focus challenge website - Focaljet

**02_smurf** · 02-04-2005, 12:26 AM

Considering that the next focus challenge event is less than a month away, I'm shocked and disapointed that the website hasn't been updated since the pahrump results.

I mean, I know its hard to take care of a website and all, but with so many people involved the site shouldn't just fall to the side. Get mad at me if ya want, but I just thought that maybe mentioning something would get some results?

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-04-2005, 12:27 AM

email belacyrf.

**airforcefocus** · 02-04-2005, 12:38 AM

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email belacyrf.

**slidemaster** · 02-04-2005, 10:06 AM

Well a few folks have been requesting updates for a few weeks..I hear the same complaints from a few guys that want to run, they get amped and check the sight and nothing has changed

The sight kinda is abandon it appears..David is to busy and no one else has access or the ability (in my case)

**Primaris** · 02-04-2005, 10:57 AM

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Well a few folks have been requesting updates for a few weeks..I hear the same complaints from a few guys that want to run, they get amped and check the sight and nothing has changed

The sight kinda is abandon it appears..David is to busy and no one else has access or the ability (in my case)

I thought the Focus Challenge thing was trying to become a genuine race series. If you are actually trying to get a real series going; get David to give you access to the site, then fire him.

A company, group, team, etc. is better off with no web site than one that hasn't been updated in six months.

Anyway, how does one find out about the Focus Challenge thing?

**OmniFocus** · 02-04-2005, 11:35 AM

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Anyway, how does one find out about the Focus Challenge thing?

Uhhh... The webpage.

**Primaris** · 02-04-2005, 12:33 PM

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Anyway, how does one find out about the Focus Challenge thing?

Uhhh... The webpage.

Take a look: http://www.focuschallenge.com/events.asp

**slidemaster** · 02-04-2005, 12:43 PM

I share the frustration...but David is not compensated, in fact he built the sight as a favor. As one of the founders he help build the enthusiasm here on the jet. Its lots of effort and momentum just to let go

We just need someone in IT to take over. Hopefully david will join us at the track and play

**OmniFocus** · 02-04-2005, 12:45 PM

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Anyway, how does one find out about the Focus Challenge thing?

Uhhh... The webpage.

Take a look: http://www.focuschallenge.com/events.asp

I know... it was a joke.

Sorry.

The tentative schedule was posted in this thread.
http://www.focaljet.com/ubbthreads/showf...ge=1#2416561515

**02_smurf** · 02-04-2005, 12:59 PM

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I share the frustration...but David is not compensated, in fact he built the sight as a favor. As one of the founders he help build the enthusiasm here on the jet. Its lots of effort and momentum just to let go

We just need someone in IT to take over. Hopefully david will join us at the track and play

and I understand this, and really wish I knew how to do this stuff so I could help, but....sigh, I'll stop. This is bordering blaming one person and I don't want to blame someone that did this for us.

**OmniFocus** · 02-04-2005, 01:18 PM

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I don't want to blame someone that did this for us.

Exactly.

**hotrodkris** · 02-04-2005, 01:19 PM

And to think, they have a snappy new logo and everything.

**Gutted Hatch** · 02-04-2005, 01:36 PM

Ouch! You guys are vicious!

**SlickShoes** · 02-04-2005, 01:52 PM

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We just need someone in IT to take over.

Exactly. David's said for months and months now that he's been pulled into a new project at work that's consuming just about every ounce of code related energy he has and that he's more than willing to hand over the keys to someone able to run with it.

Also, its not a normal website, so just knowing HTML won't cut it. The site is virtually 100% database driven off of MS SQL and all pages are custom home-grown ASP code. I'm poking around in it a bit to see if I can figure it out, and if so I'll see about updating the page. If I can figure this out, I don't mind running the site.

Till then, bur, Nik, slidemaster, and airforce have been given admin rights to at least the front page. So feel free to update that with whatever you'd like.

**OmniFocus** · 02-04-2005, 02:29 PM

I'm willing to learn any code on the fly that might be needed...

**Ted7rns** · 02-04-2005, 03:52 PM

Or you can get MS FrontPage and do it....It's very easy.

I've been able to keep mysite up to date all the time by using MS FrontPage. You can make easy changes very quickly.

http://socal.nasa-tt.com/

**OmniFocus** · 02-04-2005, 04:24 PM

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Or you can get MS FrontPage and do it....It's very easy.

It'd have to be rewritten to be FrontPage compatible, it isn't HTML.

I also don't believe FrontPage can do the database work either.

**airforcefocus** · 02-04-2005, 09:08 PM

"Till then, bur, Nik, slidemaster, and airforce have been given admin rights to at least the front page. So feel free to update that with whatever you'd like."

I "updated" the site to reflect my "new" lap times, apparently they were all too slow.

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-04-2005, 09:32 PM

nevermind...

The schedule has been updated... but for some reason it's not showing.

I'll see if we can't get that bug worked out somehow.

We appreciate your patience.

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-04-2005, 09:44 PM

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Or you can get MS FrontPage and do it....It's very easy.

I've been able to keep mysite up to date all the time by using MS FrontPage. You can make easy changes very quickly.

http://socal.nasa-tt.com/

Front page will most certainly NOT keep the database as it is. Unfortunately.

