Site Upgrade Complete!, w00t! Options

[Coomer]

After hours and hours of slaving away on my computers, I think the site is ready to be released to the public, and that's why you're seeing it now.

As you can probably tell, the forums look a bit different. They're upgraded to the new version of Invision Power Board, which brings lots of new features. Most notable is probably the multiple quote system...see that quote icon on the top right of this post? Click it and it selects this post to be quoted when you hit the reply button at the bottom. Select multiple posts and you get multiple quotes.

Also new is a bunch of new features that you guys will discover.

And the forum skin appears to be a bit buggy, but that's being worked out.

Let me know what you guys think, and if you have any problems, please do post and let me know...it's the only way they'll get fixed.

To Do List

• Re-incorporate the location and AIM screen-name advanced search fields into the members' rides advanced search form
• Allow editing of pending how-to articles
• Re-incorporate the AIM icon into posts made by users with an AIM screen-name
• Re-incorporate Celica info('94 Celica ST, for example) under users' names
• Fix lots of skin/visualization issues

[Akimbo]

Thanks Coomer! Love the new Fast Reply!

Edit: First post!

This post has been edited by Akimbo: Nov 14, 2004 - 1:38 AM

[Ryu3x16]

yay!!...its up again...! now i have a reason to live

[Coomer]

yay!!...its up again...! now i have a reason to live
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Yep, now you're obliged to make a thread with some pics from that meet!

[NEVERSTOP]

2nd akimbo... cooms is 1st

Like the new look coomer!!

one ? though... is there a way to add a little section to the left of our posts that we can add things like GT2/3sgte/5sfte etc.. like maybe between what kinda car it is and our location?

If not its no prob cuz we got a sig to do that stuff but might make it a little less jumbled with all the big sigs that could be reduced down


Newayz.. Looks GREAT and your hardwork diffently will/has paid off!

can't wait to figure out every feature

[Coomer]

one ? though... is there a way to add a little section to the left of our posts that we can add things like GT2/3sgte/5sfte etc.. like maybe between what kinda car it is and our location?
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Location is already there...and I plan to put the car year, model, and body-style of peoples' cars back under their names.

It's just a matter of me being able to figure out how this new code powering the forums works.

[0Re0]

Nice!!!!!

[NEVERSTOP]

Location is already there...and I plan to put the car year, model, and body-style of peoples' cars back under their names.

It's just a matter of me being able to figure out how this new code powering the forums works.
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yea figured you would do that.. ment an extra section... also is there away to either sticky the GB's or have a seperate section/forum for them... cuz it kinda sucks to have to look around for them if no one has posted updates etc for a few days but its still goin on

[Coomer]

yea figured you would do that.. ment an extra section... also is there away to either sticky the GB's or have a seperate section/forum for them... cuz it kinda sucks to have to look around for them if no one has posted updates etc for a few days but its still goin on
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It'd be too much work to sticky all of them, and I don't think there are enough to warrant their own section.

[CheesyLobster]

Coomer,
Thanks so much for the time and effort that you put into this website. It truly is the best 6th gen Celica website and forum that there is. The upgrade looks great so far. Thanks again.

Brian

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

Man, I love this site. I'm glad it finaly back.

[Coomer]

Thanks for the comments guys!

It was actually fun doing all this work...I love seeing the finished result(although what you see now is far from finished. ) and I'm pretty happy with how everything came together today. At the end of last night I thought it'd never be done.

And if you're wondering why I'm posting so much, I'm blaming the caffeine...I finished off seven cans of Pepsi since 2:00 PM (it's 11:00 PM now) today here at my office, so I'm bouncing off the walls.

[jojobombiest]

I never noticed how much I go to this site until it was down..

[yellowxboy]

yes! its back up again! nice layout coomer!

[Newbie]

Thank you Coomer.. Do we still have the view new posts feature, or can I just not find it? Thanks for all your hard work.

[Coomer]

Where was that located again? I can work on it tomorrow.

Right now I'm leaving the office for a drive down the canyon roads and then home for some much needed sleep.

[YellowTwo]

It was up there with the "Control Panel" and "# New Messages." I think it was on the far right.

[Coomer]

Done. The view new posts link should be available for everyone now.

Lemme know if there's anything else that needs to be done.

[timbo]

The new 'quote' option is only 50% effective IMO. Only way to use the multiple quoting system is to make a new reply (add reply button) instead of just adding it to the fast/quick reply box.

