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46HudsonPU

Ted:
When you have a chance, please look into picture posting, picture hosting, and 'Attach Files'...

- In the advanced area for posting threads, where one would 'Attach Files', the utility/feature does not appear to be active;

- This particular utility, used to transfer pictures and files to the hosting area - to be added to threads in the forum, does not work any longer - http://www.classiccar.com/upload.php

53jetman

Mr. Administrator - I have a question. What happened to our more or less automatic return to the same area where we choose a particular post? ? ? ? It's kind of a pain to have to page down from the top of the current page each time after we close a particular post. Hope this is all as clear as "Mud", but I think you will have an idea of what I'm trying to say here.

Jerry

53jetman

RL Chilton

I'll chime in here, too. I love the new look, by the way. It's brighter and seems for cheerful. I have a question and I don't know if it's a site situation, or my personal computer situation, but some of the screens seem to be right-hand situated and I have to slide the cursor at the bottom of the screen to the left to get the picture back centered up and "on-screen". Otherwise about a third of the picture is off the screen.

bent metal

It used to be if I had looked at a thread and all of it's posts, the font would be less bold. Ones that either had no new posts within' the thread or new threads altogether would be in bold font. ..

.. I liked that feature.:cool:

EDIT: Ok, I've been messing with this a little bit. It's giving me the narrow font on threads I have viewed. (good) But, it is making the bold font on threads that I myself had just posted on. As if I had not viewed them, even though I was the last one to post. :confused: lol, you know what I'm trying to say?

37 Terraplane#2 · 37 Terraplane#2 August 2009 Posts: 1,659Platinum Member

When I tried to sign in I could'nt and the only posts that came up were 2 years old ||

Back on the old format now , GOOD |

hudsontech

Well, we got the forum back - is the chat page going to come back???? There are a few of us that still use it.

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

Ted W

hudsontech wrote:

Well, we got the forum back - is the chat page going to come back???? There are a few of us that still use it.

Chats will be back online in a day or two.

Ted W

37 Terraplane#2 wrote:

When I tried to sign in I could'nt and the only posts that came up were 2 years old ||
Back on the old format now , GOOD |

We have worked very hard to make everything work with one login. For 90% of the items on CC, one login is all you need.

We did have some problems with the login early, but fixed that and we hope for the majority, it works. Email us if you have a problem with you login.

Ted W

bent metal wrote:

It used to be if I had looked at a thread and all of it's posts, the font would be less bold. Ones that either had no new posts within' the thread or new threads altogether would be in bold font. .... I liked that feature.:cool:

EDIT: Ok, I've been messing with this a little bit. It's giving me the narrow font on threads I have viewed. (good) But, it is making the bold font on threads that I myself had just posted on. As if I had not viewed them, even though I was the last one to post. :confused: lol, you know what I'm trying to say?

Think I get what you me. I do see your Bold font in your post. I am not sure what browser you are using, that might be why you are not seeing the bold type.

We are using style sheets to set the font type on the site. For older browsers, this can be a problem. Upgrade your browser and see if that helps. We recommend FireFox or Safari. I have used the IE 8, but that may be a good option too. They are all FREE.

Ted W

RL Chilton wrote:

I'll chime in here, too. I love the new look, by the way. It's brighter and seems for cheerful. I have a question and I don't know if it's a site situation, or my personal computer situation, but some of the screens seem to be right-hand situated and I have to slide the cursor at the bottom of the screen to the left to get the picture back centered up and "on-screen". Otherwise about a third of the picture is off the screen.

Its hard to say what that might be. Make sure you are running at least 1024 resolution. We are now running the new standard screen size.

Ted W

53jetman wrote:

Mr. Administrator - I have a question. What happened to our more or less automatic return to the same area where we choose a particular post? ? ? ? It's kind of a pain to have to page down from the top of the current page each time after we close a particular post. Hope this is all as clear as "Mud", but I think you will have an idea of what I'm trying to say here.

Jerry
53jetman

Jerry, we will look at that. We had to do some tricky code work to get the forum to integrate into this our new format. We had to tie together several application to build the new site. We have been working on the code for almost a year now. So, there are few things to still tune. In the end, it may have to be a trade off to get all the elements to work together.

