Well, you are all most very welcome. I had been putting this off for about a year knowing that I "had" to do a full conversion before the older system was going to pass by us all. The other software enterprise system was getting very close to not supporting what we had. I had to do something.
I went into a test phase that lasted about a month or more. The Board that you are on now was built several times and worked out database problems before I felt comfortable with releasing it to the public. All it takes is one false move with some code and bam, nothing.
As time goes by, there will be some very minor changes made such as the "Title Bar" at top along with different model ships to showcase at top of banner. So, watch...your ship could be featured at the top at header as well.
Right now, i am working on a "Redirect" that when people browse to the old, they will be automatically sent to the new (this one). I am not a software engineer and I am certainly not a database manager and have done a ton of reading and going to other forms of help to get this done. Web page and Web site design has become more complicated than when I started writing HTML code by hand over 15 years ago. Now, it is almost unrecognizable as the things they do now.
Believe me, I am not bragging on myself at all. If I am doing anything, it is taking a bunch of stomach pills and getting through the nervousness to make sure I don't screw up royally !!!
sigh - so lets just enjoy what we have now - thank goodness !
Donnie
oh--ps--
The old forum is still there for a little while if you need to compare your old post to your new post to make sure you are up to date. If you see that the new forum does not have your latest photos or comments, just do back to the old forum, navigate to the last few or several post and copy "one post at a time", then I would even suggest opening NOTEPAD and pasting that post in there to make sure all the comments are there. Then navigate to the new forum, CREATE a NEW reply and paste that info. Since you have your photos on your local computer, you can just attach the file to the new forum. Just do ONE post at at time until you have it like you want it. I could have had the new forum EXACT without doing this, but I would have had to shut down the old forum for a few days, and I really did not want to do that. All browsers these days allow for multiple "TABS" to be open so you can quickly go from one site to the other. If you have ANY doubts, fears, (and I can relate to that 100%), I will help you get it right.
