Here's a little advance warning of our move to the new site - and new forum - within the next 48 hours.
It is our intention to get the new site live today, March 1, 2007.
However, even if we do, it may take 24-72 hours before some users see the 'new site' at the same url (web address ie www.lro.com) - it takes a little time for changes to spread around the internet.
During this period some users (mostly those within companies with their own internal cache etc) may see error pages on occasion. If this happens to you, please be patient and try again later.
We've listened hard to what you, the community of users of LRO.com have told us about what you want from your site and forum.
The consensus was, in respect of the forum, that it was better to proceed on a solid footing for the future than to focus on retaining users' past history or records of previous postings.
I appreciate that won't be everyone's view - but it was the majority view from those who expressed an opinion.
IF THERE IS ANYTHING ON THE TEMPORARY FORUM YOU WISH TO SAVE, PLEASE MAKE COPIES NOW.
The consensus was also to use a phpbb bulletin board. This is the standard and up-to-date kind found throughout the web and a style I hope you will be familiar with and feel immediately at home with.
It also means that, going forward, we will much more easily be able to upgrade and evolve the forum, while retaining your registrations, posts and histories. Our previous elderly and bespoke forums made this technically complex and prohibitively expensive.
The LRO team has been encouraged by how rapidly you have made the temporary forum feel like a vibrant, active community. And I sincerely hope you'll feel comfortable about doing the same thing again on the new forum.
The new site has plenty more to offer - you'll discover that when you get there.
It has been created extremely rapidly but is on a solid platform which we intend to use to evolve going forward.
It won't be perfect from day one. It will be in a state of permanent development - and we want you to partner with us in shaping what it eventually becomes - keep telling us what's wrong and what you want next.
LRO.com will be as useful as you make it, as successful as you intend it to be.
Once again, many thanks for your patience.
Best regards
David Cushman
Online Editor
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
New site: Progress report
Updated: Feb 23, 8.40am.
It seems there are still a series of minor bugs which have to be attended to on the new site. Launching just before the weekend is always risky (because of the lack of back-up you have if things go pear-shaped) so I'm going to have to say Friday's launch must be postponed.
The good news is we aren't far off, we've started adding editorial content and for the most part the site is working very well. I'm sure our tech bods will crack the minor bugs rapidly and we'll progress to a solid launch in the early part of next week. In the meantime, we'll bring you updates on this blog and the message boards remain open.
Previous report:
Hello all. Feb 23 is looming large so it's time I gave you a progress report.
The team working on the new LRO are hard at it (some will be working through the night tonight) with the intention of providing a site we can start adding content to by Wednesday morning.
At this stage it's still unclear as to whether or not the new forum will be ready at the same time as the rest of the site.
But that doesn't mean we'll go live with no forum. Instead, if that is our only option, we'll launch the new site with links to the current temporary Message Board you find linked from this blogsite.
Design has gone very well and I think you'll like the new look.
More updates as we progress. If you have comments, please do add them below.
Many thanks. David Cushman, online editor.
It seems there are still a series of minor bugs which have to be attended to on the new site. Launching just before the weekend is always risky (because of the lack of back-up you have if things go pear-shaped) so I'm going to have to say Friday's launch must be postponed.
The good news is we aren't far off, we've started adding editorial content and for the most part the site is working very well. I'm sure our tech bods will crack the minor bugs rapidly and we'll progress to a solid launch in the early part of next week. In the meantime, we'll bring you updates on this blog and the message boards remain open.
Previous report:
Hello all. Feb 23 is looming large so it's time I gave you a progress report.
The team working on the new LRO are hard at it (some will be working through the night tonight) with the intention of providing a site we can start adding content to by Wednesday morning.
At this stage it's still unclear as to whether or not the new forum will be ready at the same time as the rest of the site.
But that doesn't mean we'll go live with no forum. Instead, if that is our only option, we'll launch the new site with links to the current temporary Message Board you find linked from this blogsite.
Design has gone very well and I think you'll like the new look.
More updates as we progress. If you have comments, please do add them below.
Many thanks. David Cushman, online editor.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Old site closes down
The old Land Rover Owner website (http://www.lro.com/) is no more - due to circumstances beyond our control.
We apologise whole-heartedly to all those people inconvenienced by this in any way; forum users who can no longer access their posts, blog users who were unable to save their content before the site was closed, anyone listing their items for sale in our classified section and of course our advertisers.
We don't under-estimate how annoying this is or the difficulties it may cause you. If we had a viable option, rest assured, we would take it.
The good news is that we plan build a replacement - and have a bag full of lessons learned to make sure it serves the LRO community better than ever. This will be ready to go in a very short period of time - by which we mean less than 20 days from today.
In the meantime we have set up temporary message boards (see links, left) as a short-term home for the LRO community.
We will use this blog to keep you up to date with progress on the new site, to hear your comments and suggestions about it, and to keep you up to date with all Land Rover news. So please keep checking back. Sign up to a feed from this site and you're guaranteed to hear the latest the moment we publish it.
We apologise whole-heartedly to all those people inconvenienced by this in any way; forum users who can no longer access their posts, blog users who were unable to save their content before the site was closed, anyone listing their items for sale in our classified section and of course our advertisers.
We don't under-estimate how annoying this is or the difficulties it may cause you. If we had a viable option, rest assured, we would take it.
The good news is that we plan build a replacement - and have a bag full of lessons learned to make sure it serves the LRO community better than ever. This will be ready to go in a very short period of time - by which we mean less than 20 days from today.
In the meantime we have set up temporary message boards (see links, left) as a short-term home for the LRO community.
We will use this blog to keep you up to date with progress on the new site, to hear your comments and suggestions about it, and to keep you up to date with all Land Rover news. So please keep checking back. Sign up to a feed from this site and you're guaranteed to hear the latest the moment we publish it.
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