Aside from that it looks decent. I say 'decent' because, I am more of a vBulletin fan rather than IPB.

:P

[Coomer]

The new 'quote' option is only 50% effective IMO. Only way to use the multiple quoting system is to make a new reply (add reply button) instead of just adding it to the fast/quick reply box.

Aside from that it looks decent. I say 'decent' because, I am more of a vBulletin fan rather than IPB.


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I could make it so that when the reply icon is clicked, it would automatically put the quoted text into the fast reply box. What do you guys think of that?

[dstrbcelica]

great job coomer. everything looks good.

-dstrb

[94gts]

thanx for the hard work the site look great

[Jdog1385]

looks amazing. i was truly lost for 3 days

[Supersprynt]

hey i can see how many posts i have again, now I can be a know it all again

[slipgun]

Thanks coomer! It really looks nice, and I think it may load faster on my end. Thanks for killing your weekend for us

[KaLeHaGeNeEs]

works great...

[BLINKYxMUNKEY]

great job Coomer. *clapping happily*

[Anub1s]

This is awesome Coomer, serious Kudos to you!

[turboinduction]

Great so far Chris

One thing though - Cant update profile. I saw that you had plans to incorporate AIM into the site and went to add my AIM name to my profile. Error is "must insert email address," though no area to insert it into. Just a heads up.

-Ti

Edit this one pal: Well I played some more. It seems you can edit your profile by going through the control panel, however you cannot edit if you go through the main page. Down on the bottom left, it says "view profile" "edit profile" etc. The "edit profile" doesn't work there, but again, does through the control panel.

This post has been edited by turboinduction: Nov 14, 2004 - 12:37 PM

[mikew04]

Very nice, i like it alot.
Maybe lower the minimum characters in the search to 3 instead of 4?
i.e., twm, trd, hub...

I never knew how much time i actually spent here, im glad its back up!

[Coomer]

Great so far Chris

One thing though - Cant update profile.  I saw that you had plans to incorporate AIM into the site and went to add my AIM name to my profile.  Error is "must insert email address," though no area to insert it into.  Just a heads up.

-Ti

Edit this one pal: Well I played some more.  It seems you can edit your profile by going through the control panel, however you cannot edit if you go through the main page.  Down on the bottom left, it says "view profile" "edit profile" etc.  The "edit profile" doesn't work there, but again, does through the control panel.
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Oh yes, that's also on the to-do list. I'll work on that in a few minutes if I can get my computer to work correctly.

Very nice, i like it alot.
Maybe lower the minimum characters in the search to 3 instead of 4?
i.e., twm, trd, hub...

I never knew how much time i actually spent here, im glad its back up!
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Unfortunately, because of the way the database indexes are created, three letter words don't work in the search, even if I lower the minimum word length to three. Rebuilding the indexes may be possible, but it would slow down the site I'd think. I'll look into it though.

[Consynx]

i get no credit?!?

i held that chat open Fri-night to sunday

[importceli]

ITSSS ALIIIVE! great job man lookin great keep it up

[turboinduction]

i get no credit?!?

i held that chat open Fri-night to sunday
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you sure did - and were never there mind you

-Ti

[dstrbcelica]

i get no credit?!?

i held that chat open Fri-night to sunday
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you sure did - and were never there mind you

-Ti
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i was there too...except on saturday hehe

-dstrb

[Exile04]

Oh thank the lord...almighty coom

[NYCelica]

looks awesome!! what about front page..will you change some new pictures of celicas,logos and smiles?

[Consynx]

i went home for the weekend, but kep the chat alive

i loik the loif of the site now...

[FallenHero]

coomer is the man. I have been lost for a while also.

[Defgeph]

I demand new smilies, updated pictures and logos...... maybe a make over for the front page. lol when you get a chance

great job coomer this place is hatness !1!!!11!!

DEF

[jojobombiest]

I just noticed that it doesnt show how many VIEWS a thread has... I liked seeing how many people have viewed my threads, could we bring that back?

EDIT: Not too big, but I liked when I used to click on a member's name and it took me straight to their profile. Now it takes me to some other page, then theres another button that says view their profile.

This post has been edited by jojobombiest: Nov 14, 2004 - 11:27 PM

[chucho]

Looks good, havent messed w/ it enough to see if I like it more or not

[Akimbo]

WHOA! Just noticed the new pm's! AND WHOA! That is great!

[Drocay]

thanx coomer site looks great.

[Supersprynt]

Is there problems with staying logged in..cuz I'm having issues.