Ted W

46HudsonPU wrote:

Ted:
When you have a chance, please look into picture posting, picture hosting, and 'Attach Files'...

- In the advanced area for posting threads, where one would 'Attach Files', the utility/feature does not appear to be active;

- This particular utility, used to transfer pictures and files to the hosting area - to be added to threads in the forum, does not work any longer - http://www.classiccar.com/upload.php

Yes, that is broke right now. We encourage people to go the Motorhood section and start using the photo gallery feature. It is your own area in the website. We will have video training in about 2 weeks. But, the section allows you to have your own blog, photos, comment section, search for members that have the same cars...and lots more.

MikeWA

Just "checking in", so you can keep track of how things are working for the proletariat- I noted two of the problems mentioned (no boldface for unread posts, and not returning to where you left off on the thread list). Then I noticed I was not logged in, so I did so, at about 9:35 AM Pacific. When I came back to the board, both of the above problems had been solved! Not sure if it was just coincidence, or whether logging in "fixed" them.

mdwhit

Mike (WA) wrote:

Just "checking in"- I noted two of the problems mentioned (no boldface for unread posts, and not returning to where you left off on the thread list). Then I noticed I was not logged in, so I did so, at about 9:35 AM Pacific. When I came back to the board, both of the above problems had been solved! Not sure if it was just coincidence, or whether logging in "fixed" them.

Ditto for me - Once I signed in and re-bookmaked at that point, these problem(s) have not returned.

bent metal

Ted W wrote:

Its hard to say what that might be. Make sure you are running at least 1024 resolution. We are now running the new standard screen size.

I got the same problem. Screen is too big. In order to read a sentence you have to move that bottom scroll bar from left to right.

46HudsonPU

Mike (WA) wrote:

Just "checking in", so you can keep track of how things are working for the proletariat- I noted two of the problems mentioned (no boldface for unread posts, and not returning to where you left off on the thread list). Then I noticed I was not logged in, so I did so, at about 9:35 AM Pacific. When I came back to the board, both of the above problems had been solved! Not sure if it was just coincidence, or whether logging in "fixed" them.

Was the same with the old forum. I clear my 'cookies' often (to rid myself of some that are used for tracking), and always see the same thing you've described - until I log back into the forum.

46HudsonPU

Ted W wrote:

Yes, that is broke right now. We encourage people to go the Motorhood section and start using the photo gallery feature. It is your own area in the website. We will have video training in about 2 weeks. But, the section allows you to have your own blog, photos, comment section, search for members that have the same cars...and lots more.

Hi Ted,
Tried this. Apparently, it requires a login/account separate from the Forum account...
I created & activated an account for myself in the gallery (46HudsonPU), however it will not allow me to create my own album, or post pictures to existing albums. It appears to be a permissions issue, most likely associated with creating a new account (?)... Please look into it and advise, when you get a chance.

rambos_ride

bent metal wrote:

I got the same problem. Screen is too big. In order to read a sentence you have to move that bottom scroll bar from left to right.

Sometimes that happens in a thread when someone posts a large picture - but your issue is most likely your display settings on your local computer.

Unless you're working on a 14-15" monitor - increasing your screen resolution to at least 1024x768 should be supported with your current video card and monitor.

If you're not sure how to change the settings let me know what Operating System you're on and I can help walk you thru the changes.

FYI - The changes to ClassicCar to 1024x may cause some issues, but the trends are moving to higher resolutions for web site viewing.

hudsontech

Thanks for the chart Dan - mine computer is set for 1024 x 768 (whatever) and that seems to make the forum just about the right size for viewing. (I'm using Windows XP).

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

Ted W

46HudsonPU wrote:

Hi Ted,
Tried this. Apparently, it requires a login/account separate from the Forum account...
I created & activated an account for myself in the gallery (46HudsonPU), however it will not allow me to create my own album, or post pictures to existing albums. It appears to be a permissions issue, most likely associated with creating a new account (?)... Please look into it and advise, when you get a chance.

