need technical help really....

scripting really aint my bag to be honest..

might be punching above my weight here?

Unless i can download some software that does all the hard work?

Otherwise, i would have to learn PHP wouldnt i?

 

Thanks for your help guys..

 

Mat

I wouldn't use php myself - just some Javascript to update the preview pane as I said in my code above.

 

In terms of actually buying the plate, then you would need something like Magento or a shopping cart of some kind, but for the preview, then a bit of simple JS would suffice

I wouldn't use php myself - just some Javascript to update the preview pane as I said in my code above.

 

In terms of actually buying the plate, then you would need something like Magento or a shopping cart of some kind, but for the preview, then a bit of simple JS would suffice

 

thanks mate...

 

do you know of any tutorials on this subject?

cos i cant find any..

or i'm looking in the wrong places!!!

 

Thanks for your help!

Take a look at http://net.tutsplus.com/ and also http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

 

They are some great places to start off with.

 

Start off by mocking up the html/css first and then add the jquery in once that is sorted.

 

Tel