Fate of the MrColumbia web site

[Saving Tempest]

And don't send it to Facebook hell?

 

[Freqman1]

If it goes to FB I will never see it...

 

[MrColumbia]

I've had a lot of positive responses so far and some good and varied ideas. Some have suggested some how folding it into the CABE and I am going to look into that. I know facebook is also put out there but if it went that route it would be without me involved, I have no desire to get involved with facebook. There have been other ideas as well to look into including an entire rebuild.

Let me ask you all this, what is the most important parts of the site that you would want preserved and what could you do without? In whatever form it takes going forward it no doubt will not be 50 pages long with as many pictures as it has now. I'm sure the serial number page will stay as it seems to be the most commonly accessed page by far but what other features would people like to see?

 

[bikiba]

I've had a lot of positive responses so far and some good and varied ideas. Some have suggested some how folding it into the CABE and I am going to look into that. I know facebook is also put out there but if it went that route it would be without me involved, I have no desire to get involved with facebook. There have been other ideas as well to look into including an entire rebuild.

Let me ask you all this, what is the most important parts of the site that you would want preserved and what could you do without? In whatever form it takes going forward it no doubt will not be 50 pages long with as many pictures as it has now. I'm sure the serial number page will stay as it seems to be the most commonly accessed page by far but what other features would people like to see?

Mr C

i just looked through your site and it is just text and pics. Someone could port that to blogspot in a day. Probably like 3 hours honestly. Updated format and would be free and make the old folks happy by not being on FB as well as nice looking on a mobile.

I took literally 5 mins and created an account for you and copy and pasted your welcome page.

Here is the site: http://vintagecolumbiabikes.blogspot.com

If ya want it, let me know and ill send you the username and password, I would even port it all for you tonight and you can take it from there. No charge

If you dont want it, I will delete it no problemo.

-Steve

 

[catfish]

Just start making photo albums here on the CABE. Bikes, Catalogs, Info.

 

[Saving Tempest]

So far that BlogSpot site looks very good!

'Website' is spelled webSTIE toward the middle tho

 

[bikiba]

So far that BlogSpot site looks very good!

'Website' is spelled webSTIE toward the middle tho

and that was with 0 formatting or time. I just copied and pasted. With a few mins, he can be up and running at no cost....forever, and have the same type of control and flexibility he had before.

 

[MrColumbia]

Just start making photo albums here on the CABE. Bikes, Catalogs, Info.

I like the idea of putting my catalog's here on the CABE for every one to access for free. I have about 370 titles with some of the older catalgs being over 50 pages each all in high resolution scans. This is a massive amount of data to download. Anyone have an idea of how to go about it? They are in both pdf (entire catalog in one file, searchable) and jpg (each page sepereate file) formats.

There have been a lot of ideas on how to proceed with the web site itself. Some are under consideration and others are not the direction that I want to go but the catalogs here on the Cabe is a definate go if there is space to do it.

 

[KingSized HD]

The website seems to be down. I was trying to research a Columbia I just bought and got this response at the @MrColumbia site. It’s been a few days now, anyone know if this is permanent?
Thanks much.

 

[MrColumbia]

It is gone for good. I have all the information on my computer of course but the web site is no more and cannot be retrieved.

I Still would like to put much of the info here on the CABE but am not sure how to proceed.