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[Heath]

I have a video of Bomber ripping a skid in his garage

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This was on the old Ezboard Forum. So there you go, straight from the boss himself when this site started.

V8gent
constantly building torries
Posts: 61
(7/26/01 11:52:24 pm)

�  Re: Website...
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about 6 months ago i set up a torana forum to help troy, owner of the holden torana web site (torana.ion), because the old one was full of eeediots troy didn't seem interested in moderating it. so, i put a new one together on the coolboard system. not long after, troy's site went down and he told me he was setting up a new site, which is great but this site is to include all makes of holdens and he wanted forums to suit. i felt however that a torana centric forum would still work well and suit us torry enthusiast better so when coolboard notified it's intention to close, it was a good opportunity to setup up a Torana forum and so i did here.

i want these forums to be a true comminuty place. i don't consider these forums mine, they are ours. i've added tinkerz (qld torrie club) and enderwiggenau (sydney torrie club) along myself (vic torie club) as forum moderators so we have a good spread of enthusaists who can help run the community. it's going well so far and we all seem happy with it so great

thinking along the lines of a better torrie community i started adding a 'torrie projects' page to my agentorange website but now i think the torrie community would be better served with a dedicated site. i run a few websites already (agentorange, vic torrie club, a tfc clan & these forums) and i don't find time now to regularly update them all so if you guys want to do one that would be fantastic and i'm sure you'd have everyone's support. i'll help where i can, be it layout, info whatever. i can provide hosting space if need too.

first place to start is to find a location where you want to put up the site. i's suggest you make sure you can put up to 10-20mg at the location. i can help secure an appropriate domain name from a free service site of you want. next, decide who exactly you want to target with the website and layout how you want to deliver the content. once you have that sorted then start on the page design that is simple to maintain yet snazzy enough not to bore people to death. setting up a few mock-up sites will help you work out how you want it to look. last step let a few of us know and we can check it out for you for a bit of testing like. then once you're happy set it free and watch grow into a helpful and fun site to visit.

...and no need to ask, of course you can, please add the forums as a link. in fact, if some of you are going to collaborate in building it, i'd suggest you may want to use a forum here to discuss it's progress. i'm quite happy to setup another forum for thr website. it can be password protected it if you want to keep things quiet whilst you build it.

let me know if i can help.

cheers.

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Bit more background

hustler
Registered User
Posts: 8
(9/30/01 8:00:12 pm)
The Holden Torana Website - LATEST UPDATE
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Howdy fellow net freaks.

Since the closure of my last webpage which was the holden torana website - torana.ion.tm, i have been working on a new site.

As you may have heard its going to be up soon, so i will make posts here and if Agent can give me a little paragraph on his main site it would help.

Thanks
Troy

ps. URL will be posted

V8gent 
constantly building torries
Posts: 288
(9/30/01 9:51:15 pm)

  Re: The Holden Torana Website - isn't it a all holden site?
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hey troy,

will do so no probs..

i have one question though, why are yo unow doing a torana site again? what happaned to the all holdens site?

hustler
GMHTW Visitor

Posts: 10
(10/3/01 7:36:06 pm)
New Holden Dedicated Website
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Hey V8Agent, sorry if i gave you the wrong idea, it will be an all holden site. I have nothing against ford or toyota or any other, i just wanted to span the webpage to more then just torana enthusiests. So i made it all holden for now.

Is there another Holden Torana website made, i have been browsing the forums for months and here alot of talk but i havent visited a URL yet.

The new page will be for any holden driver from toranas to geminis to barinas. So i will keep you guys updated, just having a few problems setting up a box to run the website from but it will all be up very soon.

Thanks
Troy
Mr T

V8gent 
constantly building torries

Posts: 307
(10/3/01 8:40:38 pm)

  Re: New Holden Dedicated Website
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lol troy - these forums are part of a torana website  click the home button top left or just go here:

gmh-torana.ownstheworld.com


looking forward to seeing your new site, how long now?

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And this was from the main page once changed over to the GMH-Torana.com domain and this site was born. I'm still trying to find the dates from when it has crashed and we have moved to different versions.

Welcome to the new website - by V8gent 19:34, 12/02/03
    Welcome to the new website. "What's new about it?" you may ask. Well the web pages and forums are now hosted on the one site. Obviously the look has changed a little but not dramatically so. no sense in fixing something that broke.... All the content is is here, plus more and all necessary updates and corrections have been done. Hopefully this makes for a better site.

"Why was the change made?" you might ask? There was a necessary change required for the forums and with the move to the new forums, it only made sense to have the web pages and forums hosted together. "What was necessary about the change in forums?" you may ask. Simply, it came down to two main reasons; cost and maintenance.

Cost: ezboard have once again upped their pricing structure to the point where it became beyond a fair and reasonable cost for a non-sponsored community based website to sustain. for 12 months of ad-free ezboard membership the would be AU$550 p/a and this figure would only increase as more members come along. Even with the generous contributions given by various members, this cost is was unreasonable. Thanks to Imagineering Technology, our new website host, this cost is greatly reduced.

Maintenance: Moving to new forums, the Webmaster (er, that's me!) can have complete control over the forum software and usage. If there�s bug, I can fix it (hopefully) and we don't without having to wait and rely on ezboard. If there's a change or enhancement required i we wait and rely on ezboard. I�ve chosen a powerful forum package called phpBB which hopefully many of you are familiar with but if not, it�s not hard to pick up. The search function actually works in the new forums as opposed to ezboards attempt. The new forums allow more customisation and the forums and threads are much easier to maintain by the moderators and myself. As well, to ensure your valuable contributions to the Tech Help forums on ezboard, most of the threads were imported into the new forums.
    As for the website, a few items have been removed and these were removed because very few hits ie; they offered little interest. There�s only a few new additions too as most of the changes have gone on behind the scenes. Here�s what's new or changed:

Finally, we have a new feature car, this time we're having a look at Mick McCardle's original SS Torana
Helpful forum member Sam 62 Holden has been added to the Readers Cars section
Tech Articles added: UC rear discs on LH/LX by enderwigginau
Tech Articles added: Tyre ID by Enderwigginau
Paint & Trim codes added and some images updated in LC, LH, LX and UC Info & Specs pages
New Canberra Torana Club added
Torana Clubs page updated with website & contact details
    I hope you all enjoy the new site, particularly the new forums.