[CelicaQT]

I have no problems staying logged in. When I go to another site, then come back to 6gc I'm still logged.

[Supersprynt]

I have to log in every time from work, but at home its fine...i'll try deleting cookies and starting over.

That didnt work, IDK whats goin on at my work computer.

Also a couple things: no more comments?
And mark this forum as read, not there anymore, not a biggie probably the only one who uses it.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Nov 15, 2004 - 1:25 PM

[Coomer]

looks awesome!! what about front page..will you change some new pictures of celicas,logos and smiles?
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Well, by 2005, those pics will be changed...//2004 just won't be cutting it anymore.

What do you mean by logos? And I do have plans to change up some of the smilies.

I demand new smilies,  updated pictures and logos......  maybe a make over for the front page.  lol when you get a chance

great job coomer this place is hatness !1!!!11!!

DEF
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Again, what logos? And what else do you want on the home page?

I just noticed that it doesnt show how many VIEWS a thread has... I liked seeing how many people have viewed my threads, could we bring that back?

EDIT: Not too big, but I liked when I used to click on a member's name and it took me straight to their profile.  Now it takes me to some other page, then theres another button that says view their profile. 
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I plan to put the view back in. People seem to like that.

If you click the profile icon, rather than the user's name, you go straight to their 6GC.net profile with the Celica info and such. I should replace the person on that icon with a wheel or something...

I have to log in every time from work, but at home its fine...i'll try deleting cookies and starting over.

That didnt work, IDK whats goin on at my work computer.

Also a couple things: no more comments?
And mark this forum as read, not there anymore, not a biggie probably the only one who uses it.
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It's possible that it's cookie settings on the server-side. I'm going to mess with those soon and see if I can get all the bugs worked out.

The comments were removed because they were too hard to moderate, unlike the forums, where management is always at. I noticed a lot of mean and inappropriate comments, and people would sometimes have comment wars and I'd have to go in and remove stuff...just too much of a hassle.

And someone else mentioned the "mark this forum as read" link too...I'll have to add that back in at some point.



Man do I love multi-quoting. It makes this so much easier!

[Supersprynt]

I still havent figured out how to use it.

[WannabeGT4]

I still havent figured out how to use it.
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just click on the posts that you want to show up in your reply then press add reply. You know that quote is selected if the quote icon looks like this . If you just want to reply to a single post you press instead of .

This post has been edited by WannabeGT4: Nov 16, 2004 - 8:58 AM

[dreddguy]

After hours and hours of slaving away on my computers, I think the site is ready to be released to the public, and that's why you're seeing it now.

As you can probably tell, the forums look a bit different. They're upgraded to the new version of Invision Power Board, which brings lots of new features. Most notable is probably the multiple quote system...see that quote icon on the top right of this post? Click it and it selects this post to be quoted when you hit the reply button at the bottom. Select multiple posts and you get multiple quotes.

Also new is a bunch of new features that you guys will discover.

And the forum skin appears to be a bit buggy, but that's being worked out.

Let me know what you guys think, and if you have any problems, please do post and let me know...it's the only way they'll get fixed.

To Do List

• Re-incorporate the location and AIM screen-name advanced search fields into the members' rides advanced search form
  
• Allow editing of pending how-to articles
  
• Re-incorporate the AIM icon into posts made by users with an AIM screen-name
  
• Re-incorporate Celica info('94 Celica ST, for example) under users' names
  
• Fix lots of skin/visualization issues
  

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[Coomer]

You brought up a post that's almost half a year old just to quote that?

[thedevilmaycrie]

dont worry im just as confused as you...

-DMC

[Supersprynt]

[Chrobis]

The thing I get confused about is that the newbs just sit at their comps and go through page after page after page of the forums... They must spend alot of time.

[Coomer]

The thing I get confused about is that the newbs just sit at their comps and go through page after page after page of the forums... They must spend alot of time.
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That's a good thing...that means they're researching, rather than just posting "Yo! I needz da Supra engine...how much and who will do it for me?"

[thedevilmaycrie]

Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff Blah blah blah blah blah this is a test blah blah blah more test stuff??? you testing something lol

-DMC

[vangSTa_celica]

That's a good thing...that means they're researching, rather than just posting "Yo! I needz da Supra engine...how much and who will do it for me?"

HAHA! The Coomang is GHETTO!

[bloodrain]

people use the term newbs like they were born with the knowledge of how to build a car from scratch, everyone has to start off somewhere.