Rick, I know we have a confusion with the "Photo Gallery", which we will be closing sometime in the near future...it is not tied in to the site login system. If you go to http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=frontpage&Itemid=5
and login, you will find your space all ready setup. You just need to enable the photo gallery and you are all set.

Ted W

hudsontech wrote:

Thanks for the chart Dan - mine computer is set for 1024 x 768 (whatever) and that seems to make the forum just about the right size for viewing. (I'm using Windows XP)..

Thanks Alex,

As resolution increases and without changing to meet the new size, the content gets smaller for high resolution users. Most flat panels monitors will not go below 1028 and some not below 1280, so the need to go to the new size.

Also, we have tried to make the site brighter and easier to read. We have taken a great deal of information in to achieve the best over-all presentation.

46HudsonPU

Ted W wrote:

Rick, I know we have a confusion with the "Photo Gallery", which we will be closing sometime in the near future...it is not tied in to the site login system. If you go to http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=frontpage&Itemid=5
and login, you will find your space all ready setup. You just need to enable the photo gallery and you are all set.

Hi Ted,
Thanks! Got my album going, and posted quite a few photos from my collection...

Here's one, as a test -

index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=showimage&tmpl=component&imgid=241&maxW=744&maxH=446

It works!

Ted W

Rick is first out the gate with a fine example of the Motorhood Garage Pages. Here a link into his Garage: http://www.classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=myphotos&userid=46498&Itemid=5

Lee ODell

Ted W wrote:

Rick is first out the gate with a fine example of the Motorhood Garage Pages. Here a link into his Garage: http://www.classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=myphotos&userid=46498&Itemid=5

I tried to access this link to see the hudson pu pictures and the response was: access denied.

What else is needed beside clicking on the link?

Have a good day. Lee

Ted W

Lee, try in now. If it does not work try Lee O_Dell as your user name. I think the new system does not like ' in the user name.

46HudsonPU

Lee O'Dell wrote:

I tried to access this link to see the hudson pu pictures and the response was: access denied.

What else is needed beside clicking on the link?

Have a good day. Lee

Hi Lee,
I checked the settings - It was set for membership only - Which meant that you needed to be a member to view. This is an area separate from the Forum membership.

I have adjusted the settings to allow anyone to view.

rambos_ride

Ted,

Overall I am liking the new site, and I know you are all working hard on polishing the site-up, and my following comments are not meant to be nit-picky.

I am using IE8 on a Win2k8 server OS and when I hit the site the header and thread information is right-aligned as pictured here, then when I refresh the page, or navigate off, and back it returns to left-aligned as normal.

This might be something quirky to IE8, but thought I should let you know.

The only other issues I see are a smattering of graphics images are not resolving the paths and I'm seeing the dreaded "X" instead. And the login area on the upper right is not displaying any text on the button.

Ted W

Your comments are always welcome. Thanks for the kind words on the new site.

I would liken this effort to a restoration project that has gone on for too many years. We got to the point where it was better to just get it back on the road and fix the problems as we go alone.

We had a fender fall off this morning, but got it back on and now we are looking to get all the old parts back on to she is street legal again. Maybe by October we can take her to a show.

Thanks All!!!!

Lee ODell

Ted, thanks for the adjustment making it possible for me

to access this webb site.

Rick, Just yesterday I was wondering if someone had a photo collection of Hudson pu's. You made my day. Thanks for making the adjustment so everyone can view them.

Have a good day. Lee

46HudsonPU

Lee O'Dell wrote:

Ted, thanks for the adjustment making it possible for me
to access this webb site.

Rick, Just yesterday I was wondering if someone had a photo collection of Hudson pu's. You made my day. Thanks for making the adjustment so everyone can view them.

Have a good day. Lee

Np Lee, glad to be able to put my little collection someplace that can be shared. Have been thinking of doing this for quite some time...

I have been adding additional items all day long. Take a look, you'll find some other things of interest as well...

If anyone has suggestions, additions, photos, etc., concerning HET Commercial vehicles, please email me at HETrick_clark@yahoo.com (remove the HET from the email address).

I am looking for any and all photos of Hudson Commercial Vehicles, to include prototypes as well as customs.

As you can see, I do not have many stepdown pickups shown... (hint, hint)...

