New Forum Features - July 14th 2002

[Admin]

Dear users,

 

As most of you might have already noticed, we have upgraded to a new version of the forum. The most noticeable difference may be some of the new and exciting features that you will see on the site and they are listed below.

 

New Animated Smilies - We have included new smilies for you to better express yourself. They include animated smilies for all kinds of moods.

 

Custom User Avatars - Have your own avatars to shout out your identity. This is the user icon that you see below your nickname on each postings. You can upload your own user avatars via the "Edit Profile" -> "User Profile" link at the top of the page. Note that the max size of each avatar is limited to 65kb. We only accept jpg and gifs(animated is ok) and the max size of each is 100x120 pixels. Any larger would be automatically scale down to this size.

 

Watched Threads - Now you can watch any thread and receive an email whenever a new posting is posted to it. To receive email notification, all you need to do is to click on the "Watch Thread" link at the top of each forum. (Next to the page numbers) and you are set. To change any of these, you just need to go to "Edit Profile" -> "Watched Thread"

 

Replies to your postings - After you made a posting and you click on "Send email notification & alert me via homepage on reply", you will receive an email when any user replies to you. Not only that, you also get a prompt when you next go to our homepage. You will see a link right at the top of the page informing you that you have new replies.

 

Who's Online - We now provide a "Who's Online" link right at the top of the page so you can catch if your buddies is online.

 

Faster Loading Homepage - We have made various optimisation to the code so that less database calls is required to generate the homepage. You should be able to notice the speedup.

 

Some other stuff which is not immediately apparent is that this new version also incorporate a lot of bug fixes. Hence this should hopefully fix some of the bugs that you may have noticed on the site.

 

You may have also noticed that the interface and colour has slightly changed. When we used the old version, we made a lot of customisation so that it is as easy and as simple to use as possible. After the upgrade, we need to redo most of the customisation all over again. This is still in progress so do not panic if you find yourself lost.

 

Have fun with this new version of the forum. Any feedback and suggestions, please do so in the Feedback forum.

 

Regards.

 

P.S. : If you bother to read this far, check out this frames version which we did long ago but never roll out coz it looks ugly.

http://www.mycarforum.com/frames.html

Edited July 15, 2002 by Admin