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Danio · 08-28-2004, 01:34 AM

Clearly NorCal240SX.org needs work. Not only does the website suck, the mailing list stopped working a long time ago! And now I can't seem to reach the server admin. (This is the problem with having someone host your site for free.)

The NorCal 240SX website was supposed to have a content management system (CMS, eg. vBulletin) a long time ago, which would have allowed members to schedule meets, post pictures, subscribe/unsubscribe from the mailing list, view member infos, etc. I know how to set up that stuff, except I didn't have the server access to do that. I had asked the server admin if it was possible for him to set it all up, and he said he'll do it. Well obviously it never happened, and now I can't reach him.

My own website is on a very reliable host with terrific 24/7 customer service. I'd like to move norcal240sx.org to that same host. The CMS I'd like to use is Drupal (drupal.org), which is what my site uses, because it's free and very customizable (and "open source" so there's a big community to help if there're problems setting up features and stuff).

But it doesn't have to be me. I won't be able to put as much time as I'd like into working on the site, so if someone else has the expertise in doing this stuff, please let me know. If not (there has to be a few 240SX owners who are computer geeks in the Silicon Valley), I don't mind doing it. All I ask is that someone, or some people, help me pay for the hosting service, which is $40 per year. $40/yr for 300 MB, 1 MySQL database, PHP, unlimited e-mail addresses, etc, is very cheap. Why don't I pay for it myself? I'm short on money, and I don't want to pay :P so if you ppl can help me with it, that'd be great.

So you can help in two ways. If someone would volunteer to do this stuff, great! Contact me. If nobody's gonna do it, I'll do it. I trust that I'll get some donations later on to help pay for it. >:]

Teh Luckinator · 08-28-2004, 03:25 AM

I'd love to HELP, but I know I can't do all of it. Maybe if I could be a... mod or of some sort? I don't know. I'm willing to help anyway I can though.

NZO · 08-28-2004, 03:13 PM

Funny I was just wondering what happened to you and the site the other day. Id be willing to contribute to the fund, I'm sure youd easily get the $40 a year you need.

kazuo · 08-29-2004, 01:32 PM

I'll throw down for it. :P

*TiNMAN* · 08-29-2004, 01:41 PM

i got $5 on it! who has the chronic? jk, no really im down to throw down too.

sr240mike · 08-29-2004, 06:33 PM

I got 5 on it too. That site needs the update

Zoom8112 · 08-30-2004, 10:17 AM

i'd be interested in helping out if i could get some info on what kind of direction everyone wants the site to go.

95Blue240sx · 08-30-2004, 01:30 PM

im no web geek, but i can help with donating. i think if we can get people to pitch it more than just $5 we can save that money and use it towards money for meets and shit like that. just an idea.

knghtryde · 08-30-2004, 05:25 PM

Danio... I'll give you the $40.00 bucks cash if you're near the South Bay area....

Andrew Bohan · 08-30-2004, 05:28 PM

holy shit, david's big ballin!

i'll help out with any graphics and stuff

knghtryde · 08-30-2004, 05:54 PM

Dude you guys act like $40 is alot or something

Andrew Bohan · 08-30-2004, 08:01 PM

i have to make 50 bucks last for 3 weeks, so yeah 40 bucks is a lot

DRFT · 08-30-2004, 10:03 PM

ill chip in too....will there be norcal240sx stickers designed along the way?

knghtryde · 08-31-2004, 12:14 PM

Andrew just think... once you graduate college $40 won't even be considered pocket change... LoLz...

Danio · 08-31-2004, 09:20 PM

This is NorCal. $40 is a lot. Look at what happened to NCDA... LOL j/k... -_-;

Anyway, I'll get to work on it middle of next week. If you'd like to donate now with PayPal, my e-mail is danzeth at comcast dot net.

i'm driftaholic - If you can make a header graphic and save it as .psd (so I can edit as needed), that'd be great. Make it large enough so I can reduce the size. Thanks.

DRFT - Sure, we can have stickers. Just need someone to volunteer to take care of that stuff.

I'll continue later cuz I'm in class right now.

sr240mike · 08-31-2004, 09:28 PM

Just sent you $10

AutoRnD · 09-01-2004, 11:05 AM

whoa... =) honestly... that website needs to get more content... there is like nothin in there.. hell i didnt even know this website existed.

kazuo · 09-01-2004, 11:35 AM

Dan,

I'mma send you $10 as well.

that180guy · 09-01-2004, 12:44 PM

i wondered what happend to that mailing list........

im dwn for 5 bucks, and yay!!! stickers!!!