Lee ODell

Ted W wrote:

Rick is first out the gate with a fine example of the Motorhood Garage Pages. Here a link into his Garage: http://www.classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=myphotos&userid=46498&Itemid=5

This would make a good start for a new thread. Nice photo collection of Hudson Pickups. I'll have to look at the other picture folders on that link.

Have a good day. Lee

Lee ODell

Ted, thanks for your help. There seems to be a little glitch I had today. Nothing serious. Every once in awhile when I try to reply on a post I get sent over to the wrong thread, "Pacemaker tires thread".

Not a problem, I just exit and start over and get sent to the correct thread.

Thanks for all your work and effort to make this one of the best webb sites

on the internet.

Have a good day. Lee

Ted W

Lee O'Dell wrote:

Ted, thanks for your help. There seems to be a little glitch I had today. Nothing serious. Every once in awhile when I try to reply on a post I get sent over to the wrong thread, "Pacemaker tires thread".

Not a problem, I just exit and start over and get sent to the correct thread.

Thanks for all your work and effort to make this one of the best webb sites
on the internet.

Have a good day. Lee

I believe we have corrected the problem you and others were having with the redirect.

46HudsonPU

Ted - Please see this thread... Looks like 'advertisements' is all this person is posting -

http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=62&jfile=showthread.php&t=19282

Addendum: My thanks to Jon, for removal - I am assuming it was Jon, at around 3:00 AM... :rolleyes:

timbersmith

rambos_ride wrote:

Ted,

Overall I am liking the new site, and I know you are all working hard on polishing the site-up, and my following comments are not meant to be nit-picky.

I am using IE8 on a Win2k8 server OS and when I hit the site the header and thread information is right-aligned as pictured here, then when I refresh the page, or navigate off, and back it returns to left-aligned as normal.

This might be something quirky to IE8, but thought I should let you know.

I don't know if this'll help, but I'm using Firefox v. 3.5.2 (Win 2000 OS) and I'm experiencing the same phenomenon as Rambo - with the right-aligned threads. same fix as well - refresh the page and all is good again.

Something else to look into when the time is available.

Lee ODell

Lee O'Dell wrote: »

Ted, thanks for your help. There seems to be a little glitch I had today. Nothing serious. Every once in awhile when I try to reply on a post I get sent over to the wrong thread, "Pacemaker tires thread".

Not a problem, I just exit and start over and get sent to the correct thread.

Thanks for all your work and effort to make this one of the best webb sites

on the internet.

Have a good day. Lee[/QUO

Ted

The same thing happen again just a few minuets ago. Lee

twelch

Thanks, I will send this to the Techs to resolve.

twelch

That's strange.....I will see what can be done to fix. The login system has a few bugs yet.

46HudsonPU

Ted:
Can you do something with the old obsolete area, where some previous pictures were posted? Maybe put it back, but not allow any new pictures to be added? (http://www.classiccar.com/files/)

Quite a few pictures pertaining to my previous threads/posts were hosted from there, and none of the pictures now appear in those threads... I have had a couple of inquiries concerning them, and in most cases I did not keep the photos - That, and even if I did, it would be quite difficult to go back and figure out what went where and re-attaching them...

Thanks for all you are doing!

rambos_ride

timbersmith wrote:

I don't know if this'll help, but I'm using Firefox v. 3.5.2 (Win 2000 OS) and I'm experiencing the same phenomenon as Rambo - with the right-aligned threads. same fix as well - refresh the page and all is good again.

Something else to look into when the time is available.

I also have to refresh the screens quite often just to view threads and get to and respond to private messages.

My guess is the style sheet reference is not being resolved, or it's a page cache setting, but honestly I don't know PHP, just classic ASP and ASP.NET

46HudsonPU

rambos_ride wrote:

I also have to refresh the screens quite often just to view threads and get to and respond to private messages.

My guess is the style sheet reference is not being resolved, or it's a page cache setting, but honestly I don't know PHP, just classic ASP and ASP.NET

Same here, quite often - in fact, I had to do it while attempting to add to this thread...

rambos_ride

46HudsonPU wrote:

Same here, quite often - in fact, I had to do it while attempting to add to this thread...

