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Thats why we have the Garage function.

One is a Garage, the other is added profile info. Different methods of doing the same thing but in the end it takes the member to take advantage of functions.

 

Thanks

 

To get the car info into the popup would entail a rewrite of the that feature in the product. It would also create more load on the server with db queries to pull and display this data.

It becomes a balance. Each method, the Garage and Profile information has flaws. I thought about the profile information method. This is where I think it is flawed in the TotalMINI application. The registration process for the site becomes a PITA as they make all that info mandatory to register. You have to be totally committed in your desire to join that site as about the only thing not asked is inseam measurements. Also if you have more than 1 MINI you can't add the second.

The Garage has flaws too, it is voluntary so it is not fully utilized by all. We have a very good take rate here on M/A, mostly because I push it by providing a link in the welcome email and I often write about how it is useful in the newsletter.

Then we have privacy issues. Some people don't want this info out there. I'd rather give them that option than lose potential members by forcing the issue.

 

Jim / Nathan....
I just added mine to the top of the sig pic for convenience.

 

Or do as I did, use your car info as a link to the garage.

 

Change the line "2009, MC, MY/B" to be:

HTML:

[url="http://www.motoringalliance.com/forums/garage/1496"]2009, MC, MY/B[/url] 

I should add that the ID number at the end of the url is unique to each user. If someone besides Jim copies that directly it will point to Jim's Garage.

I suddenly have visions of 100's of sigs all pointing to Jim's Garage

 

Hey Jim....
Notice the super extra special service you get when you are a M/A "Supporting Member"?

 

Now if you were a "Lifetime Premium Member", Nathan would be pulling into your driveway about now.

 

In this case membership does not have it's privileges. I would the same for all that ask.

 

It's there...

 

Jim.....
Did you hit "Save Changes", at the bottom of the page?