Andrew Bohan · 09-01-2004, 10:11 PM

danio do you have any guidelines for me to follow? or just whatever i feel like?

Teh Luckinator · 09-02-2004, 06:37 PM

I'd like to make images/graphics for the site, too.

Danio · 09-05-2004, 01:38 AM

Don't really have any guidelines. Just make them high resolution files so that they can be used for other stuff if needed. And use layers so that they can be edited easily.

Danio · 09-10-2004, 07:50 AM

Site is not finished but could use a few testers and suggestions.

norcal240sx.org

AutoRnD · 09-10-2004, 11:13 AM

it looks confusing as hell

Danio · 09-10-2004, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ard josh

it looks confusing as hell

Yes, I'll work on that. :] It just needs some content and images, and lots of cleaning up. I'll get around to it in a few days.

Meanwhile, you guys can help by testing the funtionality and giving feedback on how it can all work better. You'll need to create an account to do that.

The main thing people use should be the forums, so go ahead and make some test posts. This is your chance to be a post whore! =D Any thread in the forum could be "promoted" to the front page by a moderator, so that people can see the post without searching through the forum pages. This could be useful for threads like "My S13 got stolen!" which could use everyone's attention.

We might use that for meets also (people post meets in forums and mods promote worthy ones to the front), although I have something else in mind right now for posting meets. The problem we have once in a while with meets in Zilvia is that there'd be a bunch of them at about the same time. There'd be one in Milpitas and two days later one right nextdoor in Fremont. Few people would go to both.

I was thinking people could post an upcoming meet as a "story", which is anything that should go on the front page. However you don't just write about a meet and submit it and see it on the front page. It goes through the "submission queue" and members will be able to vote on whether or not the post makes it to the front page. A vote would be like saying "Yes I'm interested in going to this meet." This way, which events happen become up to the community rather than the mods.

You'll see that you're able to post blog entries. I hate my car so I'm never gonna use it, but maybe some of you out there love your cars so much that you'd like to write about them and let other members know about them. One of the common questions at meets is "So what have you done to your car so far" and you'd be able to answer on the blog. "Today I put on Mugen wheels and painted the car yellow and pink." "Today I added a fake second muffler." And of course people would be able to comment on your blog.

The 240SX Handbook is meant to be a reference source with pages contributed by members. You contribute by writing a book page, and a mod puts it in the right place in the book after reviewing it.

That's about it for now. I'll look into adding PMs and a calendar later on.

proj240sx · 09-10-2004, 04:01 PM

yay its alive!!

someguy_240 · 09-10-2004, 06:54 PM

sweetness lookin good man!

Danio · 09-13-2004, 01:59 AM

Updated the site a bit.

Try the voting system. I've submitted an upcoming meet post and it's in the submission queue. Currently, 4 votes will bring it to the front page. When more members sign up, we'll up the required number of votes a bit. The purpose for this is to see which meets people have an interest in and which ones people will ignore. If a mod feels that the post deserves attention, s/he can let it bypass the voting process and send it to the front page.

Also try submitting your own events or news, so we can try out the voting system more.

Danio · 09-18-2004, 02:12 AM

Is the site too hard to use or what?

NZO · 09-18-2004, 03:03 AM

Its cool and has a lot of features but I think if it looked more unified it would be easier to use.

08-28-2004, 01:34 AM	#1
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	NorCal240SX.org website NEEDS YOU! Clearly NorCal240SX.org needs work. Not only does the website suck, the mailing list stopped working a long time ago! And now I can't seem to reach the server admin. (This is the problem with having someone host your site for free.) The NorCal 240SX website was supposed to have a content management system (CMS, eg. vBulletin) a long time ago, which would have allowed members to schedule meets, post pictures, subscribe/unsubscribe from the mailing list, view member infos, etc. I know how to set up that stuff, except I didn't have the server access to do that. I had asked the server admin if it was possible for him to set it all up, and he said he'll do it. Well obviously it never happened, and now I can't reach him. My own website is on a very reliable host with terrific 24/7 customer service. I'd like to move norcal240sx.org to that same host. The CMS I'd like to use is Drupal (drupal.org), which is what my site uses, because it's free and very customizable (and "open source" so there's a big community to help if there're problems setting up features and stuff). But it doesn't have to be me. I won't be able to put as much time as I'd like into working on the site, so if someone else has the expertise in doing this stuff, please let me know. If not (there has to be a few 240SX owners who are computer geeks in the Silicon Valley), I don't mind doing it. All I ask is that someone, or some people, help me pay for the hosting service, which is $40 per year. $40/yr for 300 MB, 1 MySQL database, PHP, unlimited e-mail addresses, etc, is very cheap. Why don't I pay for it myself? I'm short on money, and I don't want to pay :P so if you ppl can help me with it, that'd be great. So you can help in two ways. If someone would volunteer to do this stuff, great! Contact me. If nobody's gonna do it, I'll do it. I trust that I'll get some donations later on to help pay for it. >:]

