NEW: TOprotege.com Portal

[Mike_Moss]

NEW: TOprotege.com (http://www.toprotege.com/) Portal

NEW Website Colours (as you've probably noticed
*** The new colour scheme is selectable at the bottom left of any page.
NEW Website Portal (http://www.toprotege.com/)
Contains all Toronto Protege Club related info at a glance.
NEW Club Sponsor Listing (http://www.toprotege.com/index.php?page=sponsors)



NEW Club Contact Listing (http://www.toprotege.com/index.php?page=contact)



NEW Club History (http://www.toprotege.com/index.php?page=history) (work in progress)

NEW Various How-To's and Recommended Websites
*** Please contact us if you have a Tech Document you'd like to contribute!UPDATED Club Calendar
*** Please contact us if you have an event you would like listed on our Club Calendar!

There is a ton of info to digest on the Portal itself, so please feel free to take a look around. If you have any questions or comments either contact myself or Perma via PM or at webmaster@toprotege.com

[Perma]

We hope everyone enjoys the new digs! We're always open to suggestions and new content via PM or e-mail.

PM: mike_moss or Perma
E-mail: webmaster@toprotege.com

Have a look around :)

[onequickmsp]

Nice,
Awesome work guys.

[Cool_Steve]

Red forum is red!

The sponsor and contact listings are a nice touch, makes this place look more official. As for How-To's; Mike is this that project you referred to when I submitted my detailing guide to you?

[raghtal]

Looks good and works well in the Blackberry 8700

[mojzesz]

Looks good!!!

[The Destroyer]

Looks great guys. Awesome work!

[burlingtonprotege]

i love this! we have a website now instead of just going straigh to the forum :D!!!!!! awesome work

[prot3g3]

wow this is awesome, at first i was like WTF???

but its pro

good job on everyone who put effort into it.

PRO!

[SLED14]

looks like a lot of hard work went into this - thanks for the new TOProtege!

[starscream]

its a very nice! borat wants to make a romance to the board

[Kocakola]

Just in case the same problem happened for anyone else. I could not view the new portal at Toprotege.com. It still showed up as the old MSP banner. You must clear you Cache and it worked smoothly. :)

[CrazyCaker]

Very nice guys. Looks good.

[RicecookerP5]

PermaMoss FTW!!!

Great work gentlemen.

[Spyder01]

Actually, I like this new red and grey... makes the text easier to read. I changed it back to the blue and screen seems all bright and shit :p lol haha good job permamoss... :D

[tiffers]

Great work guys!!

... but can you add the P-girl charity pillow fight to the calendar??

[evil_y2k_twin]

Sweet holy moly!

[maztenzin]

change is good.

good job guys...!!!

[dead_cactus]

I like the changes. Good work.

[MrE007]

Great work!!

[991.8l]

Keep up the good work!

[Mike_Moss]

Great work guys!!

... but can you add the P-girl charity pillow fight to the calendar??
Sure, just send us info and pics.

[tiffers]

^ will do :D

[ansonr1980]

nice job

[CulRidr]

Love the new look (although I'm sticking with the original colour). The portal at the home page is a nice touch, but the vendors/contact listing really adds a lot!

[Spin_E!]

Wow guys very nice!!! An unexpected surprise this morning!

[2003 Mazdaspeed]

wow!! Nice work!!


I finally set my color back to normal!! lol.. i thought i was looking at RFD

[maggicman]

Very Pro guys!!!:)

[dead_cactus]

Are there going to be other color choices in the future? I like the new PermaMoss red.

[raghtal]

Great job!

I didn't see a favicon, so I was wondering maybe you guys were going to create one, or run a contest asking members to create entries and see which one got picked by the Officers?

Something like this?
http://www.html-kit.com/dlc/cache_692ad3795a6b2ff8f779883455a4ab2e/preview_32x32.png

[Mike_Moss]

^ Excellent feedback. I think this was on the list way back when, but must've gotten lost. Thanks for the idea!