And FrontPage is NOT easy at all... Microsnot puts too much mettle in their crap and you get clunky looking webpages.

(like a carriage return generates a new paragraph... not a new line... or hitting enter creates a <p> tag instead of a <br&gt

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-04-2005, 10:06 PM

OK Event Page updated..... The East Coast track info isn't put in the database yet, so it'll be amended....

Thanks for your understanding.

**8888** · 02-04-2005, 10:11 PM

Can't we just start the page from scratch using a program people know how to use.

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-04-2005, 11:20 PM

Sure... assuming you can integrate the complex database that determines handicaps.

If you have a better way than SQL... I'd like to hear it.

**8888** · 02-04-2005, 11:33 PM

Ahhh, ok, i understand the problem now. I'll go hide in the corner now.

**BUR_ZX3** · 02-05-2005, 01:26 AM

The thought had crossed my mind to make the entire driver registration manual... and take it off line entirely for ease off website administration....

But Seriously... Bela put a TON of hard work into that thing... and for the most part it works perfectly (slight tweaks here and there) so I'd hate to see it go.

02-04-2005, 12:26 AM	#1
02_smurf Moderator Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: With the wemenz: Em or mom Posts: 12,509	focus challenge website Considering that the next focus challenge event is less than a month away, I'm shocked and disapointed that the website hasn't been updated since the pahrump results. I mean, I know its hard to take care of a website and all, but with so many people involved the site shouldn't just fall to the side. Get mad at me if ya want, but I just thought that maybe mentioning something would get some results?

02-04-2005, 10:06 AM	#4
slidemaster Professor PowerSlide Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: steering backward through the mirror Posts: 7,902	Re: focus challenge website Well a few folks have been requesting updates for a few weeks..I hear the same complaints from a few guys that want to run, they get amped and check the sight and nothing has changed The sight kinda is abandon it appears..David is to busy and no one else has access or the ability (in my case)

02-04-2005, 12:43 PM	#8
slidemaster Professor PowerSlide Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: steering backward through the mirror Posts: 7,902	Re: focus challenge website I share the frustration...but David is not compensated, in fact he built the sight as a favor. As one of the founders he help build the enthusiasm here on the jet. Its lots of effort and momentum just to let go We just need someone in IT to take over. Hopefully david will join us at the track and play

02-04-2005, 01:19 PM	#12
hotrodkris The One and Only HotRodKristina Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Castle Albrecht Posts: 27,369	Re: focus challenge website And to think, they have a snappy new logo and everything.

02-04-2005, 01:36 PM	#13
Gutted Hatch [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: SoCal (Temecula) Posts: 7,065	Re: focus challenge website Ouch! You guys are vicious!

02-04-2005, 12:27 AM	#2
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Little Saint Clara, Isle of Queen Califia Posts: 35,702	Re: focus challenge website email belacyrf.

02-04-2005, 02:29 PM	#15
OmniFocus Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Mowin' down the cones. (CA) Posts: 26,223	Re: focus challenge website I'm willing to learn any code on the fly that might be needed...

02-04-2005, 03:52 PM	#16
Ted7rns Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Thousand Oaks, California Posts: 4,202	Re: focus challenge website Or you can get MS FrontPage and do it....It's very easy. I've been able to keep mysite up to date all the time by using MS FrontPage. You can make easy changes very quickly. http://socal.nasa-tt.com/

02-04-2005, 09:08 PM	#18
airforcefocus [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Moreno Valley , Calif. Posts: 5,828	Re: focus challenge website "Till then, bur, Nik, slidemaster, and airforce have been given admin rights to at least the front page. So feel free to update that with whatever you'd like." I "updated" the site to reflect my "new" lap times, apparently they were all too slow.

02-04-2005, 09:32 PM	#19
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Little Saint Clara, Isle of Queen Califia Posts: 35,702	Re: focus challenge website nevermind... The schedule has been updated... but for some reason it's not showing. I'll see if we can't get that bug worked out somehow. We appreciate your patience.

02-04-2005, 10:06 PM	#21
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Little Saint Clara, Isle of Queen Califia Posts: 35,702	Re: focus challenge website OK Event Page updated..... The East Coast track info isn't put in the database yet, so it'll be amended.... Thanks for your understanding.

02-04-2005, 10:11 PM	#22
8888 TEAM Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Goleta, CA Posts: 412	Re: focus challenge website Can't we just start the page from scratch using a program people know how to use.

02-04-2005, 11:20 PM	#23
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Little Saint Clara, Isle of Queen Califia Posts: 35,702	Re: focus challenge website Sure... assuming you can integrate the complex database that determines handicaps. If you have a better way than SQL... I'd like to hear it.

02-04-2005, 11:33 PM	#24
8888 TEAM Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Goleta, CA Posts: 412	Re: focus challenge website Ahhh, ok, i understand the problem now. I'll go hide in the corner now.

02-05-2005, 01:26 AM	#25
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Little Saint Clara, Isle of Queen Califia Posts: 35,702	Re: focus challenge website The thought had crossed my mind to make the entire driver registration manual... and take it off line entirely for ease off website administration.... But Seriously... Bela put a TON of hard work into that thing... and for the most part it works perfectly (slight tweaks here and there) so I'd hate to see it go.

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