Barebones auto site running

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Major Attitude, Jul 14, 2009.

  1. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Decided to start up an auto news website for fun. Of course, your now wondering why bother? Glad you asked. I noticed few to no websites cover the same stories and many seem interested in either the really big, or really small stories. I thought I would try and cover all the news, plus do it with a community based theme, so fellow car lovers can discuss the latest articles. I have another name in mind but for now, it is The Car Geeks and can be found at http://www.thecargeeks.com/index.php It is a basic Pligg install with what I feel are very unique categories of news including:

    Automotive - News
    Motorcycle - News
    Nascar - News
    F1 - News
    Other - Whatever ;)
    Events - Car shows, etc.
    Ebay - Interesting Ebay auctions
    Shopping - Deals on wheels and stuff
    Weird - Like Way Off Base for cars
    YouTube - Anything related on YouTube

    These categories should cover all the basic news everyone needs as well as provide some entertainment. I really love this idea and welcome you all to visit. If your a car geek, then register and post some news! I plan to have a new theme up next week and hope to continue to build this community. Having fun with it and Halo a few members here have already been helping. Ideas, comments and suggestions welcome.
     
  2. TeeCee

    TeeCee MajorGeek

    That is a novel idea! I think it will take off real nice... Great idea you have there! I hope you still have time for this place :-D
     
  3. AbbySue

    AbbySue MajorGeeks Administrator

    All I gotta say is...I AM SO there!:-D WooHoo! vrooom...vrooom:cool
     
  4. Mankind

    Mankind Just call me MK - RIP 2014

    Me three AbbySue!;) Any NHRA drag racing fans can find articles under "other".Why they didn`t include both NHRA and IHRA seems kind of weird.:confused
     
    Last edited: Jul 17, 2009
  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Just need to ask MA and he maybe able to add those titles


    @Abby.... hehehe thought you might ;)
     
  6. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

  7. Mankind

    Mankind Just call me MK - RIP 2014

    Noted this am and gracias,MA.:)
     
  8. BoredOutOfMyMind

    BoredOutOfMyMind Picabo, ICU

  9. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Thanks again. Will be changing backends again, the dicks at Pligg (well, ChuckRoast @ Pligg) decided to answer a question I had. I felt he was short, rude and condescending and did not answer my simple question. From there he just got stupider and stupider all why refusing to answer my question. Now I know why the Pligg CMS has so few users and even fewer forum users. Hence, we are changing databases to Contentteller soon since it has better support and code.

    Let this be a warning to you, if you use Pligg, I hope it runs perfectly for you, don't make any noise on their website, they just talk down to you, then ban you. If you did not buy any addons, you get what you pay for with Pligg. Also, 2 of 4 addon modules I purchased (to show my support) also did not work. One was s imply a spam text file for 10 bucks that he blamed Pligg code on. Silly, it's always someone elses fault at Pligg.

    Looking for a CMS? Find a different CMS like Contentteller or Joomla, for example.
     
  10. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    No doubt it will all come good in the end.
    I bet when you set up MGs it did not sail straight first time out
     
  11. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    We had Philipp, it always ran well :)
     

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