Hi all,

 

After a very successful AGM at Coventry on Sunday a few items on the site have now been moved about.

 

The reason for these changes was generally discussed at the AGM and it is solely geared towards bolstering this site as a Club and not a Forum.

 

The '300ZX Owners Club' as you can see by the change of logo at the top is the now official title of the club.

 

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To increase the benefits of your support to the club the following sections have now been moved into the 'Subscribed Sections' :

 

 

300ZX Club Merchandise - This is an old section but has been archived to the Subscribed area.

 

The Games Room - Similar to media gamers usernames if listed are now protected from spammers and search engine leachers.

 

Club Competitions - This section will be split and competitions with larger prizes may be reserved to Subscribed members.

Z or Club Pics / Video / Media - You generally has to be subscribed to upload anything in this section, protecting it in the Subbed area prevents your pictures or media being plagiarised by search engines.

 

Classified Listings - This is now solely reserved for Subscribed members for buying and selling.

 

FAQ Storage Area - General help on the club is free but we think that this sections access should be reserved to subscribed members.

 

 

 

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We are working towards building a better club for everyone so we need to up our game.

 

If anyone has any suggestions please let us know or PM any of the committee.

 

As usual if anyone has any issues you are free to voice your opinions in a civilised manner. :)

 

Regards

 

Lee

Hi,

 

Yes plans are in place and underway.

 

We are looking at the overall picture rather than just sticking a front page in as there is many security issues we need to address

if we were to add a static like page.

 

For the moment a beta test site has been setup on an undisclosed top secret server (bets it shows up in google, lol)

 

I've taken a copy of the current database and upgraded the full platform to vBulletin 5 in order to test.

 

Now a few issues arise from this and there is many Pros but also Many Cons and some features we will loose and have to

start from scratch again.

 

vBulletin 5 has come along way since its release and the move if we proceed will not be easy so i'm taking my time.

 

Listed below is a few issues that i can see straight up :

 

Garage & Gallery module not compatable - will need to use vBullitins built in or find a new module that works.

Thanks, Like, WTF module is beta for version 5 and we would need to buy the module again.

Top banner module does not work in version 5 - need to use the new built in version.

PM system is totally different and will take time to learn.

Current Theme is also incompatable so as part of the rebrand we will also look different, hopefully not too much.

 

Towards the testing phase we will open up the test site for logins to the subscribed member base and you can all test it out

make some comments about how its setup.

 

Last time we migrated to the new design we were forced to do a launch early so our ideas were not copied by opposition sites.

 

This time i dont see any issues opening up the design prior to going live.

 

Lee

Always pointing out the negatives and never the possatives.

 

Positives to upgrading is :

 

we get a full CMS package.

 

Every subscribed member gets a full blog section rather than a thread to post there own builds up.

Security on vBulletin5 has been rewritten and its apparently a better system.

Members can be promoted to content editors and selected posts can be published to the front of the site.

we could start doing automated paid banners or no banners depending on your membership.

new sleaker design and we will launch the site as a owners club rather than a forum.

the sooner we are reconised as a national club hopfully more insurance providers will join us.

Some nice new features there

Just to say that the "300ZX Owners Club" has given me a €50 refund on insurance renewal due in the post.