Website Membership

[Paul Sheridan]

In response to the email about paying a membership fee to upgrade to the next stage web site, I feel this would be a good move.

What would be even better in my view, would be to possibly make this the main DOC website. I know I opened a can of worms with my post (Why do we have three web sites?)

We all have one main thing in common...our love of Duttons, being a friendly bunch of like minded people, we should all come together and fully represent our interest, this can be better managed if we are united.

Kind regards

 

Paul.

  

[Adrian Southgate]

No worries Tim. Thanks for starting the site in the first place.

If you do need a hand with owt, give us Bolton lads a shout. Just wait for the weather to get into double figures again... :-)

[GODSPEED]

Thought I'd pop over and have a sniff about and discovered this thread, very interesting :)

 

I'll be honest and say that I think you will be shooting yourself in the foot by creating anything official for the DOC via NING. I hadn't realised they had introduced pricing plans. I relayed my concerns when duttonowners first appeared that there was no way to backup the site yourself - This is the main reason I moved away from free hosting on the forums (from InvisionFree) Once you are locked in (tempted in by no charges) they have you by the short and curlies. Do they now let you download your community data for backup or export if required? That is the key factor, control over your own data.

 

You see the thing is a forum may seem boring but you can do just about anything you want with the data to move it about from board to board or host to host. Infact it doesn't have to be just a boring forum at all - There is a whole community who have created as open source all the features that people find useful - blogs,photo albums,calenders,galleries,garages, shout boxes, chatrooms,skype integration,rss feeds. The features you can add to forums are numerous.

 

When you pay out of your own pocket for hosting there is a fine line between how much bandwidth/disc drive space your site uses which obviously impacts on the features provide.

 

The duttonforums is coming up to a revamp stage anyway so we will see what can be accommodated. All three sites compliment each other in my view and these two keep the vital ingredient of independence like other online sites for various car marques.

 

Thanks to the posters for the feedback on the DF's as well.

 

All the best

 

G