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Daggy remember this thread?

Dagabond
lost & bewildered
Posts: 87
(10/1/01 2:36:54 pm)

  So who is 'n' where is everybody ?
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We've got 80 odd members now with a fair few regulars thought id start a thread to see the population.
seein as most peoples dont have any info in there profiles.

Name: Darren (edit: doh!)

Location:Bacchus Marsh
(ifn ya scared bout details, nearest capital will do. Ya big girl) 

p.s any lurkers bout ?
p.p.s any single women bout ????????????

edit: dont care if they lurk schmurk or um jer... Tim 

bump seein somebody untagged it 
BUMP
who keeps bumpin dis 
and a notha b4 it leaves the page

Edited by: Dagabond at: 1/6/02 12:59:41 am

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Stats from Ezboard

Founded: May 17, 2001
Daily Posts: 58 Total Posts: 19282
Daily Visits: 2390 Total Visits: 594519
600 Registered Members

[MRLXSS]

Yeah, I remember some of those above to! Its scarey how long i have been here for...

[orangeLJ]

i lurked for years when i could find the site! i came across it by accident about 4 or 5 years ago, and could never remember the name of the place, so i had to search google everytime i wanted to find it again (and it was never on top of the list!)

Then i got used to the name, and was comming regularly, then it dissappeared and i was dumfounded! then i found it again, and joined up that time around. I think i was surprised there were so many young people on here, mainly what made me join up

[MRLXSS]

i lurked for years when i could find the site! i came across it by accident about 4 or 5 years ago, and could never remember the name of the place, so i had to search google everytime i wanted to find it again (and it was never on top of the list!)

HAHA I use to do the same thing!

Now i think about it, i reckon i joined ezyboard in about 2001-2. My first post (or my one my first posts) would have been a wanted to buy thread. Looking for a Hatchback, I dont think i got any leads from it. Just a few people telling me i have good taste! LOL

I remember the introduce yourself threads and all that! I use to run a website called Hot Holdens (Back in the day, not the current one) and i had heaps of Torana, Commodore, and Burnout Pics on it! LOL. I Had a pic of my parents old VR commodore on the main page, cos i use to think that car was the ducks guts! I was about 13 when i set that site up! it was a yr 7 project... HAHA!

Anyway, Anyone remember that old site of mine? might have been hotholdens.tk. When i got the Torana in '03, i built a new site (another school project) called operationtorana.tk! LOL it was an indepth build history for my car... haha. That site was still up until a few months ago. But i Hadn't updated it for 3-4 years! Once i got my licence and the car was on the road, i had better things to do! LOL


ahhh memories

[Joshua]

the site will turn 7 on the 17th of may according to my sources...

could be some big updates round that time too...

i didn't find this site till 2004 so I'm relatively a newbie

[Collo]

the site will turn 7 on the 17th of may according to my sources...

could be some big updates round that time too...

i didn't find this site till 2004 so I'm relatively a newbie

I'm a bigger newbie but i don't intend on going anywhere...

[tinkers]

the site will turn 7 on the 17th of may according to my sources...

could be some big updates round that time too...�

i didn't find this site till 2004 so I'm relatively a newbie�

According to your sources?

I added it into one of the posts above.

[Collo]

Still an interesting thread bout evolution of the forum for people who weren't there and a trip down history lane for those that were...

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I was testing an old HDD last night and came across a lot more info that I can drag out but it will take time to do, most of it was from the ezboard site when we were transfering the threads over to the new site.
The introduction thread was 10 pages long

[Collo]

How big was a page back then...

[Joshua]

the site will turn 7 on the 17th of may according to my sources...

could be some big updates round that time too...�

i didn't find this site till 2004 so I'm relatively a newbie�

According to your sources?

I added it into one of the posts above.

You did..?
totally missed that post... haha

According to Tinkers then

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How do those stats compare to today tinks?

Total Unique Topics 26558
Total Replies to topics 258963
Total Members 1907

[tinkers]

I use to run a website called Hot Holdens (Back in the day, not the current one) and i had heaps of Torana, Commodore, and Burnout Pics on it! LOL. I Had a pic of my parents old VR commodore on the main page, cos i use to think that car was the ducks guts! I was about 13 when i set that site up! it was a yr 7 project... HAHA!

Anyway, Anyone remember that old site of mine? might have been hotholdens.tk. When i got the Torana in '03, i built a new site (another school project) called operationtorana.tk! LOL it was an indepth build history for my car... haha. That site was still up until a few months ago. But i Hadn't updated it for 3-4 years! Once i got my licence and the car was on the road, i had better things to do! LOL


ahhh memories

Screenshot minus the pics

This page?

[MRLXSS]

^^ It Brings a tear to my eye... ^^

[enderwigginau]

i've added tinkerz (qld torrie club) and enderwiggenau (sydney torrie club) along myself (vic torie club) as forum moderators

Do you remember that Dags didn't want to be a Mod originally......til the train hit him and he was railroaded!

Grant..

[red6]

Having a bit of a chat in shoutbox and thought some people might enjoy a trip down memory lane (or a history lesson)!

[N/A-PWR]

Great to know Our History, Thank-you red6. Dave I