Editing Your Ride Page Just Got Better!

How the hell do I embed youtube vids now?

THIS IS A CRAPPY NEW SETUP!! I JUST FINISHED AN AMAZING FIBERGLASS BOX AND CANT EVEN SHOW IT OFF CUZ DOUBLE CLICKING TO ADD PICS WONT WORK AND I DONT KNOW HTML!! GRRRR…

I’ve notice that it doesn’t work with a different browser other than Internet Explorer. How about making it compatible with other browsers.

Ok… so i just bounched from my home computer (HP something erother from late 2003, Mozilla) to my computer at work (HP something erother from like early 2008, Internet Explorer) both windows and now i am having trouble messing around with my page… hmm… so really i am now un-decided if i like it or not…

and for the individual that called me out… im sorry if i came off as a douche bag… i really dont know much about computers and working with pages… and what works and doesnt work on other “systems”, and it worked alright on my home computer but now… this $h!t sucks for when im at work and i want to mess around with cardomain

Bad Upgrade! The older version was far more user friendly and straight forward. The absence of the alignment feature now is ridiculous. The only way to set up your page as you want it now is by editing it via the html option, which most users like myself are not very familiar with if at all. Fortunately, I noticed the coding error and fixed my page only after wasting much time reading through the html coding.

Do you guys work for Microsoft?

J-Mac, don’t be a douche bag, notice the bar that you have to change your page with, some of us don’t have that option so we can’t update our pages because someone got an idea and didn’t think it through before pushing it out to the rest of us. Typical crappy coders.

well… i was a total hater about this new set-up but after a while i was getting use to it (and i hate working with web pages and computers in general)… i had to redo a few pages but the text i had before remained and all i had to do was double click the photo to get it back on the page… my page looks like i never changed a thing… besides more pictures i put it… so for all you haters… take a minute and work with it… you might end up liking it

I really don’t think its better, its actually a little more hard to get used to this, i hope you guys can take a closer look and let us something a little more easyer to use.

DUDE , I CAN’T EMBED A VIDEO FROM YOU TUBE
I THINK THE OLD SYSTEM WAS BETTER JOST NEEDED A LITHE MORE CONTROL

Ryan Porter should be fired immediately for being an incompetent fool. Thereafter, go back to old edit page.

PLEASE ADD A SPELL CHECK OPTION…PLEASSE!!!!!

PLEASE ADD A SPELL CHECK OPTION…PLEASSE!!!!!

I’m with these guys – it’s not user friendly at all. I juts tried to change one word in my very, very basic page and now its completely scrambled and I can’t get it back! I agree that the old system was limited, but it was easy and got the point across. If the new system stays, please, PLEASE make the editor page and the public page the same size so that what you see is what you get when you click “save and view page”.

This isnt user friendly. The last one was so simple to use, everything was organized, and the fonts were all the same size. Sounds like a lot of people are having troubles and thats the last thing you want on a great website like this. Face it, we want it simple again. There was no problem with the old one, so why ruin a perfectly good setup?

Change it back, im getting pissed

CHANGE IT BACK! THIS IS A WASTE OF OUR TIME! NOBODY LIKES IT! MAKES MY PAGE LOOK LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT, AND LOOKS LIKE A 4 YEAR OLD TYPED IT ALL TOGETHER. NOTHING IS ORGANIZED! REMOVE IT ALL AND GO BACK TO THE OLDER STYLE!

I DONT FUCKING LIKE IT, PUT IT BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!, IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT AN OPTION TO USE, MAYBE HAVE THE PEOPLE THAT WASNT TO USE IT DL IT TO THERE PAGE OR SOMETHING!!!!

Hi Guys,

Please change back to the old system.

Do put it plainly, it doesn’t work.

The last system was very user friendly and fair.

As Abe Lincoln once said: If it ain’t broke, dont fix it.

