A bit of TGSR coding history

 In the early 2000's Frank, Dan and Mark were creating all the page in Microsoft Frontpage. It was pretty time and labor intensive since we didn't have a forum to collect all this information. In fact, the Technical Section was something that had me continually writing pages for.

 Needless to say we were all glad to see the forum appear in that it gave us our lives back. But then we ran into problems because we were still doing the Bike Of The Month (BOTM), Photo Gallery and the Owner's Registry by hand. What forced my hand is when Microsoft decided to croak Microsoft Frontpage. Since I couldn't see this site being run by a bunch of HTML writing editors, I decided to design a new website. I wanted the code to be database driven so we wouldn't have to contantly be creating web pages.

 So in the Fall of 2013 I started coding the website. It took almost a year of coding to get it done in my spare time. It is comprised of the website you see when you log on to The GSResources. It also has a backend that us editors use to deal with the BOTM, Photo Gallery and the contributions.

The latest major update to the website is now complete!

As of 2/13/26

  • More hours than I care to think about (14+ hours a day), and more major changes under the covers. Nothing most people will see, unless I broke something that used to work?!? All system databases have been restructured and optimized. The code has once again been gone through and optimized as well.

  • Geolocation code was added the Owner's Registry so that entries could be placed on the new GS Map.

  • And of course there is the new GS Map! I am especially proud of this, It took a quite while to research this and be able to do it all free. I hope that your as happy as I am about it.

  • And for those sharp eyed people out there you probably noticed the ladybug on the main toolbar. That basically gives you all another way to get in touch with me. We'll see how it goes. If the hackers figure that it's another way to spam me I might have to pull it, but we'll see.

As of 1/20/26

  • Due to popular request, you will see the forum username fields in the Bike Of The Month, Photo Gallery and Owner's Registry areas. Folks spending time in the forums dislike using email. They felt that having a forum user name in people's profiles would make life easier.

    As of a week ago I went through the forum database and added forum usernames to anyone that was listed in the Owner's Registry. If you have an entry in either the Photo Gallery or Owner's Registry you can add your forum username to your profile by editing your entry. If you would like to have your BOTM profile updated then just let Mark or I (Frank) know and we'll get it done for you.

  • A recommendation that was made in regards to the BOTM was that I add a channel to the forum for people to discuss future BOTM's. This has been done and the hope is that it will lead to more submissions for BOTM. It also serves as a great central location to have discussions about BOTM condidates. Be sure to head on over!

  • Speaking of forums, I recently updated the forum software. For better or worse it had to be done due to incompatibilities with the software we run on the webhost. We were also having issues with the software being too old and no longer receiving security updates. The site deals enough with people trying to hack their way in so it makes no sense in giving them another way in. Regardless, I hope you enjoy once you get familiar with it.

  • I did a ton of bug fixes. Apparently we had a few minor bugs and a few major ones. For instance you couldn't edit your Owner's Registry entries. So it's all fixed or at least what I could find. And I went through the whole website. If you see a bug then be sure to send me a PM in the forum or drop me an email and let me know. I can't fix them if I don't know about them.

Future Website Projects

  • T.B.D.

Website Statistics as of 2/11/26

For the geeks out there, here are some of the numbers behind the website.

  • 423 files
  • 1769 images
  • 15 database tables
  • ~12,000 lines of PHP code
  • 2387 lines of CSS code
  • 7277 lines of HTML code