[raghtal]

I tried making one using El Diablo, since its red, but it turned out too dark. Someone with greater Pshop skillz than me can likely come up with something better.

[dead_cactus]

A favicon would be sweet. Thats how I navigate through my internet favorites is with favicons.

[raghtal]

I tried again....

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10032&stc=1&d=1211569803

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10033&stc=1&d=1211569797

[Mike_Moss]

I think we'll have to stick with "TOP", or something of the like.

That looks a bit too much like nothing.

[raghtal]

OK, how about this?

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10034&stc=1&d=1211571434

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10035&stc=1&d=1211571437

[Junior]

Here is one.

[Mike_Moss]

Those are both good, but it would be cool if it was something that represented TOprotege, IMO.

[ChopstickHero]

wow, red!

[spincycle]

Looks good, but how come the forum is entirely private now?

[raghtal]

Those are both good, but it would be cool if it was something that represented TOprotege, IMO.

How about this?

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10044&stc=1&d=1211677215

[Mike_Moss]

Looks good, but how come the forum is entirely private now?It only takes a second to register.

We thought long and hard about this decision!

[Mike_Moss]

How about this?

http://www.toprotege.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10044&stc=1&d=1211677215
Me likes!

[Cool_Steve]

It only takes a second to register.

We thought long and hard about this decision!

It's kinda a pita when you want to quickly check the forum to say referance something, like at work, but you can't and you have to log in no matter what. Also, alot of sigs, like mine, are all messed up now.

[raghtal]

It's kinda a pita when you want to quickly check the forum to say referance something, like at work, but you can't and you have to log in no matter what. Also, alot of sigs, like mine, are all messed up now.

I just went in and fixed my sig, didn't take too long. As for logging in, that takes 2 secs too.

[dead_cactus]

I've seen TONS of messed up sig's recently. There should be an official announcement to have people check there sig's. Most people might not even notice if they have sig's turned off.

[Cool_Steve]

The private setting is also a pita when I want to referance something to someone else on the board, and if I shoot them a link they won't even be able to see it as they are not a member. Sometimes its handy to referance other message baords, and I don't think you want every person visiting here becoming a member just to view a thread - the member count would skyrocket with dead weight.

Edit - did we lose font choices in the sigs? I had mine on Garamond, why do we only get one text choice?

[ross]

i like the new look great job guys

[xtracrispy]

How come no one's commented on the red?

[lowpro2002]

i changed it back to blue, you can do the same?

[tiffers]

there are comments on the red in the TOP new portal thread that Mike_moss posted... apparently you can change the colours for yourself..

I like it personally... :)

[The Destroyer]

Go down to the bottom left hand side of any forum screen and you can change back to the default one. I felt the same way which is why I changed it myself, much to the dismay of Perma. :p

[Perma]

Threads merged

[dead_cactus]

I personally like the red. Great idea guys. Any plans for other colors as well?

[Mike_Moss]

I personally like the red. Great idea guys. Any plans for other colors as well?Just wanted something a bit different and to match the club logo.

We could load some default colours, but what fun is that? They'd look like any other forum.

Contrary to those that think we look like RFD (not intentional :o ), Permz did a sick job of creating this scheme from scratch, which is a PITA as there are a lot of parameters to change.

We do have another style coming down the pipes though, won't be useful for everyone, but for those that need it - it will be a godsend! ;)

[Mike_Moss]

Permz and I would like to say thanks to all for the constructive comments both posted and received via PM!

Also, a couple of key things to note (as a few members have suggested - thanks again! :)):

NEW Website Colours (as you've probably noticed)
*** The new colour scheme is selectable at the bottom left of any page.



PLEASE CHECK YOUR SIGNATURE FOR BROKEN CODE!
*** This is something that you should constantly be monitoring especially if you're linking your image from a site such as PhotoBucket. There are quite a few people with dead images.

