New Forum

[Fuzzy Orange]

Guys/Gals

After a VERY late night last night (5am I finished) and some personal cost to myself, we are now rocking on a vbulletin forum

I think this feels a LOT better than the old forum, and will allow me to bolt on new features such as a garage where you can host pics and specs of your lovely cars :)

Please be gentle with the forum for a few days as it's been a lot of hard work to get all our old posts/threads/pms over and im not sure how it will behave for a while

If theres anything you notice thats weird, even images that dont look quite right PLEASE let me know by posting on here

Please also look in your control panel and update your profile, date of birth etc...

And also all avatars were lost in the move over but feel free to upload them again :)

I've kept the old forum up for a while so if theres anything that's been lost that was important let me know and i'll try to get it back :)

[Norledge]

Spot on Fuzzy Lad!

One thing... £ signs moved over come out like this..

All packaged up and ready to go, postage is £8

[Fuzzy Orange]

Just noticed that - it might just have to be something we put up with mate

It works fine on new posts - just the imported stuff has gone a bit weird

[Gina_G]

no problems so far dude, we going to have sigs back or is it wait until things have settled?

[Dan]

Loving it Fuzzy, looks brilliant pal.

[foster-12]

bit different but i like it. where is the banner off the old one tho? i miss that. o and i cant see Rallye James being impressed that the time logged in has gone, we now cant see how sad he is,lol.

[Dan]

LOL

I forgot about that.

The forum will no doubt have a few bits tweeked as the days go by.

[Tim]

looks good mate, but can you enable use of IMG tags in sigs?

[Dan]

Yeah, Ive said that to him on msn.

[Jimbo]

Aye, once everyone gets used to it, sure it'll be great

[Tim]

Yeah, Ive said that to him on msn.

okie dokie, he never accepted me on msn :( added him months back how rude! lol

[Dargs]

Love it, excellnt work fuzz

[James]

Feels alot better than the old forum mate :) but you took your time doing it LMAO :D

well done fuzz

[Fuzzy Orange]

Took my time? You cheeky bastard

Look away now if techy stuff bores you

There is an import routine that convers simple machines forums into vbulletin - but it didn't work, loads of stuff got cocked up - about 2am I finally got all the data back in
Then had to recreate all the usergroups, then the permissions

Kinda wish I hadn't started it around 3am, but I didnt fancy sitting around my house on valentines night - so got busy :)

[James]

Dedication buddy :D Expect a few JD+ coke on me at premier travel inn

[Dan]

I'll buy you a few beers too Fuzz. ;)

[NikkiGTi]

woo this is strange!! lol well done Phil!! I like it :) I think we should all get you a drink up FCS :D You'll be rather drunk though lol

[Luke]

looks ace fuzz! nice one bud

[Tuscan]

Excellent.

And ive been looking forward to a "garage"!! :)

[Rallye James]

bit different but i like it. where is the banner off the old one tho? i miss that. o and i cant see Rallye James being impressed that the time logged in has gone, we now cant see how sad he is,lol.

LMAO :D Maybe it's for the best

Glad to see the site back, I was starting to get withdrawl symptoms :o Good work Fuzz :)

Just one problem I can see - smileys? Unless you know the shortcut for them you cant put them in :confused: ;)

[hugh_106]

James, go to your CP options and enable all the coding for messages, then you can see the smileys.

OH, Fuzzy, I can't get the text in my sig smaller. It just shows the 'size' code instead.

[Tuscan]

If i remmeber correctly from QPC you have to go into "QUICK LINKS"
and clickd "EDIT OPTIONS"

[Fuzzy Orange]

Cheers for the support guys

The smilies thing is because this has a "quick reply" box
If you press the "go advanced" button you will get the full editor

Nath, I'll get the garage installed over the weekend :)

[Tuscan]

Its the bottom option
"Enhanced interface"
When you post you have to go to "Go Advanced" to use the feautures:cool:

[Tuscan]

Cheers dude im happy as now. Sent you a Pm too.

[Rallye James]

Thanks guys - sorted it now :p Any chance we can get more smilies? I really like them :D

[mat106]

Is there any way of getting allerts when a pm arrives, as it used to on the old site. I will just get used to it though over time. Great new look to the forum anyway so it was worth the wait. Ive just got to get a new avatar now.

[Rallye James]

Is there any way of getting allerts when a pm arrives, as it used to on the old site. I will just get used to it though over time. Great new look to the forum anyway so it was worth the wait. Ive just got to get a new avatar now.

That's in the options - I just turned it on

Tick the box that says "popup when PM received" or something along those lines ;)

[Rallye James]

I'm also loving the large style avatars - verry nice :D

[Steve Saunders]

Loving the new forum Phil... Great work mate... :D

Gotta love a bit of vBulletin.... :D

All working spot on for me... :D

[Steve Saunders]

EDIT: Double Post... Ooooops...

[Fuzzy Orange]

Cheers guys
Yeah I chucked some 150x150 avatars up
After all this is a car forum so we should all be able to get decent pics under our names :)

[Quiksilver_TR]

Nice one.

Phil,
Will I be getting the Events organiser info back under my name etc. PLEASE.
Cheers

[Fuzzy Orange]

Yes sorry mate just ran out of time sorting it all out yesterday (literally fell asleep at my desk)

I'll do it today

[Quiksilver_TR]

Sounds like you had a long hard day yesterday sorting it all out.
Lookin very nice now though.

Just need to get used to where everything is again.

[Rallye James]

Just an odd thing I noticed - how come it says posted however many minutes ago rather then posted at whatever time? :confused:

[Fuzzy Orange]

Just a setting mate - can change it to the exact time

[Tuscan]

Its better this way.