08-28-2004, 03:13 PM	#3
NZO Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 27 Posts: 1,431 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: NZO	Funny I was just wondering what happened to you and the site the other day. Id be willing to contribute to the fund, I'm sure youd easily get the $40 a year you need. __________________ sentinelguild.com/nzo/PFCDB/

08-29-2004, 01:41 PM	#5
TiNMAN Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NorCal, East Bay Favorite Color: Green Age: 24 Posts: 3,940 Trader Rating: (2)	i got $5 on it! who has the chronic? jk, no really im down to throw down too. __________________ I AM LEGIT.

08-29-2004, 06:33 PM	#6
sr240mike Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: California, Norcal biiaatch Posts: 1,186 Trader Rating: (0)	I got 5 on it too. That site needs the update __________________ http://guernsey.globat.com/~mountain...ng/mikesig.jpg TWO IN THE COOT, ONE IN THE POOT

08-30-2004, 01:30 PM	#8
95Blue240sx Post Whore! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Girls pee-pee when they see me Age: 26 Posts: 4,094 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: 95Blue240sx	im no web geek, but i can help with donating. i think if we can get people to pitch it more than just $5 we can save that money and use it towards money for meets and shit like that. just an idea. __________________ http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...kimods/sig.jpg Please leave me feedback

08-28-2004, 03:25 AM	#2
Teh Luckinator Zilvia Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stockton, California Posts: 241 Trader Rating: (1)	I'd love to HELP, but I know I can't do all of it. Maybe if I could be a... mod or of some sort? I don't know. I'm willing to help anyway I can though.

08-29-2004, 01:32 PM	#4
kazuo Post Whore! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Posts: 2,755 Trader Rating: (3)	I'll throw down for it. :P

08-30-2004, 10:17 AM	#7
Zoom8112 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 436 Trader Rating: (0)	i'd be interested in helping out if i could get some info on what kind of direction everyone wants the site to go.

08-30-2004, 05:25 PM	#9
knghtryde Zilvia Addict Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Campbell, California Age: 29 Posts: 805 Trader Rating: (0)	Danio... I'll give you the $40.00 bucks cash if you're near the South Bay area.... __________________ David Munoz, 1989 S13 KA24ET 1990 Infiniti Q45 To push oneself to the limit is all that one can do. To quit is to die.

08-30-2004, 05:28 PM	#10
Andrew Bohan Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Location: Location Age: 30 Posts: 8,355 Trader Rating: (2)	holy shit, david's big ballin! i'll help out with any graphics and stuff __________________ http://www.laboratory17.com/banner.jpg www.laboratory17.com www.twitter.com/lab17

08-30-2004, 05:54 PM	#11
knghtryde Zilvia Addict Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Campbell, California Age: 29 Posts: 805 Trader Rating: (0)	Dude you guys act like $40 is alot or something __________________ David Munoz, 1989 S13 KA24ET 1990 Infiniti Q45 To push oneself to the limit is all that one can do. To quit is to die.

08-30-2004, 08:01 PM	#12
Andrew Bohan Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Location: Location Age: 30 Posts: 8,355 Trader Rating: (2)	i have to make 50 bucks last for 3 weeks, so yeah 40 bucks is a lot __________________ http://www.laboratory17.com/banner.jpg www.laboratory17.com www.twitter.com/lab17

08-30-2004, 10:03 PM	#13
DRFT Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pow Pow Age: 25 Posts: 3,808 Trader Rating: (0)	ill chip in too....will there be norcal240sx stickers designed along the way?

08-31-2004, 12:14 PM	#14
knghtryde Zilvia Addict Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Campbell, California Age: 29 Posts: 805 Trader Rating: (0)	Andrew just think... once you graduate college $40 won't even be considered pocket change... LoLz... __________________ David Munoz, 1989 S13 KA24ET 1990 Infiniti Q45 To push oneself to the limit is all that one can do. To quit is to die.