[spincycle]

It only takes a second to register.

We thought long and hard about this decision!

Well, I guess that is something I liked about TOP. It was an open forum, open to the public. It lets new, potential members get a feel for the club before joining. If the forum wasn't public, I would have never joined. It was reading though the posts and getting a sense of what the folks were like on the board which helped me with my decision.

I've seen other car clubs disappear from turning their forums private, I'm not sure if you remember DSCR. I just don't want to see TOP go down the same path they did.

It seems like a minor point, but the changes how people view the club. It goes from an open, welcoming forum, to a private clique.

I hope you guys reconsider.




spin

[Junior]

Well, I guess that is something I liked about TOP. It was an open forum, open to the public. It lets new, potential members get a feel for the club before joining. If the forum wasn't public, I would have never joined. It was reading though the posts and getting a sense of what the folks were like on the board which helped me with my decision.

I've seen other car clubs disappear from turning their forums private, I'm not sure if you remember DSCR. I just don't want to see TOP go down the same path they did.

It seems like a minor point, but the changes how people view the club. It goes from an open, welcoming forum, to a private clique.

I hope you guys reconsider.




spin

The main reason for making a forum private is for the security and safety of all the members of the forum that post pics of their cars/mods sometimes their homes and other personal types of pictures. While I understand that the most personal of pics should not be posted on the internet, since it'll never be 100% private or exclusive, we're doing our part in helping to keep a certain level of 'safety' in knowing that the people that will view your pix will be the ones that are registeres and part of this community.

We may not get the odd 'guest lurker', but that's why we have now created a portal for even guests to see what the club is about without actually signing up. The club is a strong SOCIAL club, in my eyes ... The forum is just a tool for communication, and not the sole reason we are all here.

They can't browse the forum (until the sign up), but that's how it should have been from the beginning (and it used to be this way ... when the club originally started) We're returning it to the roots.

When you signed up, there was no such portal in existence and having the forum private may have deterred you at that time, but the website is different now, with the creation of the portal.

[raghtal]

Well, I guess that is something I liked about TOP. It was an open forum, open to the public. It lets new, potential members get a feel for the club before joining. If the forum wasn't public, I would have never joined. It was reading though the posts and getting a sense of what the folks were like on the board which helped me with my decision.

I've seen other car clubs disappear from turning their forums private, I'm not sure if you remember DSCR. I just don't want to see TOP go down the same path they did.

It seems like a minor point, but the changes how people view the club. It goes from an open, welcoming forum, to a private clique.

I hope you guys reconsider.

spin
My decision to join the club didn't hinge on whether or not the forum was public or not. And I didn't consider myself a Member until I started paying an annual Membership to an officer and carrying a card. What you are talking about is just the online forum portion of a Car Club. I became a Member because of the quality of the people, the way the club was run, and the wealth of information, help and advice - most of that has manifested in the (more important) real world of the club, than just the forum.

Just because most of the online forum is now private, doesn't make me feel like its something exclusive. I'm used to many online forums now requiring 'membership' to join, but that's just to view the forum posts. That's hardly the full extent of the car club.

I don't think the change in how the forum posts can get accessed will hurt "membership" in the club, seeing as the most important "membership" is still very much open, welcome and more importantly, exists in the real world which is the strongest aspect of a successful Car Club.

[mazda_gurl]

I prefer that it be private

I find that the members of this forum are pretty close. Naturally, people want to share news of their personal lives, mods to their cars, or even their lawns. You get caught between a rock and a hard place because you would like to share some info & pics, but dont want it scattered all over the net. I know people can just register, take the info and leave, but having the forum initially set to private for all lurkers still provides a small sense of security and I enjoy it

I noticed just now that the original thread dates are now showing in the titles :D

Nice touch

Good work guys!

[iBbLaCkMaN02Pro5]

I've been doing a crappy job of getting on this site so I'm here to give huge props to this new design. Looks pro, fuh real. Real nice like.