Site Suggestions

[timot_one]

Here's what I have done.  They guys that I know from the other forum, I have changed your permissions so you can create a new thread in the for sale forum.  Anyone that's a registered member can post in an existing thread though.

[CrackerTeg]

Cool man. Works for me.

[b_beau_09]

i know this is all still semi-young, but i'm gonna start promoting in my area for elitecm.net for sure..  and since i was going to get a g7a sticker before it went to hell, i may start designing one for elitecm.. i think if we all started promoting to our seperate CM's we'll easily get some good members over here.  so with that being said, i think advertising for elitecm.net is the best thing we can do.. once old g7a members see that the format is generally the same, they will come in flocks. haha.

and tim, i think i'm speaking for everyone in saying that if you need any help here with keeping the site up and running, or maintenance, just speak up.  we're here for the community.

[Anonymous]

maybe we can contact 'glily' to distribute decals for this forum? since hes already distributing them for G7A.

[timot_one]

I appreciate the offer man.  I definitely want to get some decals made soon, but I want a design first.  I posted a thread for decal design submissions.  I will contact glily about getting decals made for us.  If that doesn't pan out, I'll go to the guy I went to last time.

EliteCM Decal Design

[CrackerTeg]

I'm liking what brian said about promoting in our respective areas. Good thing I never got a g7a sticker.

[Mike]

I don't think we need to do as much promotion as you guys are thinking. I'm pretty sure that the consensus here is that we are after a forum with quality content not a high member count. I'd rather have 50 good members than 100000 dopes any day.

[b_beau_09]

i fully agree with you, mike, as far as quality over quantity.  i was just saying we should promote within our respective squads.  get the people we know over here so that we can maintain our squad information in one place instead of two or three different forums. the less confusion the better.

[Mike]

I here you.

[stirfriedferret]

Ooh ooh, I have a suggestion!  I think that on the entrance page, we should put a short summary of the site so that when you see the site listed on a search engine such as google, it will have the site description. As of right now it reads like this on google;
Results for: elitecm

EliteCM.net
EliteCM.net. Enter Here. contact: admin@elitecm.net.
elitecm.net/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

That's all it says.  Also for the same page, I think that for a cool thing to do (although it may require more work for the admins), we should elect a new accord picture as a splash screen monthly or bi-monthly.  Whenever you guys feel is better.   Just a few ideas I've had.  And yes, tim thanks for mentioning me on your first post. *headslap*

[timot_one]

I agree Brian.  I know we need to refine the site some more.  Between Mark and I, we will be doing some of this stuff.  As of now, we are both extremely busy with personal stuff.  As time goes on, we will be knocking out the list of things that need to be done to make ecm a better place.  I think you have some pretty good suggestions though.

[NVA-AV6]

So it seems there might be a small exodus from the new G7A coming over here?

My suggestion, do not make this board like the new G7A ever, it is the most difficult forum to work with I have seen.

[CrackerTeg]

I don't think that'll ever happen man. This board is going to stay the way it is and as far as the exodus goes, the movement is happening and they're coming in droves!

[timot_one]

So it seems there might be a small exodus from the new G7A coming over here?

My suggestion, do not make this board like the new G7A ever, it is the most difficult forum to work with I have seen.

True man.  There are a lot of people coming over from g7a because of the new format.  You guys have the right to beat my ass if I pull the same shit Art did.  We are going to keep this format.

[mnkyman]

I know this is a fairly new site, but once we get everything looking spic and span (ie: header, entrance page), we should update the meta tags and search engine submission.

Also, Tim...you may want to set your nameservers to private. At the moment, anyone can get your name, addy, phone, email via the whois.net (its public information if you don't set it to private). Also, looking at your info on whois, looks like this site is hosted by 1and1, i use them as well and i know they provide the "private" setting for free. Just go to your domains and you can set as private.

I'll offer any help that I can, but for the time being I'm super busy with school and also trying to set-up my cycling team's webpage. Shoot me a pm or email if you have any questions though.