Doverforum's new home
- 1 October 2012 02:56193642Welcome to the new home for Doverforum!
More information will follow shortly from Paul and myself, but just two quick notes to get us started...
Your user accounts have all been transferred across, so there's no need to re-register. If you have any problems logging in, you can reset your password from the login page, or email me (chris.tutthill@whytestudio.co.uk) for assistance.
You might notice some pictures missing from your old forum posts and on other parts of the site. This is only temporary - it takes a little longer to transfer photos, but they should all be back by the end of the day.
If you have any other problems or questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch, or post a message in this topic!
Chris - 1 October 2012 03:57193644It all looks good at 0400hrs this morning,and I look forward to reading and looking more as the day moves on.Nice to see make overs from time to time.I have had a look round and it is good infact very good and it was done in a few hrs.
- 1 October 2012 07:41193648Well that was a suprise when I logged on this morning, took my brain a while to figure out what was going on
Looks good from what I have seen so far, just going for a browse around now.
Well done guys! - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,904
1 October 2012 07:44193649I will reserve judgement until I have got used to the change as everything is so very different.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1 October 2012 07:48193650Goodness it has changed. Certainly looks bright and fresh, and may take us a while to find our feet, but I am sure it's going to be good. Well done Chris - look forward to seeing how it develops.
- 1 October 2012 07:55193652
Hello and Welcome to the new home for Doverforum. As you can see we have merged with Dover.Uk.Com to create an exciting new website..a website totally local, dedicated to Dover and surrounding areas. This is very exciting and once again a huge thanks to Chris Tutthill.
Why the change?
The reason for the change is that as of today I am no longer editor but am stepping down after a very long run. I am in my 65th year now and the old bones cant take the daily slog anymore..doing it everyday from 6am was getting too much. Some medical problems this year too and the advice was for me to stop. This was in june this year or a bit earlier.
The challenge then was to find a way to keep it all going so that all the regular forum contributors and large readership would not be let down, but would still have a natural home.
As many will know Chris Tutthill has worked with me behind the scenes for many years, my technical man at the coalface of the action, and he did a great job for us on Doverforum through thick and thin, kept us going through spammers and hackers and everything else.
As Chris was doing something similar to Doverforum with Dover.Uk.Com ..the natural path to evolution was a merger between the two. Chris has media in his bones, being the son of legendary local newspaperman Graham Tutthill. He is also a generation at least ( maybe more !! ) behind yours truly and knows about facebooks and twitters and so on..all these media developments seem to have passed me by, so you can see the time had come for something new.
But a few thankyous before I hang up my boots..
Thanks once again to Chris for all his help over the years and keeping us on air. I'm not terribly technical so without him we would have been gone long ago.
Thanks to to Colette Boland, we did all the coverage together since day one..all the events with pictures and so on..Remembrance Sunday, Mayor Making, Carnivals, Boxing Day dips, official engagements of all sorts...we did years of it, all as just volunteers of course.
Thanks to Howard McSweeney who has done a great job for us in recent times as Forum Editor and he will continue in that role, bringing us news and stories from around the town..he was a great help to me for sure.
Thanks to Barry Wadsworth-Smith who did the advertising for many years and kept us funded. Always important.
Jan Tranter who helped greatly behind the scenes in recent times with some vital contact information and so on.
Thanks hugely to all the forumites who contributed terrific stuff over the years..even recently we saw it on the Channel Dash thread if i can just pick one example out.
I will mention two forum stalwarts of the process who have been here since year dot...
Barry Williams who did/does a great blog and has always advertised (Regency IFA) which was vital when times were tough.
Keith Sansum who helped us financially when we were down and out, we got off the floor and are stilll here today..but now as of today in another guise.
Thanks again to everybody who supported the effort made.
It is now a new exciting website, I think it is great, so please all keep going on here, just like before.
PS: Ooops I better take down that avatar with The Boss on it now..its had a long run.email: dover7@msn.com - 1 October 2012 07:55193653The only thing is I am having to log in each time.But the rest is well done.
- 1 October 2012 07:57193654Despite my initial shock it didn't take too long to get the hang of the Forums and there seems to be an awful lot more to explore too! I suspect this is the result of a lot of hard work so 'well done' to those involved.
- 1 October 2012 08:01193655Good morning Chris and Paul .................all looking good to me
- 1 October 2012 08:04193656Got a bit of a shock this morning when I went on the forum, did wonder for a while if it had been nobbled by something nasty so got in touch with another member before I logged in as I didn't want to get a lurgie on the old computer, but all is fine. the new format is looking very good so far, Sorry to hear you are slowing down a bit Paul you are a leg end in your own lifetime, hope all goes well for the future. keep up the good work.A dog is just not for christmas save some for boxing day
- 1 October 2012 08:07193657I like the new forum - yes it will take a while to get used to but initial, impressions are good.
PaulB - thanks for all that you have done over the years first of all establishing and then keeping this great local resource going. It has not always been easy but you have done a great job. I hope that you will keep on posting!!! - 1 October 2012 08:12193659[B]At last the word 'coalition' has been brought in from the cold.[/B]
Now I can begin to rest my apostrophe key.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 1 October 2012 08:15193661Paul B
I have just seen your posting which must have overlapped with mine. I would like to express my thanks for all your work over the years to keep the Forum going. I hope you will contribute in some form as I will miss your humorous musings on Dover life. However, if you must take it easy, I know a great little place where you could go that's not too far.......................
All the best.
Mark - Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
1 October 2012 08:38193668paulb;
thank you for providing was has been a great site for a great number of years, there has been many contributors with wide ranging views and we have been able to keep the forum together and great enjoyment for many, but also a very informative site.
I do hope these latest moves allow Dover forum chat site to continue, as i have found the information, up to date, and helpful and as i say enjoyed by many.
Paulb you deserve to sit back and relax now the pressure is off,(and don't forget that beer you keep promising me) ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 1 October 2012 08:40193670all seems a bit surreal but paul will still be posting pics of dawns, sunsets and shipping from his vantage point overlooking the channel.
great work over the past decade paul and a big well done to chris for managing the changeover so smoothly, i was expecting a few problems this morning. - 1 October 2012 08:45193673Haha...Howard, there are a few problems, I'm just trying to fix them before anyone notices!
- 1 October 2012 08:59193675Well, that's a nice fresh look to everything. Well done.
- 1 October 2012 09:41193676If I may say. The one change I had hoped for was that it could be made possible that the 'back to' option followed one down the page.
[Chris, well done on the +40 front. :)]Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 1 October 2012 10:00193679I see we can delete posts now as well. I don't think we could do that before could we.
- 1 October 2012 10:13193680It is very bright - my eyes are still adjusting