LEC Forum Makeover

[Doug]

Welcome all--back to the LEC Forum!

We had an unfortunate event with the old host of the website, which rendered the old Forum dead. Through the generous help of Tony Stevens, we have moved the site to a new webhost and decided to 'upgrade' the Forum to its present state!

The Forum is a new/different program, but works much the same as the old one. Each user should re-check and update their profile, as some information was lost/removed in the conversion. There will be some new features added in the near future to make this Forum more fun and informative than the old one.

I must give many thanks to Tony, and his compatriot, Liz, for making this Forum happen as you see it. This upgrade has surpassed my novice/terrible computer skills and is a testament to the hard work of Tony and Liz !!!

We will get the smilies back up; you will have to re-upload your avtar; and bear with us as we get the bearings greased up . . .

Glad to be back, and see you all around the Forum !!

--Doug

[TStevens]

Thanks Doug, Liz has put in a huge amount of work, and as you can see her artistic skills have really paid off, as I said in the initial emails, it's hard to pull off a 'Yellow & Green' website, but she's managed it!

Most of my work was the more background stuff to do with getting the files off the old webhost, which was a mission in itself as the webhost/FTP would only show 998 files per folder, and some, like the forum messages, had 10,000+ files in them. Then the task of converting the YaBB's somewhat inefficient method of storing everything in individual text files, into a very efficient SQL database.

Liz orriginally offered to make a template for the pages/forum, but she's ended up doing much much more, (and she's so better at it than me)

Not all of the pages have been completed yet, but the most important stuff has been done, over the next couple of weeks these will be finished off, and anything new people have to add can be put into shiny new pages too.

I hope you all feel the wait was worth it.

[Sy V]

I'd just like to add my thanks to the refurb team.

Brilliant work, thanks for all your efforts.

Sy

[Philbo]

Love the new look guys and thanks for all your hard work to get the new improved version back online!

Awesome.

Philbo

[rjbean]

well done and thanks to all. much appreciated

[M6TT F]

Wahey! we're back - just like to pass on my appreciation for all the hard work that's been put in to get the site back up and running!


well done all!

[WillB]

Top work guys, good to have the old girl back with a new face-lift!

[PAUL30]

looks great.

[KevH]

great work everyone
Kev

[Neil D.]

Nice work, and the new layout is refreshing

Well done

Neil

[rob]

Looking good Guys & Gal.

Alot of hard work must have gone into this, well done.

[ajax317]

Really looking great, love it - thanks everyone involved for all the hard work, can't believe how quickly you've got it all together.

[Stef]

I'm here! I'm here! Back at LEC!

Coooooooool!

Like the new style.

[delta]

Great work guys.
This ugly duckling did turn out to be a swan afterall.

[davidjt]

Congratulations on a really professional job.

[Michael]

Really great to see LEC is on-line again!
Nice work as well.
I'll drink to that

[Monty]

Well done to those involved in getting the New LEC up and running, it`s looking pinktastic LOL.

[Nige]

Said it before but it's worth saying again, crackin' new layout and all a bit speedy too. Thanks to all.

[F1 LOTUS]

I was rather hoping the new site would keep the riff-raff out, but I managed to get in anyway!
Super job chaps, well played

[wilcox]

Ha,

technology did not let us down in the end. A hooray for all those volunteers closely involved

wilco