I speant 4 hours tonight trying to adjust the Page for My Rt. now center I would thingk would senter not stretching it all over then i tried to Justify and still it was screwed so then I tried to align left so that i could make it look right gods itlooks like a 2 year old put this page together cause I cant get the text to line up right I am Not an HTML coding guru Hell what the heck is Div =”Center” align = scratches head and mutters. and STILL I cant find the Editor to put a song on the page and SOMONE tell me why it takes me 2 minutes to upload to this sight One pic at a time when i can upload everywhere else 10 in the same length of time you wanna help us make were e can upload multiple images at once. OH and DONT ADD a Page without Saving cause any changes pending will be wiped out and For heavens sake if I set a Font size and Face PLEASE make it stay i should not have to go back and FIX it everytime i start typing

This new update is such a piece of shit! Can’t even get my images where I want them, and anything I want to change ends up getting totally fucked up. Really pissed off b/c now my ride page looks completely messed up, great going Car Domain!

double clicking? that’s a pretty unintuitive thing to do in a web page. I tried right-clicking on a whim to no avail. The thumbnails above represent pictures. Nobody wants to plant thumbnails on their page, so it makes no sense at all to have the capability to drag thumbnails into the page in the first place. the act of dragging and dripping is universal, well except for in this new pic feature on CD.
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That would be a great thing to mention in the editing page, wouldn’t you think?
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Sincerest thanks for the tip, Ryan!
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But I still think these new features have problems.

GT wildfire. it works best if you place the | symobol in the edit box and then double click on the picture. Then the picture will automaticly appear where you last left the | typing symbol

Dragging photos in will only give you the 50×50 thumbnail image. Double clicking the image will give you a 250×250 wide image and then if you not what you are doing, you can change the image source to give you the real big image size!

Has Mr. Anonymous brought in pictures, or is jumping to conclusions? Am I missing something here? PLEASE, if I’m not bring in pics right by dragging and dropping… TELL ME.

I didn’t like it at first but messed around a bit and got he hang of it nice job C.D

I didn’t like it at frist but messed around a bit and got he hang of it nice job C.D

I love the new setup. All uou need to add now is a function that lets us reorder the page number. For example, if we wanted page 3 to become page 1 we could just move the order around.

Well, I just tried using IE to edit the page. ROFL! It’s even WORSE. Pictures collide.
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Back when I did I.T., I’d have had a new ###hole torn into me for taking something like this live, and I wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

These are my conclusions, using FireFox. I don’t use Microsquish’s browser.

No… color text or not, I’d say that editing my page has gotten HARDER. I am far from thrilled anymore. This, well sucks. Before I’d upload a picture and with the knowledge of the very basic commands get it displayed with no problem and total predictability in the final arrangement.
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This editing interface REMOVES the impression of how the saved page will look. I noticed early on that hitting delete parked images NEXT TO each other in the editing screen. I thought it would be great to have pictures next to each other finally. THIS EDITOR DIDN’T DELIVER. The pictures remained in more or less the same arrangement as before.
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The text and fonts are great, BUT good luck SEEING what the font you choose will look in real time. I’d call that a huge minus.
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Then there’s that whole drag-the-pic and stretch-it-up thing. It simply DON’T WORK. I discovered why when I went in to edit the HTML source. It dragged the THUMBNAIL and referenced it! I ended up removing the THUMB from the filename and boosting the display property to 640X480, which of course pushed the right side of the image into oblivion in the saved page when viewed.
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No… I’d say that CD was better off before rolling out this latest enhancement. I am sorry about raking you guys over the coals like this, but I really can’t see how anyone could approve this mess, which will affect over a half-million mambers.
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On a last note, I’m gonna test the editing capabilities in Microsquish’s browser, in case it simply boils down to a lack of appreciation for competing browsers, which I also see as a major-league oversight.
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Sorry, but I gotta call ‘em as I see ‘em.

Um… WTF!
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I click and drag a picture into the editing screen and get a thumbnail. U use the wonderful new stretch capability and the thumbnail stretches… and so do the pixels. There is no more seeing the anymore in the editing screen. Does that still work and if so, why the hell isn’t that still written somewhere for instruction?
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My guess is that went to the wayside, but I’ll try a few things, including doing a search for instructions somewhere left by CD staff regarding the changes. You guys DID make up an instruction page somewhere… RIGHT? I guess I’ll find out and also discover how easy or hard it will be to find said information.

I used to insert pictures by typing something like . If I go to my current page and attempt edit, I no longer any picture insertion instructions and this format just prints text on my page. The main boarder shows my pictures under a section which says “edit page TEXT”. How do I insert pictures into an existing page which has converted automatically to the new format?

I also get the same problem with the picture sizing as others have noticed. Apparently we can shrink the picture size, but not increase the size without distortion.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Kirk

now there is only one problem. I used to be able to remember what number my next picture would be and now i cant do that. and i have ALOT of pictures. Now we just need a jump to last pic button for when were adding pics. then it would be perfect

man, the new system is hard to use! i like the old one, its better and simple to use.

