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Hello Everyone,

We're proud to announce that the new site look and feel has been completed for VolusiaRiders.com! Our designers and software engineers have been hard at work on this for several months. It's designed to modernize the site, make it easier to use, and to make it more attractive to new members and guests that visit .

The forum software we use, vBulletin, by default is not designed to be friendly to the eyes or to look modern. We went down to the nuts and bolts of the forum software and templates, and have done a ground up approach. There are several things you will notice now that the new design is live.

1) The site should be significantly faster.

We have applied every modern technique to speed up page load and tested with all modern browsers. We want the forum to be extremely fast and easy to use.

2) The site will work much better in mobile and tablet views

We've started applying responsive design, and have designed and tested against android and iPhone devices, Android tablets, and iPads. If you are sitting at your desk or on your couch, or just on your phone, the site will work much better than it did before, and load fast. We are still working on improving the experience even further in the months to come, but we wanted to launch this as quickly as we could.

3) The homepage is bright, crisp and clean.

We wanted the first page users saw to look beautiful, so that when a new guest arrives and is debating whether to join VolusiaRiders.com, they see a beautiful doorway, and they walk right in.

As a forum member you can choose to use the new design (which is on by default) or you can go back to the old design. We ask that you give it a chance and see if you like it. Like anything new, it will be unfamiliar at first, but we suspect that the speed difference will make you want to use this new one. If you do decide to switch back, the link is at the bottom left of each forum page, you pull down and select the theme called "VolusiaRiders Classic or Classic Dark".

4) Garages will be featured on the site

You can show off your Volusia, You can post pictures in your garage and share it with others. Make sure you post up some images to share with the community at the link below.

http://www.volusiariders.com/garage.php?do=editgarage

5) Users will be able to register with Facebook, Twitter or Google+

6) The side bar can be hidden in your user options.

Click on my profile / user cp at the top right.

- click on edit your details on the left.
- Look for Show Sidebar on Forum Pages under Additional Information.
- Click disable and save.

7) Another new great feature is the @Mention user plugin. You can tag members by simply using the @ symbol.

8) Drag and Drop image uploader

We hope you enjoy it, and if you have any questions on the design, please let us know, feedback is appreciated.

If there are any issues you see. Post them up here and we will get them worked out.

Thanks,
-Your VolusiaRiders.com Team.
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how do i get rid of the recent discussion on the right hand side?
it takes up room and moves if i resize my browser window
Scroll down the page, and to the bottom left, choose the classic page.
Next, click on the plus symbol at top, right, just above the recent discussions.

Now, go back to the new page, or one of the others, free of recent discussions.
Seems that with the new front page, you'll still lose that right side as compared to the other front page offerings.

Not certain if this will be permanent, just yet.
We need to give the techs some time to work their magic.
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Scroll down the page, and to the bottom left, choose the classic page.
Next, click on the plus symbol at top, right, just above the recent discussions.

Now, go back to the new page, or one of the others, free of recent discussions.

column is still there, i want it completely gone
how do i get rid of the recent discussion on the right hand side?
it takes up room and moves if i resize my browser window
Details in first post:

6) The side bar can be hidden in your user options.

Click on my profile / user cp at the top right.

- click on edit your details on the left.
- Look for Show Sidebar on Forum Pages under Additional Information.
- Click disable and save.

Jeff
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Details in first post:

6) The side bar can be hidden in your user options.

Click on my profile / user cp at the top right.

- click on edit your details on the left.
- Look for Show Sidebar on Forum Pages under Additional Information.
- Click disable and save.

Jeff

only for subs
column is still there, i want it completely gone
I just edited my post above, fwiw.
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Scroll down the page, and to the bottom right, choose the classic page.
Next, click on the plus symbol at top, right, just above the recent discussions.

Now, go back to the new page, or one of the others, free of recent discussions.
Seems that with the new front page, you'll still lose that right side as compared to the other front page offerings.

Not certain if this will be permanent, just yet.
We need to give the techs some time to work their magic.
@Psyc0 - Thanks.

Users can turn off the sidebar and also revert to the older classic skins or new dark theme in the bottom left hand corner drop down.

Jeff
how do i get rid of the recent discussion on the right hand side?
it takes up room and moves if i resize my browser window

From above...

6) The side bar can be hidden in your user options.

Click on my profile / user cp at the top right.

- click on edit your details on the left.
- Look for Show Sidebar on Forum Pages under Additional Information.
- Click disable and save.


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only for subs
Give us a few to work on it, there is still two teams working on the back end currently.

Jeff
thanx for giving the option of staying in the past with the old format...works for me.
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Okay, I like the color and the overall impact is good.............much easier on the eyes. I'll use it for now and "adjust' later if I don't like it.
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Thanks for continuing to improve the stuff behind the screens we all see.
Ok all,

The conversion is complete, take her for a spin and let me know if you have any questions or find any issues.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

Jeff
will it ever remember my password?
I like the lighter color, not so hard on they eyes!

Tom
Picture drag & drop seems to have issues. It looks OK in the editing window but disappears when I try to post, plus it then gives me a message that I have too many characters, like 49,000 or something like that. I'm assuming the coding is screwed up somewhere...
will it ever remember my password?
Yes - try clearing your cache and doing a log out/in and check the "remember me" check box next to log in info.

Jeff
Yes - try clearing your cache and doing a log out/in and check the "remember me" check box next to log in info.

Jeff

you do realize i have info from many sites stored i do not want to clear.
you do realize i have info from many sites stored i do not want to clear.
10-4, you can choose to do just this site or try a Shift F5 refresh on this page.

Jeff
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