New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Chris 2i on Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:29 pm

Michael! wrote:A lot of fiesta owners near me ask about my key ring and where to get them?


Send them my way then!
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Michael! on Wed Aug 29, 2012 2:20 pm

i will do!

speaking of which, pm me your paypal again and ill have another ;)
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Nikki_S on Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:58 pm

Liking the look of the new site, its so good to see FT evolving. I am really chuffed for you to have found a renewed intrest in the site and hopefully as a forum we can go from strength to strength.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Max M4X WW on Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:37 pm

Tweek wrote:The FT stand was abandoned for Trax due to lack of interest :lol: We're over on Max's stand at FUCCK, "Fernhurst Uber Cool Car Klub" I believe :)

It WILL be back next year though.

Yea I feel great now :lol: The Fiesta isn't done either!

Ade, Have you bought a ticket? I have some spare :bonkers:

I think the name has to stay, it can be made into something bigger :D
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:35 pm

Chris 2i wrote:Just finished looking at the site and I do like the layout of the ford fair article. I'll take a more in depth look next time I'm on a pc.

EDIT: have I missed something? What's the deal with future publishing?


Yep, I was wondering what the future publishing link was too. I do miss my 5D, I'll be after another in a year or so, I'm sure.

Could the forums be pushed onto forums.fiestaturbo.com and a redirect from http://www.fiestaturbo.com/forums put in place with a rewrite to sort out the url for direct linking to posts / threads? Your bag though, you know more about hosting than I do.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:48 pm

Moreover, I don't know about the name to be honest, a really big part of me thinks losing fiestaturbo.com is irrelevant these days, particularly given the long-standing absence of an RS edition. However, losing fiestaturbo would be a huge mistake - it's a long-established brand and will need to continue to be maintained to some degree.

Fiestamods, however... really don't know about that, it does conjur up images of halfords car parks to be fair. However, what're the alternatives - sometimes it's better to actually make a decision and go with it than sit on your hands and be batted back and forth by other peoples opinions.

EDIT. Ultimate is good, but I like "the definitive fiesta site" too :P
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby AdrianFRST on Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:56 pm

andymac wrote:
Chris 2i wrote:Just finished looking at the site and I do like the layout of the ford fair article. I'll take a more in depth look next time I'm on a pc.

EDIT: have I missed something? What's the deal with future publishing?


Yep, I was wondering what the future publishing link was too.


I got media access to Ford Fair so needed to show them then photos and report, hence the rushing to get something up.

andymac wrote:Could the forums be pushed onto forums.fiestaturbo.com and a redirect from http://www.fiestaturbo.com/forums put in place with a rewrite to sort out the url for direct linking to posts / threads? Your bag though, you know more about hosting than I do.


It could, but forum logins will be used on the main site too, so ideally needs to be the same domain.

Max M4X WW wrote:Ade, Have you bought a ticket? I have some spare :bonkers:


I've got media access to Trax too, so complimentary ticket :D Thanks anyhow!
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:02 pm

So, are you freelancing it or working for future now ?

Also, what realistically, is the problem with replacing the root site at fiestaturbo with what's at fiestamods ? How many people actually look at the root site and don't go straight to the forums (obviously with something that's updated regularly people will look) ? :D
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby AdrianFRST on Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:20 pm

Not working for Future, I wouldn't say freelancing either as that would suggest being employed by various people for various jobs which isn't the case either. The pics are for ft and another venture of mine which will be seeing the light soon.

ft will get what's at fiestamods. It's already there just not switched on as theres an issue with the forums login which I need to fix first.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:41 pm

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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Max M4X WW on Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:17 pm

AdrianFRST wrote:I've got media access to Trax too, so complimentary ticket :D Thanks anyhow!

Fair enough :P
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby ~nomad~ on Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:15 pm

Excursion wrote:Excellent! The new site looks great.

I am all for a name change. I think people tend to associate FT with old cars like the mk3, but times have changed and it would be good to attract a user base who are doing new things to the newer models, as you say. To put it into perspective, my Girlfriend's brother has just passed his test and he hadn't even seen a Mk3 before mine, and he calls my project the 'vintage Fiesta'! It's not a sustainable goal for a Website to appeal to an ever dwindling enthusiast base, especially given that the heyday for FT was back in the late '90's and early 2000's. Those days are obviously long gone!

The site needs new technology in addition to the well known CVH, Zetec etc. and it would be nice to see people go through that whole learning process we did with the Mk3 all those years ago. I'm also thinking back to when I was driving around in an XR2i and starting to modify it, I would have been put off visiting a site with associations with an old model e.g. xr2.com.

Having said the above, the 1.3 Turbo 'Fox' engine is due in the Mk7 Fiesta any time, so the fiestaturbo.com name would still be relevant. Also Ade, hopefully your Mk7 project will attract new members.


This. A more overall name makes more sense, whatever way you look at it people will always think of a mk3 rs turbo if you say fiestaturbo.com.

I also have to say that the first few replies to the thread disgusted me, Ade created this site you all love, and is working to try and revive it, have some respect.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby oVerboost. on Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:27 pm

As has been said, new planned site looks great! Well laid out, modern and welcoming too... exactly what the club/site needed! :)
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New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby ~Tony~ on Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:43 pm

I agree with nomad and excursion, fiestaturbo.com is more than what it's name says, but by this point whatever the name is people will follow if they want to and more will join. When I joined ft it was so alive it was hard to keep up with it, now it hardly moves so I agree something needs to be done and Ade is trying to do this. Whatever name is in use if done right it will thrive again. To me that is all that matters. I have some great friends from this site but although cars may have bought us together they are irrelevant in the grand scheme, same with the name really.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Chris 2i on Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:08 pm

~nomad~ wrote:A more overall name makes more sense, whatever way you look at it people will always think of a mk3 rs turbo if you say fiestaturbo.com.


Why? It's just a name, doesn't have to mean anything.

~nomad~ wrote:I also have to say that the first few replies to the thread disgusted me, Ade created this site you all love, and is working to try and revive it, have some respect.


Re-reading it I see what you mean, however I would hope my subsequent responses would indicate I wasn't intending to be offensive. A lot of effort has gone into keeping people engaged under the fiestaturbo name, and to be informed that it was all going to change without much warning at all did feel a bit like a kick in the teeth. What can I say? I feel passionate about the forum I'm representing and that was my first emotion. I can only apologise if this caused offence.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:35 pm

Ade, worth updating the image display code in phpBB to force a server-side resize now you've implemented the lightbox feature ?

EDIT: I see this works already on attachments, but linked images are still cropped. :)

And any danger of some sort of project schedule; so people know what to expect over the coming months and get an idea of when things will happen / change. :)
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Max M4X WW on Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:04 pm

I'd rather be able to click the images and see high-res personally, if its not being hosted on here it doesn't matter too much in regards to server traffic etc.
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby andymac on Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:19 pm

TBF unless you're shifting serious, serious traffic I don't think many hosts (particular where a VPS or dedicated server is being used) charge additional for bandwidth any more. Bandwidth is cheap compared to power etc...
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Re: New camera, new enthusiasm, NEW SITE!

Postby Ollie on Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:22 pm

Yeah, my hosts kept increasing the bandwidth we all had bit by bit until now it's just unlimited. Not that I actually use much of it. :lol:
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