Ted,

I've got some more data points for you.

I dual boot my laptop so I can use Vista to play games

So, I rebooted to Vista Home Premium which is still running IE7 and have none of the listed formatting or refresh issues on ClassicCar.com's forums sections.

From a programming perspective the latest Firefox and IE8 browsers are much closer in how they render web pages.

I just recently had to do a considerable amount of work re-doing layouts and javascript issues to get my www.pet-alerts.com site to render and work correctly in the newest versions of both browsers.

Even with these changes, I had to make some code branching changes for older versions of IE in the CSS styles and some javascript functions.

On this Vista/IE7 the only buttons not showing up are the Bookmarks images at the bottom of a thread, which is the same thing I see using IE8

I hope the additional information helps you track down the issues.

Dan

twelch

rambos_ride wrote:

Ted,

I've got some more data points for you.

I dual boot my laptop so I can use Vista to play games

So, I rebooted to Vista Home Premium which is still running IE7 and have none of the listed formatting or refresh issues on ClassicCar.com's forums sections.

From a programming perspective the latest Firefox and IE8 browsers are much closer in how they render web pages.

I just recently had to do a considerable amount of work re-doing layouts and javascript issues to get my www.pet-alerts.com site to render and work correctly in the newest versions of both browsers.

Even with these changes, I had to make some code branching changes for older versions of IE in the CSS styles and some javascript functions.

On this Vista/IE7 the only buttons not showing up are the Bookmarks images at the bottom of a thread, which is the same thing I see using IE8

I hope the additional information helps you track down the issues.

Dan

I will forward your suggestions to the developers. Thanks.

twelch

46HudsonPU wrote:

Ted:

Can you do something with the old obsolete area, where some previous pictures were posted? Maybe put it back, but not allow any new pictures to be added? (http://www.classiccar.com/files/)

Quite a few pictures pertaining to my previous threads/posts were hosted from there, and none of the pictures now appear in those threads... I have had a couple of inquiries concerning them, and in most cases I did not keep the photos - That, and even if I did, it would be quite difficult to go back and figure out what went where and re-attaching them...

Thanks for all you are doing!

I will put that on the list to add back. Remember, you can go to your Motorhood Garage page and setup a photo gallery to post in the Forums.

Thanks!

Ted

onerare39

Ted,

When I try to upload a picture of my 1939 112 Hudson, to insert into a reply I get the following message,

1939 112 002 (Small).jpg: This is not a valid image file.

The picture file is a 640 X 480 JPEG

This problem came up after your recent update.

Thanks,

John Forkner

rambos_ride

onerare39 wrote:

Ted,

When I try to upload a picture of my 1939 112 Hudson, to insert into a reply I get the following message,

1939 112 002 (Small).jpg: This is not a valid image file.

The picture file is a 640 X 480 JPEG

This problem came up after your recent update.

Thanks,
John Forkner

John - try renaming the file without the spaces...

onerare39

Dan & Ted,

I renamed the file without spaces, tried to upload and got the same reply.

1939112002(Small).jpg: This is not a valid image file.

John

RL Chilton

I am still having a problem trying to post pictures. I've gone to the motorhood site, set up my garage and have uploaded pictures there. Whilst in a "New Thread", I switch windows to the motorhood- my garage area where my pictures have been uploaded. I then right-click on the picture, switch back to my "new thread" in another open window, right click in the text area, and "Paste" is grayed out.

onerare39

Have we lost our administrator?

twelch

Like This??

index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=showimage&tmpl=component&imgid=601&maxW=744&maxH=446

twelch

RL Chilton wrote:

I am still having a problem trying to post pictures. I've gone to the motorhood site, set up my garage and have uploaded pictures there. Whilst in a "New Thread", I switch windows to the motorhood- my garage area where my pictures have been uploaded. I then right-click on the picture, switch back to my "new thread" in another open window, right click in the text area, and "Paste" is grayed out.

In FireFox, go to your gallery image, open it up the large size...not a thumbnail, and right click and select [ COPY IMAGE LOCATION ]....then in the Forum, just paste the link. I need to look at IE to see if it is the same. Back in a few.....

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