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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What Cliff said.. Only need to address one item.
"Is it possible to keep this as the "Main" OFC Page and then "Link" to the other for those that want to take advantage??"
THAT IS THE PLAN!!! It's been posted several times, but to many the drama of assumption is more fun.
I do need a clarification tho.. when you said "MAIN OFC Page" I assume you meant the main forums?? The "main" page has little on it but the entrance and a menu.
Thanks Cliff for the well thought out post. I agree with ALL of it. MySpace and Facebook remind me of the early days of the internet when we all knew we had to have a page, no one knew why.
The future, at least according to some experts is the ning-style network. Like Facebook, or MySpace but allowing indivuduals and groups to create their own space, for their own purpose.
Bottom line...
don't like it = don't use it
do like it = do use it
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Miles,
It would be a good idea if you shut down the forums on the new site. That way all people would know to post discussions here. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I think that already happened...
But you can still link to it for photos and stuff... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Miles, we still need links to "HOP" back to the social site.
I'd love to see them set up to go directly to "VIDEOS", "PICTURES", "GROUPS", etc. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I'm not sure if this is possible (and haven't really thought it through) but is there a way the social site could include an "Ovations I own/have owned" that was searchable.
This way you could quickly identify people who have a particular model you are interested in. Obviously it would only include those who filled in the details. The photos section requires a lot of hacking through to find out what guitars someone has.
What I'm thinking of would involve Miles creating a list of all model numbers (maybe along with a picture of each) and each member could tick a box 1) I have it  2) I had it  or 3) I want it 
Somehow make it searchable so people who were desperate to buy could make tempting offers to people who weren't planning on selling but could be tempted. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Nice idea Richard. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | And I'd like all my posts to appear in my colour of choice. It should be pretty easy for Miles to do as I'm a guy and there are only four colours. Red, Yellow, and Blue. Then I would be happy.
Thank you.
Come visit me in The Ironics, a splinter group that broke off from The Sarcastics at the new sight. We never mean what we say except when we do/don't. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | There's a freeform area on your profile page where you can list your guitars. Unfortunately it's not searchable. at least not currently. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Come visit me in The Ironics, a splinter group that broke off from The Sarcastics at the new sight. We never mean what we say except when we do/don't. Just make sure you pay your licensing fees! or were gonna send Mr. Big over the border to visit ya! |
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Location: NJ | Isn't it Ironic . . . . |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
I'm not sure if this is possible (and haven't really thought it through) but is there a way the social site could include an "Ovations I own/have owned" that was searchable.
Just create a profile HERE and create albums and upload pictures. Use the TAG feature to describe the model and it should be searchable. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I just tested the search... WOW!!!! That is just too cool. |
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| Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
I just tested the search... WOW!!!! That is just too cool. The key is making sure you use the right (and enough) tags for your pictures, otherwise the search just returns hits on the picture title.
If you're uploading pictures, I suggest you batch upload all like pictures together (example, all pics of a 1537) and use the "apply to all" checkbox of the batch uploader to give all of those pics the same tags.
Ive tagged all the guitar pics I uploaded. If you go to the Photos section of the Social site and search for 1619, for example, all my 1619 pictures will show up. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I transferd most of my pics from the old site this A.M. I plan on tagging the so they make sense. And that will take some time. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | $0.02 (mine)
... not sure about having the two sites active... too much to bother with and will end up ignoring one of them. Should be one or the other... not both..... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Just got a message: Uh-oh. The site has encountered a serious problem... Looks like nobody's perfect. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yeah, this is not good. That is cuz I just transfered a bunch of photos from here to there.
Well, not too many.
But I did copy all my photos from this gallery, in case I had inadvertently lost them from my computer...
(oh yeah, I just realized that some of them were from my Other computer, so that was a good thing)
I especially wanted to save this photo...
Never can tell when I might need these folks for my next Wedding! :p |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I'm a guy and there are only four colours. Red, Yellow, and Blue. :confused: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Those Canadians can't count, Brad. I'll have to tell you about those 10 packs of Molson I bought when I was in Alberta. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I deleted all my photos from the old site. Most were old guitars that have long since been gone anyway. Dave |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I saved all mine, but Dave, You shoulda sent all that Historical stuff to Photobucket...
They woulda kept 'em there for Posterity. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
... not sure about having the two sites active... too much to bother with and will end up ignoring one of them. Should be one or the other... not both..... Tim, there is really only one 'site', this one. The 'forum' part of the other site has been disabled.
Consider the 'other site' as a storage facility and 'specialism' area.
I've gotta say, this system is good coz I can still check in at work and keep up with the forum goings on. Just have to do the fancy stuff from home. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Back from holiday....and found a lot of news on the OFC !!
Surfed the "ning" a bit to get confidence with it.
Nice job.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I saved all mine, but Dave, You shoulda sent all that Historical stuff to Photobucket...
They woulda kept 'em there for Posterity. Everything except Calvin Pissing on Taylor is already on www.ovationgallery.com
If I can figure out the new site maybe I post some new stuff over there. |
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Location: south east Michigan | The hardest thing about putting pics up on the other site is getting used to how easy it is. |
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