ClassicCar

@J Lombard I've looked that up, and it seems as a feature it was dropped in the latest versions of Kunena (the old version of the forum software). Could you instead copy and paste into Word, or some other text editor?

Guys, I'm a newbie at forums. How do I go about posting a picture with an article I've written about a Hudson Essex Service sign dedication?

Bob C.

Bob C - there's a video guide on how to post at Forum 'how to' videos

In a nutshell, click the Start A New Discussion button (top right of this page), be sure to put it in under the Hudson area, type your text in the Write Comment box, and click the Image button (third from the right on the top of the Write Comment box) to add your image. Press Post Comment, and it's done.

I'm also seeing these issues. I'll have the technical wonks look into it, with a high priority.

Re. only seeing the last post, try it again now guys - we have just put in a fix on this. Just to be sure, refresh the page when you next visit, and it will be fine.

And Jon, we are already looking at some new themes that address some of the very things you mention.

Hi Bob. The solution for that is I think to make use of the ability to add a 'signature' to your posts. If you click your user name and go to your profile page, there's an option there 'Signature Settings'. Those that want to make their location known, or the model(s) of Hudson, Essex, Terraplane, etc that they own, etc. I could, for instance, add "The Blues for State of Origin 2012!" as a signature to my posts. :)

Can I also suggest you take the space out of your username - it would allow me to have used the @ reply feature, and you would have been alerted that I had replied to you.

@bigboy308 Yes, we have found a problem with Internet Explorer and the search function. It's been ticketed, and the developers will attend to it. In the meantime, it will work if you press the Enter button on your computer to start the search, rather than the green 'Go' button. Also, if using a multiple word search term put a '+' in front - i.e. +dove gray

Firstly, thanks to Jon for the voice of reason here. To which I will add a few other points.

The "if it ain't broke don't fix it" comments - you may not have seen it on the front end, but the back-end of the forum was more than a little bit broken. A quite major change took place in 2009, that can be traced directly as a cause of some of the changeover issues we faced. Also, the forum is a part of the ClassicCar site. As the site changed - and it had to change, as we added content, took off ads, added classifieds - so too did the forum need to change, both on a software level, and on a design level. The old site was essentially stagnant in terms of content. There's already a lot more content on the site than there used to be, and we have only just begun. And if any of you would like to author some articles for publication on the site, I'd be happy to discuss this with you.

Design - I've worked in book, magazine and web publishing, for 15 years or so. In every publication I've worked on, in every industry, I've come to know that designers are better at design than I. This has been especially been driven home to me on my own site I work on in my spare time - thankfully designers have offered me advice and help, rather than just let me loose with my rudimentary Photoshop and Illustrator skills. We publisher and content types suggest changes, sure, but then designers always take the comments and make things even better than we had envisaged with our feedback. As for opinions of colour, that's subjective. We've had user testing sessions conducted on the site - the whole ClassicCar site - for months, and the opinion on the look has been almost unanimously positive. Still, we continue to welcome any constructive criticism from all comers.

Forum layout - as Jon B mentioned above, the forum we have have right now was a template, that has to a point dictated the layout. That said, having the forum up now, using it ourselves, and talking with the moderators and forum members, we can see that we can make the main forum page better - for instance bigger heading fonts, more distinction between topic areas. Just give us a little time to move to this, and it is something we will be discussing with the Moderators prior to pushing this change live.

So, in closing, I would again ask for patience, and understanding. Issues with the forum are becoming fewer, and from what we can see there are a lot of forum members back in the swing of things, discussing classic cars freely and widely. And we're seeing a real upswing in traffic across the board, which we're pretty chuffed about. Again, this is early days, but the new site already has considerably more content than did the old,and we hope in addition to the forum you enjoy the other parts of the site.

As regards our commitment to the forum, both Ben and I worked long hours over every day of the Easter break rather than spending time with our families. Even the other day when this latest burst of critique occurred, when I was corresponding with a few of you, and investigating issues, I was doing so at 2.00 in the morning, and then again yesterday on what was a public holiday.

Lastly, please know that in addition to being 'web' guys, Ben and I are huge classic car fans.

Hi Lee. Yes, at some point a little way down the road we will be providing the ability to login on the Forums pages themselves, rather than having you go to a sign in page and then navigate to the Forums.

I'm pleased to hear that you're making headway with all of the 'new', and if we can help at all please let us know, either here, or via our Contact Us page.