08-31-2004, 09:20 PM	#15
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	This is NorCal. $40 is a lot. Look at what happened to NCDA... LOL j/k... -_-; Anyway, I'll get to work on it middle of next week. If you'd like to donate now with PayPal, my e-mail is danzeth at comcast dot net. i'm driftaholic - If you can make a header graphic and save it as .psd (so I can edit as needed), that'd be great. Make it large enough so I can reduce the size. Thanks. DRFT - Sure, we can have stickers. Just need someone to volunteer to take care of that stuff. I'll continue later cuz I'm in class right now.

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09-01-2004, 12:44 PM	#19
that180guy Zilvia Addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: EaStO BaYo Age: 24 Posts: 969 Trader Rating: (0)	i wondered what happend to that mailing list........ im dwn for 5 bucks, and yay!!! stickers!!! __________________ LP stylez!! bishes Lazy Penguin since teh 04' http://www.lazypenguin.net/banners/banner_alex_new.jpg Part of the Elite Shasta Speed Stars RIP......05-09-03....sniff sniff the beast nears completion..... YOU LOOK AND U BUY STUFF !!!!!*

09-10-2004, 11:13 AM	#24
AutoRnD Nissanaholic! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: AutoLand Posts: 2,221 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: AutoRnD	it looks confusing as hell __________________ PAYPAL: SALES@AUTORND.COM CC: PM YOUR PHONE # WE WILL CALL 408-635-0000 YAY AREA, NORCAL http://amazing.commonservers.com/~fc..._DSC00021t.jpg http://amazing.commonservers.com/~fc...b_DSC00053.JPG

08-31-2004, 09:28 PM	#16
sr240mike Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: California, Norcal biiaatch Posts: 1,186 Trader Rating: (0)	Just sent you $10 __________________ http://guernsey.globat.com/~mountain...ng/mikesig.jpg TWO IN THE COOT, ONE IN THE POOT

09-01-2004, 11:05 AM	#17
AutoRnD Nissanaholic! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: AutoLand Posts: 2,221 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: AutoRnD	whoa... =) honestly... that website needs to get more content... there is like nothin in there.. hell i didnt even know this website existed. __________________ PAYPAL: SALES@AUTORND.COM CC: PM YOUR PHONE # WE WILL CALL 408-635-0000 YAY AREA, NORCAL http://amazing.commonservers.com/~fc..._DSC00021t.jpg http://amazing.commonservers.com/~fc...b_DSC00053.JPG

09-01-2004, 11:35 AM	#18
kazuo Post Whore! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Posts: 2,755 Trader Rating: (3)	Dan, I'mma send you $10 as well.

09-01-2004, 10:11 PM	#20
Andrew Bohan Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Location: Location Age: 30 Posts: 8,355 Trader Rating: (2)	danio do you have any guidelines for me to follow? or just whatever i feel like? __________________ http://www.laboratory17.com/banner.jpg www.laboratory17.com www.twitter.com/lab17

09-02-2004, 06:37 PM	#21
Teh Luckinator Zilvia Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stockton, California Posts: 241 Trader Rating: (1)	I'd like to make images/graphics for the site, too.

09-05-2004, 01:38 AM	#22
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	Don't really have any guidelines. Just make them high resolution files so that they can be used for other stuff if needed. And use layers so that they can be edited easily.

09-10-2004, 07:50 AM	#23
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	Site is not finished but could use a few testers and suggestions. norcal240sx.org

09-10-2004, 04:01 PM	#26
proj240sx Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Age: 26 Posts: 463 Trader Rating: (2)	yay its alive!! __________________ 90 RPS1345 hybrid thingy & 01 IS300

09-10-2004, 06:54 PM	#27
someguy_240 Zilvia Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: San Jose Age: 29 Posts: 203 Trader Rating: (0)	sweetness lookin good man! __________________ "...But my tires were wet!"

09-13-2004, 01:59 AM	#28
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	Test voting system Updated the site a bit. Try the voting system. I've submitted an upcoming meet post and it's in the submission queue. Currently, 4 votes will bring it to the front page. When more members sign up, we'll up the required number of votes a bit. The purpose for this is to see which meets people have an interest in and which ones people will ignore. If a mod feels that the post deserves attention, s/he can let it bypass the voting process and send it to the front page. Also try submitting your own events or news, so we can try out the voting system more.

09-18-2004, 02:12 AM	#29
Danio Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SJ Bay Area Posts: 1,002 Trader Rating: (0)	Is the site too hard to use or what?

09-18-2004, 03:03 AM	#30
NZO Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 27 Posts: 1,431 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: NZO	Its cool and has a lot of features but I think if it looked more unified it would be easier to use. __________________ sentinelguild.com/nzo/PFCDB/

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