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Server Update!

Monday, April 12th, 2010

We have been busy! You may have been thinking about when to get your spring cleaning started and so have we. We have evaluated some major issues with out network and have been working hard to give everyone a better experience. One of our main goals is to be transparent to all our users and communicate what is happening in the Your Scene Network. Here are some details that should get you excited…

We have moved all sites to a new server. In the past couple months users may have experienced errors as result of the previous server such as general php errors, page load errors, and sometimes even a blank page. Users should see significant speed increases and no more errors caused by the server. This should create a much more enjoyable web experience! (If you experience any future problems please contact us at info@yourscenenetwork.com so we can resolve them.)

There has been problems with users staying logged into our sites and we know the frustrations this has caused. We are happy to say that this should be resolved with the move to our new server! (Users may want to delete their existing cookie, please contact a scene site admin for more help.)

This year will be another great one for us as we look forward to using your input to make the sites more inviting and user friendly. We would like to combine elements from the previous versions and our most recent version to make the sites as best as they can be.
With the trend of mobile devices increasing daily we see that as a great opportunity to develop a mobile version for all our sites. This ain’t no mom n’ pop internet experience anymore! We will be sure to keep in touch as there will be many more features coming in 2010.
Finally, we know many of you are apart of clubs and we would like to offer our expertise and experience through a forum based website for your club. If you are interested please contact us at info@yourscenenetwork.com so we can discuss those possiblities.
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By AJ Tardio

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Wiki -> Techi …a brief history and introduction

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I was recently asked, “So what is this Techi project on all the scene sites?” Well let me try to give some background and more information about this community project.

Brief History. Right from their website, “Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project.” A “wiki” is a type of collaborative website and “pedia” just comes from the word encyclopedia. The purpose of a wiki is for a community of users to collaborate together and contribute articles that provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information. A wiki is edited by anyone in the world and is done by volunteers. Here are a few examples so you can see what a wiki looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

Introduction to the Techi. In our network, we have users that have so much experience and deep desire to help others that we are beginning to develop a community project called the Techi. It is a collaboration that will be unique to each of our websites and will involve all our users. There are 3 levels of contributors to our Techi project: any Website user, Techi Moderator, and Techi Administrator.

Website user - Any registered user on our sites that can post information for the Moderators to review.
Techi Mod - Registered users that have been chosen to review all infromation contributed by the website’s users
Techi Admin - Website Admins will choose the Mods to manage all information and will have the final decision on the organization and infrastructure of the data collected.

Infrastructure. The basic setup will be a new forum section added called “Techi.” In this section, there will be subsections that a user can choose from. Within a subsection, a user can start a new thread or contribute to an existing thread. Then the Mods will collect this information and begin to post under the outline that has been setup by the Admins. You can see a basic outline here for MazdaBscene.com: http://mazdabscene.com/techi/index.html

So keep your eyes peeled, we will be adding this new Forum section soon and hope you can be apart of this community project. The Techi will only be as good as what our users can contribute, so we hope that you can help us out! This will be as simple as finding old/new threads on the site that store the technical information we are looking for. Or maybe you can dig deep into other sources like paper/pdf Manuals or other Internet sources. The Techi’s main purpose is to provide a primary source of information for a “scene site” vehicle make/model for all users or visitors. Keep an eye out, it’s coming soon to a scene site near you…

by AJ Tardio
03.25.2009

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Garage Tutorial

Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Add New Vehicle

1. Start of by going to the Rides tab on the website. Then click on New Vehicle to add your ride.

2. Fill in the required fields, and any additional fields that you would like.

3. At the bottom there are two fields to highlight. The Build thread would be the hyperlink to the thread from our projects forum. Also attach an image of your vehicle from your computer.

4. Click Create New Vehicle and you’re done! Here is what you will see with a successful upload.


Edit Vehicle

1. Click Edit Vehicle near the bottom in the Manage Vehicle Actions section.

2. There are two tabs to Edit your vehicle, the first is the Vehicle Info tab. Here you can edit all the basic information about your vehicle.

3. The Images tab allows you to add more pictures. Browse on your computer for an image, then click Add New Image. You can also remove Images here also.


New Modification

1. Click on New Modification.

2. In the new window, begin choosing the type of modification in the drop down menus. When you see a field that is not listed, click on the “Not Listed? Click Here” link.

3. Here we have the Add New Business window. Please create the Business name, and any other additional info you would like to contribute. Then click Add New Business.

4. When you are ready to go, click Add Modification to complete your addition.

New Quarter Mile

1. Click on New Quarter Mile.

2. Add appropriate information for 1/4 mile time.

3. Click Add New Time when you are finished.

Guestbook

1. Add your entry in the text box and click “Post Comment”

2. Now you can see how the entries look one after another.


Modifications

1. All of your modifications for your vehicle will be listed here.


Blog

1. All of your modifications for your vehicle will be listed here.

2. This is what it will look like after you begin to make entries. The Header, the date of entry, and then your text below. You can also edit or delete the entry right beside the date.