I agree with Stewart. It’s a very nice upgrade that CarDomain did! Like Ryan told me now you can pretty much do whatever you want with your page. But most people, unlike Stewart, are not willing to learn new things or are too technologicly challenged! If you stop complaining about you can’t do this and you can’t do that and actually ask other people (NOT just Ryan) how to do things, then I’m pretty sure you will enjoy this upgrade!

Great job CarDomain!

Now about those shirts…..

I wasn’t too happy with the new system at first…
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It took awhile to get my first page back up and presentable.
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However,
now that I have made it most of the way over that
damned learning curve (OK maybe part way),
I do like the new system a lot better.
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The old system, was well, old.
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It didn’t have anywhere near the flexibility of this new system.
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Is it perfect?
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No.
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But it is 1000 times better.
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I, for one, am very happy with the time and effort the
CarDomain team spends on making this site better and better
every year.
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Yes, it took me the better part of a day learning how to make my page better…
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But, it is better!
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Man, I still can’t believe that I have font choices, colored text, font size choices, etc…
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Heck, I can even underline now!
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I haven’t even considered any of the advanced features we now have…
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I don’t know about the rest of you,
but I’ve gotten over my initial shock and complaining.
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It’s funny. I thought CarDomain had a server problem, so I emailed them telling them the site was not working correctly!
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Anyway, my page now looks GREAT! I love the new software.
I am very happy that I have some flexibility.
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And for those of you with a lot of text, pages, and photos; I feel your pain, as I have over 2000 uploaded pics, and 19 pages to re-do.
It’s gonna take me some time to do it…
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Still, it’s going to be worth it in the long run.
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Just my .02
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Stewart

Adam, your page looks great!!!

Alright, my page is updated with the new format! I’ll still be working on it in the next few days adding a couple more pages. Im so f’n happy I can put a slide show in now!

and my comment didnt even come out the way i made it..

this upgrade f*cking sucks.now all my words and text are alined in the middle…and not spaced right compared to wat i want it.. it looks like this on the edit page:

Told u this car was a money pit

1800 for car
3000 for paint
1500 for motor

BUT this is wat it came out like:

told u this car was a money pit
1800 for car

3000 for paint
1500 for motor
nuthin lines up and it lookes like shit..i want an option to keep the old way of doin it..this is bullshit.and now itll take forever for people with slow computers to not only upload a picture..but also have to double click it..then move it around while the computer freezes and unfreezes frames..its bull f*cking shit!

Ok, I got brave and tried it. No problems! Thanks.

Here’s a better solution. Give us a CHOICE to have it that way. Those of us that don’t want the extra “pain in the neck” editing like it the old way. I would rather NOT take a “websites for dummies” class just to update my page. I just like to get on, upload pictures (which takes a long time), edit my page easily and log off without the hassle of going back to my page because I don’t have enough commas or colons in the script.

or when i try to change the order my page links are stacked in. I press enter and it double spaces. seems to happen with everything that was grouped together before the switch to new format

ok now gettin stuff to line up right is startin to be a pita…

-on the editing page it will show no gap but on the actual page some pictures will be 4-5lines apart

-I left aligned a picture and it shows up right aligned.

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When you add your photo from the photo area you are only adding the 250 pixel wide image thus if you stretch it you will distort it. If you would like to use the big image you will need to substitute the full size image in place of the 250 image when editting the HTML.

Uhm…how do we align the pictures now?

i like the new idea and the font change but double clicking on the pics dont work and if you copy and past them they are too small and when you try to resize them they are distorted and look like shit my sugestion is to leave the font change and put everything else back the way it was

After reading the comments, I think my novice-butt will remain in the past. Thankyou for your efforts to improve our sites though.

Yeah I can’t get my pics to come up anymore either! I double clicked before and the would pop up below now I double click and nothing.

and what i am i supposed to do when everytime i pull up a picture and size it it turns to a grainy mess, like all its doing is taking the thumbnail and blowing it up, how do i get full size pictures again? i doubleclick on the thumbnail and it doesn’t do a thing

Awesome. Love how they come up with more stuff for us to do with our ride pages. Thank you Cardomain. You guy’s have the best website ever. I spend more time on here than I did with any other website.

