Good to see the forum is back 
Sorry about that. For some reason the Apache server froze. Restarted it and seems to be fine now.
Apologies for the inconvenience
Good to be back. Thanks
Glad its sorted! Especially so close to Christmas.
Thanks David. Do you have any plans to upgrade the forum to bring it up to date? It is sad to see the place is in decline, perhaps due to the popularity of other forums eg TLF, and I as Iām sure many others would hate to see exiges.com quietly disappear or continue its steady decline in posts and active members.
Thoughts?
Is there any feature or functionality in particular you would like to see ? My only points of reference are Scoobynet and the Evo Magazine forum which arenāt dissimilar to this site (although the evo site isnāt mobile friendly)
Uploading pictures directly from a PC rather than having to use a hosting site (I am an IT numpty btw)
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Unless Iām the only one with the privileges to do that, thereās an upload function beneath the Submit button whenever you go to make a post - let me know if you donāt see a link to the image Iāve just uploaded:
There is, but the pixel limit for each pic is only 300x300. Can this limit be increased?
Try now
Looks like thatās sorted the issue then, cheers
Great, I see that now 
The main problem is maybe how to increase the activity on here. A million dollar question perhaps? The current lack of comments about this recent loss of the forum and in fact the last does seem to suggest a lack of interest (or awareness) of this place. It has been a great source of information over the years, and through the forum I have met some great people that have become great friends. I hope that can continue for everyoneās benefit.
Thanks again.
I like this forum a lot. Compared to other sites, especially some German ones, the people here are very friendly, polite and helpful. Besides meeting other owners of the Exige S1 this is the main reason Iām urunning my āproject threadā on this site.
So thanks to all who are involved to run this forum 
Allow to upload bigger pictures is very useful improvement. Besides making it easy for the poster it helps to keep the post readable when they get older. Many older post are now useless since all pictures are lost because they were hosted on some exotic site or the user removed the account and all the pictures (last big hit was the photobucket suicide).
But I agree with Tim that the traffic on this site is really low. It may be related to the fact that most of the Exige owners are rather long time owners.
New owners like me, ScNomad/Kevin or others tend to be more active and excited about their car. But there are only a few cars actually changing hands so difficult to change this. Giving new members a warm welcome and make it easy to become a member on here are my only ideas. Does it still take a couple of weeks until a new account has been confirmed?
Bye, Klaus
Iām doing a few tweaks on the site today, to make it more Google/Search Engine friendly, as Exiges.com simply doesnāt show up if you look for ālotus exigeā which isnāt how it should be.
If you have any problems, let me know
Thatās fantastic news on the photo upload. Been a real pain since photobucket kicked us all out.
OK so Iāve made the necessary tweaks.
For the geeks amongst you (you know who you areā¦):
- The site no longer does a redirect from the homepage www.exiges.com to www.exiges.com/bb/index.php this makes Google happy, itās not a fan of redirects, particularly on homepages
- There is now no longer a /bb subdirectory. Google is happier the nearer the content is to the root url
- There are now meta description / page title that better reflect the siteās/page contents - This also makes Google happy
Iām trying to get the site to do some URL rewriting so that Exiges.com - Exiges.com - Lotus exige club appears like http://www.exiges.com/1/car-of-the-month-20446 but for some reason SEOBB is having none of it and iām running out of time today.
If youāre seeing graphical/CSS type glitches and pages arenāt loading correctly clear your browser cache
Hey Dave. Can we embed the likes of YouTube or Vimeo?
Howās the garage, any new additionsā¦
Well said Klaus