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Show/Hide Chat Feature

Monday, February 9th, 2009

We are at it again! As you may have noticed at the bottom of all our pages is a quick snapshot of the activity in our chat room. After getting some feedback, we have added a Show/Hide feature that will pop out the chat if you would like to see it. By default it is in the hide mode.

Hide

Show

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The Storm Begins 6:30 est.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I’m excited to announce that the Storm is beginning Today at 6:30 est! Most Storms are bad, but this one is good, and will be good for everyone except a few particular organizations. I know you are thinking “What is he talking about?” , but it should make sense mid-3rd quarter 2009 just intime for the real hurricane season.

|Stat Tuned| Current Status: Steady Breeze

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Scene Site Section/Sub Section Update

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

As you know the Scene Sites are about to go through a major upgrade! Pre upgrade we have asked you guys what you felt about the current forum Sections/Sub Sections. Thank you for all the feed back. You guys have alot of good ideas, and also good ideas to add new features!

NYTRDR24 from MazdaBScene had a very good list of suggestions! The rest I collected I combined with his list.

Suggestions——————————————————–

Media———–
Photoshop Section

Tech————-
Fabrication Section

Tire Rim Section

Drive Train Forum
With Five subsections Engine, Tranny, Rear axle, Fuel system & Tech write ups pertaining to the drive train, then in the engine
sub section place the oem engine’s like you have now 2.6, 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.6 plus have one for like now for engine swaps, in the Tranny sub section have a place for manual tranny & automatics and tranny swaps, then in the rear axle sub section have a place for solid axle, and one for independant rears, and maybe one for axle swaps. in the fuel system section everyone can post about fuel cells and such, then in the tech write up section everyone can put their tech articles pertaining to the drivetrain…

Chassis Forum
Sub sections for oem/static suspension, one for bags, one for juice, one for wheel/tire info, and one for tech write up pertaining to chassis.

Body Forum
Sub sections like you do now interior / exterior 94 & up, int/ext 86-93, int/ext pre-84, and a tech write up section.

Security & Audio
Sub sections for Security, Head units, speakers, video, boxes & consoles and maybe nav systems & a tech write up section.

Meets & Events————
State by State Sections

Flea Market—————–
Subsections for Parts for example Adjustable Suspension Section Classfieds

Site Specific—————–
Dually Tech Section

After the Moderator & Admin meeting I’ll announce the changes and the next phase of development!

Links To Original Threads:

MazdaBScene.com - http://www.mazdabscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14985
YotaScene.com - http://www.yotascene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3878
DuallyScene.com - http://www.duallyscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3569
IsuzuScene.com - http://www.isuzuscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=458

Check back for updates!

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Overhaul Phase 1 Pt 1

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Good Evening Everyone,

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. First I would like to say thank you to everyone who has contributed to the community. When AJ and I started these sites we never thought they would get this big! Also thanks for your patience in dealing with the site hick ups in June/July they have since been resolved.

So as most of you know there is more than just this site in our network. We are building a community of websites that will be linked together. You may have noticed since July 2008, there has been alot of behind the scenes work going on. There is still alot of behind the scene work to do but we would like to have your input as well. Afterall this is your scene! The overall plan is to have our own software based on the best open source applications phpbb, and wordpress. If you didn’t know already AJ and myself are heavily into IT, and welcome any coders that would like to be part of the development team. Before I let myself get to carried away about the new features we have planned for you guys I need to stick to the present.

Shape Your Scene
To kick off the upgrade project we are going to start with Site reOrganization. We have started a thread for you to add your thoughts as to what sections there should be, which ones could be combined, and which ones need to be added. As always we listen to your suggestions and many times put them into action. To view the threads pertaining to each site follow these links.

DuallyScene-http://duallyscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3569
IsuzuScene-http://isuzuscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=458
MazdaBScene-http://mazdabscene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14985
YotaScene-http://yotascene.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3878

Your Scene Network is Blogtacular
Introducing Your Scene Network Blog -http://yourscenenetwork.com

We have created a site to share up coming news regarding the Your Scene Network and also general thoughts, or just see what random thoughts we have. We will also feature the results of the member suggestions. I never thought we would have a blog, but alot of the comments I read from you guys are very entertaining I wanted to see what happens.

Overhaul Phase 1 Part 1
We will be able to provide more detailed information as phase 1 part 1 is near completion. Phase 1Part 1 is just the Site Reorganization, which will include new forums, subforums, and many thread moves. The biggest change to the scene sites will be from upgrading to phpbb3.0, and the installation of Wordpress a content management system. These two applications will serve as the base of our own software after the overhaul project is complete.

To see the new features added by phpbb3.0 follow this link:

http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

Upcoming Overhaul Projects Include:

-Member of the Month
-Techipedia
-Tech Gallery
-Upgrade to phpbb3.0
-Classifieds
-and much much more!

Stay Tuned!

P.S. New Tshirts are coming to!

Robert Bahurinsky
Your Scene Network

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