New Website Layout

[Timbo]

And the layout looks good AB. I see some dodgy AB graphics on the patrol door too! haha.. Microsoft paint? :P

[Chops]

I didn't see the old layout but I like this one. It does appear to need more action, (user input) I hate a dead forum. I was Administrator of a forum for online gaming until only a few weeks ago, until the game died and the players went off playing other games. Put the word around people, I would like to see this forum grow with people who like to input.

I like the fact the server is hosted in Melbourne.

[AB]

Cheers for all your comments guys! I'll fix the text layout up soon.

Thanks Rob, yeah I know a fair bit bit about Google Adsense too so thats an area I'll head down soon. Being a new site you shouldn't throw Adsense on until atleast 6 months.

I will NEVER charge anyone to use this site as it will crumble in seconds.

Ebay ads will generate 20cents a click and similar margins with Adsense. Thinking about putting Adsense on the forum below the first post and the bottom but it will only show up for visitors so members will never see the adds which is good!

More to come soon!

[Chops]

Judging by the 7,000 guests at any one time, its obvious there are quite a few bots and spiders roaming the forum, so this site should be seen by plenty of people doing a "Nissan" or "Patrol" search on either of the search engines.

[AB]

For sure, Google has now promoted us to a suggested site if you type in NissanPatrol without a space which is getting us thousands of hits now.

[AB]

And the layout looks good AB. I see some dodgy AB graphics on the patrol door too! haha.. Microsoft paint? :P

Illustrator big guy, what kind of hack do you take me for...lol

[Woof]

AB, you have done a bloody brilliant job on this site, taking it from nothing to where it is now...........again thanks for the invite to join.
There are a lot of us who are willing to assist you in any way we can, all you have to do is ask mate.
Some of us do act a bit feral every now and again (not me though) but the offer is always there.

[AB]

Thanks Doggie, appreciate the kind words mate!

Well, I had to restart the forum tonight and we also must have got penalised a wee bit from google as I have noticed we lost a lot of current visitors.

This was expected but as mentioned earlier, rather it happens now then later.

[NissanGQ4.2]

i new there was an error on the main page AB and its been bugging me............. i just couldn't figure it out till now.................. somebody put a picture of a GU there when clearly its meant to be a GQ. Can we have the error rectified asap *L*

[Chops]

AB, how much traffic is the site currently generating in a week or for the last month. The reason I ask is I would like to be able to work out a way to combine all the Manuals onto one server, photos can be hosted on other servers (Imageshack etc), but it seems best to have all the manuals hosted in one secure place. Having good, hard to find manuals lost due to members leaving and hosting links broken is a pain in the ass, especially when you have to keep uploading them.

There`s got to be a better way to host these files. I'm uploading another lot of Manuals (Patrol GU Service) to a different host, and at 160mb, I don't want to have to keep doing it. So far I have uploaded around 500mb of Manuals etc.