Taking into account some of you visit primarily for the calculators and others for the blog I’ve made the priority of each the same so as you enter the site you are given the choice of which way to go or you can use one of the direct links http://racing aspirations.com/apps or http://racing aspirations.com/blog. There is crossover between the calculators and the blog though, so once you’re browsing the blog you will see links to related calculators and if you’re using one of the calculators you will also see links to related blog articles giving you practical examples of the calculator’s application.

For those of you that have created an account I would like to thank you by way of giving you an account page that retains the racing aspirations.com look and feel as well as displaying your avatar within the titlebar area of the site. Well, you took the time to upload a picture that reflects your personality so why hide it, right?

There is now an app framework built into racing aspirations.com so that each calculator, although having a very different look and feel is built on a page layout whereby options like sharing and embedding are common to all the calculators. Sharing has been improved using the addthis API. Common across all the calculators are the Larger and Maximize options. The Larger option lives beneath the calculator and lets you stretch the calculator to the site width giving you a little more room to calculate whilst retaining the site layout. Maximize lives to the right of the calculator title within the menu bar and utilizes the full width and height of the browser window. This is an especially useful option when using a tablet which, by the way, the new site layout looks great on.

Ads are a fact of modern life and racing aspirations.com’s only income is advertising revenue so adverts do appear on all content pages and have been designed to remain on screen even once you have scrolled past the fold line. However, rather than just filling the content pages with adverts I have put thought into how to incorporate them into the flow of the page so they never look out of place. I hope they don’t bug you too much and if you see something of interest please, do follow the link.

You will also notice the Wheel Frequency Calculator has been re-worked to fit into the new app framework. It has a more compact display that can be expanded but gives yo the info you need without requiring it. Try it in Maximized though, on a tablet in portrait mode and think how easy it would be to use at the track or in the workshop.