David
08-30-2012, 03:04 PM
There are a few of you that have been around since the birth of this site... For the rest I thought I'd show you what this has evolved from and what you've helped to build...
It started with the creation of the VintageJetBoats.com logo... I had an idea and my niece's boyfriend at the time that is a graphic designer drew it up based on images I sent him...
6565656665676568
Here's the first logo we used for a little bit... It just wasn't right though...
6569
Then I asked him to modify it slightly for me, this is a "Lake Rod" site, he needed to be wearing a ball cap and backwards too!!!
6570
On April 6, 2010 this site started out as a fancy little forum built with free (SMF) forum software.
I'll add more screenshots as I find them. This site has always been far from stock just as our VJB's are on the lake!!!
I always had the vision of a picture in the background to make VJB unique as compared to other forums. We didn't start that way though.
The buttons across the top were unique as well. If you've ever used a Mac they were just like those buttons on the bottom of the home screen. Pretty cool!!!
6564
As time went on and the forum grew and the fancy little icons up top were slowing the site down too much, so we went with a new theme that was a little simpler and more transparent to see the background image better... At this point we started using "Member's" pics as the featured "Background Image of the Month (http://www.vintagejetboats.com/content.php?123-background-of-the-month)", I thought it was a cool and unique thing for us to do??? You must have too because people are sending and posting pics for suggested Background pics all the time.
We also went from just landing in the forum to having a "Portal", a place where we could put up news and article's and stuff and things... :biggrin:
These images are from the test site that I had going before launching the new theme.
6571
As you can see the forum was pretty transparent back then.
6572
I had some fun with the test site, just Steve and Jason had access to see this and give advice on the lay out and stuff. Some of you may get it, some may not.
We ran this free (SMF) forum software until January 31, 2012. Kreg (H2OMOFO) has the last post over there and you can still browse that forum (Archived site (http://archive.vintagejetboats.com/index.php?topic=1430.msg18261#msg18261)). Although you can't post or nuttin' I've kept it available for reference. Sometimes we come across a thread here still that's missing pics and that allows us to go back and find the images to repair the threads here.
We had a fund raiser to raise the $$$ to buy the software (VBulletin) to make this place faster for one and also this software is the state of the art for forums.
You all contributed around $400 to make it possible to buy the forum software plus the Garage software...
You all know who you are that bought shirts, hats, decals and a few of you just threw a few extra bucks in as well to get us there... Thanks again!!!
It started with the creation of the VintageJetBoats.com logo... I had an idea and my niece's boyfriend at the time that is a graphic designer drew it up based on images I sent him...
6565656665676568
Here's the first logo we used for a little bit... It just wasn't right though...
6569
Then I asked him to modify it slightly for me, this is a "Lake Rod" site, he needed to be wearing a ball cap and backwards too!!!
6570
On April 6, 2010 this site started out as a fancy little forum built with free (SMF) forum software.
I'll add more screenshots as I find them. This site has always been far from stock just as our VJB's are on the lake!!!
I always had the vision of a picture in the background to make VJB unique as compared to other forums. We didn't start that way though.
The buttons across the top were unique as well. If you've ever used a Mac they were just like those buttons on the bottom of the home screen. Pretty cool!!!
6564
As time went on and the forum grew and the fancy little icons up top were slowing the site down too much, so we went with a new theme that was a little simpler and more transparent to see the background image better... At this point we started using "Member's" pics as the featured "Background Image of the Month (http://www.vintagejetboats.com/content.php?123-background-of-the-month)", I thought it was a cool and unique thing for us to do??? You must have too because people are sending and posting pics for suggested Background pics all the time.
We also went from just landing in the forum to having a "Portal", a place where we could put up news and article's and stuff and things... :biggrin:
These images are from the test site that I had going before launching the new theme.
6571
As you can see the forum was pretty transparent back then.
6572
I had some fun with the test site, just Steve and Jason had access to see this and give advice on the lay out and stuff. Some of you may get it, some may not.
We ran this free (SMF) forum software until January 31, 2012. Kreg (H2OMOFO) has the last post over there and you can still browse that forum (Archived site (http://archive.vintagejetboats.com/index.php?topic=1430.msg18261#msg18261)). Although you can't post or nuttin' I've kept it available for reference. Sometimes we come across a thread here still that's missing pics and that allows us to go back and find the images to repair the threads here.
We had a fund raiser to raise the $$$ to buy the software (VBulletin) to make this place faster for one and also this software is the state of the art for forums.
You all contributed around $400 to make it possible to buy the forum software plus the Garage software...
You all know who you are that bought shirts, hats, decals and a few of you just threw a few extra bucks in as well to get us there... Thanks again!!!