Site news: weblog, registry, and more
As you can see, we’ve moved forward with these weblogs, adding the ability to view them by writer. If you have a weblog, you can easily grab your particular URL to personalize it for other people. This approach lets users easily reach whatever is newest, while still being able to find items by topic or by writer. Eventually we’ll make the interface smoother and nicer.
I recently added a security update to Invisionboard. As always, it broke components - the blogs and the Garage feature both died, as they always do. Invisionboard was not written with updates in mind; the new installer works by the “start over from scratch” method… at least with regard to files. But at least now the weblogs menu item brings people over here! The Garage will have to be fixed later.
I really need to get the Garage to stand alone, away from Invisionboard, so it won’t be affected by upgrades. Of course, I’d just LOVE to use the Fusion Registry system, but it hasn’t been written yet…! For that matter, our custom registry system is still in its infancy and I doubt it will progress further. I’ve written to both the FusionRegistry guy, Matt, and to the MGB Experience guy who seems to have his own registry software. The ideal is to get the existing Garage entries into a very flexible new registry system that can support all kinds of custom data fields, some of which are kept VERY private; and for this new system to be very secure, more so than the Invisionboard setup, so personal information is kept, um, personal. We do have some funds for developing this, so let me know if you can help.
All this coding stuff takes away editing time…
By the way, I hope you noticed and liked the new Hudson article. We have coming up Gerard Wilson’s compilation of postwar Chrysler material, and something on the 1935 Plymouths, as well as continued work on our backlog. We’ve been making corrections and small updates continuously, as well, without fanfare.
Once again, I implore you to sign up for Hemi Challenger to show, last year I saw bunches of EEKs, Rams, PTs, and all sorts of other Chryslers at Carlisle, which you can do on-line; when you fill out the form to enter your car, be SURE to put Allpar under “Club.” We need 25 people to pay for our tent, but the more people we get the better placement the tent gets, and we’d like to be right in the middle of the field! So please sign up… I have no problem springing for a second tent if we get enough people (and if they let us do it!). I think we can get a little gift pack together for attendees as well, in addition to the one Carlisle provides. $35 (for the first car) gives you free parking (that is, you can park on the show field) and attendance for the entire weekend; it’s a bargain! And you don’t need a perfect 1970 cars, all in their own sections. We’ll be showing one 1974 Valiant and one 2000 300M, both bone stock - one slant six and one standard 3.5 (my wife doesn’t want to take the PT!) - so if you have a Daytona, LeBaron, Reliant, Sundance…it can be shown. We are Allpar and Mopar, united under the big tent! So sign up now…click here!
