Hi Guys, I mentioned in another thread about creating a sticky for various guides, that people post up as we are getting a few now, and from that sticky linking to the full thread.

...But I was thinking, now we have a shiny new Tek, and we are looking to get more visitors, is it worth making a guides section, so it's easy to find, easy to add to (no one has to update the sticky each time), and if a new visitor came to the site to look at one guide, they would then easily see a whole load in that section.

Granted this wont me the most active part of the forum, but I think it's worth while and could potentially introduce more visitors?

What are your thoughts, either way we need to setup one or the other I just think a seperate section would be cleaner and we already have a load of guides to fill it up with, from HTPC setup to batch file scripting, and I'm happy and sure you will be, to add others as I get the time to put them together.

Thanks

Jake

sounds like a great idea to me! even discounting the possible new visitor attraction, it would be good to have somewhere these can go where they don't get lost amongst everything else.

I've just noticed your new avatar, very cool, great idea!

Cheers mate, it was Egg's pic that inspired me

And in terms of getting more visitors, some one mentioned doing a full fry up on old very hot CPUs.. Maybe we need to plan a meet and get cooking

I wouldn't mind doing this as a sub-forum as its a great idea (especially if some of the old guide threads could be dug up), but I'm not sure which forum it would branch off, as we could have home cinema guides, computer guides, car guides, etc. Maybe under GD?

Can you do sub forums then?

I was more thinking of a new forum section? Then doesn't matter what you put in there?

Unless you do sub forums on each and maybe call it Guides & Projects?

How would sub forums look and work?

Quote from: XEntity on February 18, 2011, 21:54:44 PM
Can you do sub forums then?

I was more thinking of a new forum section? Then doesn't matter what you put in there?

Unless you do sub forums on each and maybe call it Guides & Projects?

How would sub forums look and work?

If you add an inner shadow to the person frame on your avatar the effect will be even better.

Quote from: neXus on February 18, 2011, 21:57:16 PM

Quote from: XEntity on February 18, 2011, 21:54:44 PM
Can you do sub forums then?

I was more thinking of a new forum section? Then doesn't matter what you put in there?

Unless you do sub forums on each and maybe call it Guides & Projects?

How would sub forums look and work?

If you add an inner shadow to the person frame on your avatar the effect will be even better.

Better now?

after just helping someone on a bio diesel forum, a guide / how too for a quick format/re-install with what to do once you're installed would be really handy ?

so how to boot up from the cd, install (with a format option)
maybe a quite bit about drivers, how to check them in device manager, how to google them, how to install them
and then the odd little things like changing windows theme
changing the taskbar, adding a quick launch menu to win7
hot to make msn etc.. minimise down to an icon next to the clock (what's that called anyway?)
change group/combine options

with our user base here, we could have a guide for pretty much anything/everything.... and without all the adverts and crap which you usually find

A Guides forum is a great idea but I think I'd be tempted to have just 1 forum with all the guides in. Otherwise we'll just end up with loads of sub-forums with a few threads in :s

Quote from: Nimrod on February 18, 2011, 23:43:58 PM
A Guides forum is a great idea but I think I'd be tempted to have just 1 forum with all the guides in. Otherwise we'll just end up with loads of sub-forums with a few threads in :s

I agree... Also is the forum screwey for anyone else? The speech bubbles on posts have gone for me?

Quote from: knighty on February 18, 2011, 23:36:30 PM
after just helping someone on a bio diesel forum,

need a guide for that - want to run my L200 (4m40 engine - quite easy to do supposedly, but I need an idiot's guide)

egg, do you want to run on proper bio diesel or on veg oil ?

check out this forum.... http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum

is yours an L200 or an L400 ? I can't find any info about an L200 with the 2.8 engine ? just the 400

if it is the 400, you're fine just to put veg oil in the tank and drive it as normal..... you should be able to mix quite a bit in without making any changes to it....  the trick is to start adding it slow and not to fill the tank....

pick up a 20l can of veg oil from bookers/macro (or a load of small bottles from ASDA) and just mix it in.... try 10l veg to 20diesel to start...   as long as you don't fill the tank you can always fill it with diesel to dilute it if you have any problems

once you get over 60/40 veg/diesel mix in 5% of petrol and it really thins it out (measurements don;t need to be accurate)
(don;t worry about putting petrol in a diesel, it won;t do any hard and it's recommended in your drivers manual thing for when the weather gets really cold!)

if you want to use a higher % of veg oil, or you want to get veg oil from a chippy etc... you'll need to fit a heater to the fuel line, but it's a piece of cake to do ;-)

if you get sorted, I'll happily sent you an IBC (1000litres) of veg oil ready to use at cost.... I pay 40p/litre right now and could sent it by pallet line for about £60......  you can get it free from chippys but it's a pita

(p.s. if you use less than 2500litres a year it's paperwork/tax free )

Quote from: knighty on February 19, 2011, 00:35:50 AM
egg, do you want to run on proper bio diesel or on veg oil ?

check out this forum.... http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum

is yours an L200 or an L400 ? I can't find any info about an L200 with the 2.8 engine ? just the 400

if it is the 400, you're fine just to put veg oil in the tank and drive it as normal..... you should be able to mix quite a bit in without making any changes to it....  the trick is to start adding it slow and not to fill the tank....

pick up a 20l can of veg oil from bookers/macro (or a load of small bottles from ASDA) and just mix it in.... try 10l veg to 20diesel to start...   as long as you don't fill the tank you can always fill it with diesel to dilute it if you have any problems

once you get over 60/40 veg/diesel mix in 5% of petrol and it really thins it out (measurements don;t need to be accurate)
(don;t worry about putting petrol in a diesel, it won;t do any hard and it's recommended in your drivers manual thing for when the weather gets really cold!)

if you want to use a higher % of veg oil, or you want to get veg oil from a chippy etc... you'll need to fit a heater to the fuel line, but it's a piece of cake to do ;-)

if you get sorted, I'll happily sent you an IBC (1000litres) of veg oil ready to use at cost.... I pay 40p/litre right now and could sent it by pallet line for about £60......  you can get it free from chippys but it's a pita

(p.s. if you use less than 2500litres a year it's paperwork/tax free )

thats the forum ive been reading - I dont know to run it on bio or wvo
its an l200 2..8 turbo (quite rare) with the 4m40 engine - same engine thats in
2.8 Pajero, Delica & L400

Ive seen them machines on ebay for £1500 that filter & wash wvo & was tempted to get one of them & go that root.
I would want to go the heater route just in case theres a problem - I saw a link someone posted to them on ebay for
about £40 - I'd have no idea where it would need to go or anything though.

Quote from: XEntity on February 18, 2011, 23:45:19 PM

Quote from: Nimrod on February 18, 2011, 23:43:58 PM
A Guides forum is a great idea but I think I'd be tempted to have just 1 forum with all the guides in. Otherwise we'll just end up with loads of sub-forums with a few threads in :s

I agree... Also is the forum screwey for anyone else? The speech bubbles on posts have gone for me?

I agree, a sub-forum wouldn't work.

neXus took off the speech bubbles by popular demand I'm sure you've sussed.