While You Cardomain Fanatic’s are busy Editing you’r ride page’s, Come check out my garage when you all get a chance. L8TER………………………………………………………

AWESOME!!!

Hey ‘kap0w’ , thank you soo much!!really appreciate it!

Thanks Ryan, it’s looking the way it should now. Good luck at the show!

i appreciate it but idk how to put a ride page url

I’d help you anonymous potty mouth person, but you neglected to put your name and ride page info on your comment.

oh yea this is so great, HOW THE FUCK DO I GET MY FUCKING PICTURES BACK ON THE FUCKING PAGE

I just responded to all my messages. Anyways I will see you after the weekend… I’m going to a car show in San Fran and will be back after the weekend.

Sorry about that, checking now.

OK guys.
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I am LOVING the new format!
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I have different colored text, different sized text,
different fonts, and UNDERLINING!!!!
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I have been working on my page since November 2004.
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I have 19 pages, and over 2000 photos downloaded.
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My page is updated daily.
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Yes, this has been some work to get the first page re-done,
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And…
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It is TOTALLY WORTH IT!
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Thanks again CarDomain!

I keep reading from Ryan that if you have any probs just personal message him……..well Ryan, I messaged you 8 hours ago to answer 1 question and I’m still waiting for a reply!

Great update!
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Stewart and Ryan, your ride pages look great! I haven’t played with my ride page yet, but I can’t wait to get to work on it!

Just a heads up, we are also working on a FAQ to help everyone make the best ride pages you can.

In the meantime, let me know what you think of my update rides:
My Smart http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3020233
My Sti http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2999762
My old M Coupe http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3082853
And the gf’s new Audi http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3133610

I’m sorry that the new ride page editor is not working smoothly for you. If there are any specific that I can help you with, please feel free to PM me.

I can’t believe you guys did this to us! I tried saving my changes and everything looks retarded now. I have 30 pages, and your site is soooo slow when it comes to anything and there is no way in heck that I’m going to rewrite all of my pages, figure out everything, and reload all 800 pictures! You need to make this so that we can choose the old format or the new one. You need to make the new format consistent and compatible with the old format so when I save the page it doesn’t ruin all of my hard work. It’s sad that you guys are making it harder and harder to be a member of this site, and now it is impossible for me to continue being one…. if only there was a way to delete your profile for good!

Stewart – Your page is looking great… we might have to feature in the blog just because!!!

Highspeedhijinks – I too have managed to make the alignment do some funky things but overall we are hoping that this new editor is a good step forward and we are hope to keep the new features coming. If you have any ideas, don’t hesitate to contact me!

My page is coming along nicely…
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I like this new format!
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My text is in different colors!!!!!
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Man, do I have a lot of work to do to edit all 19 pages…
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I do like the changes though.
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Thanks CarDomain!

Hey Ryan, Im allready having issues with image allignment and text allignment. Thank god theres an undo button.
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This is going to take some getting used to.

Embedding videos still works. Just grab your embed link, edit your page, press the little HTML button, and paste the embed code in – voila – it should work!

I’m used to being confused, so the changes won’t affect me much.

Cool, it sounds like things are working. You see the first time you edit your page after the update everything gets squished down to one line. From there all you need to do is set the page up like you want it to look. It’s a little work up front but in the end we think everyone will be able to make more attractive ride pages and express themselves better.

If you guys want to know how I did anything on my ride pages, just PM me.

Its a good change but i cant add embedded videos to my page?!? what the..

I agree with stewart on the old styl of cardomain!

Hey Ritch,

You are absolutely right and we are working on that as well. You should see a change in that in our next release. (about 2 weeks out)

Ritch,
I know how you feel.
I have thousands of downloaded pics…

I noticed the change this morning.
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All the pics on my first page disappeared
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And the text was all run together in a run-on sentence.
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I’m redoing my first page today…
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I can see that it will be much better and much easier
to use the site.
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Some of us who have been on Cardomain for awhile, and have learned
the “CarDomain style” of image inserting and text will have
to re-learn.
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Man, I must be getting old!

Awesome! Now add a function that will take you to the last page of uploaded pictures. With over 700 pictures uploaded, I have to go thru 20 pix at a time to get to the last uploaded ones. Just a thought. Thanks.

Ok that’s cool and all but can we GET SOME SHIRTS AND STICKERS from Cardomain! I’ll even volunteer with doing the design! (im capable of doing that go to page 6)