SuperMotors Free Car Club Service
SuperMotors club services are designed specifically for automotive clubs. Those who run automotive clubs are intimately aware that it is a time-consuming process and each club has their own way of doing "their thing." Automotive clubs of all shapes and sizes will love our services. Take advantage of one or all of our club features and take charge of your club's online presence. Club owners, admins, presidents, and webmasters can easily manage their club's resources via our web-based management interface. The following features are available for free to any automotive club. Please click on the items below for detailed descriptions of each club feature.
Club Features:
Club creation is free and easy and only takes a couple minutes of your time.
Message forums
Message forums are an ever-popular service. Our message forum service is unique when compared to other free forum software available on the Internet because we offer full integration of your member's accounts with their forum, registry entries, maintenance logs, and all other SuperMotors services. Message forums have a full, web-based management interface for you and your club admins, moderators, or webmasters to maintain topics, organization, and the integrity of your club's discussions. Here's a sample forum layout of the FordExcursions.com car club. No databases to setup, no web hosting agreements to deal with, and no programming knowledge is necessary. Join today and start offering message forums to your club's members!
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Photo, audio, and video albums for your club members
Manually maintaining member photo albums and galleries is a time-consuming task. Put the power of posting photos, audio files, and video files in the hands of your members by creating a club on the SuperMotors network. Each member has the ability to create and manage their own registry entries complete with spec sheets, maintenance logs, and photo, video, and audio albums. Gone are the days where club members e-mail you to have you post their photos. They can do it all on their own via our easy account management interface. Here's a sample registry entry of a 2000 Ford Excursion, part of the FordExcursions.com car club. No databases to setup, no web hosting agreements to deal with, and no programming knowledge is necessary. Join today and start offering photo, audio, and video hosting services to your club's members!
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Manual/Automatic approval of user membership into your club
Some clubs are open to the public, some aren't. With the club administration interface, you have the control to toggle on/off the approval process for new members wishing to join your club. If you'd like to manually approve each member and vehicle registry entry into your club, no problem! Is your site on the larger side and do manual approvals become too time-consuming? Either way, you have the power to control who joins your club, and on what terms they join your club all via the web-based club management interface.
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Vehicle registry
In addition to your members being able to maintain their own photo, audio, and video albums, your club then also gets a vehicle registry which contains the complete list of member vehicles. This is a great way for members to show off their rides to other members and is an invaluable resource to members looking to see photos of other member vehicles.
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Member listings
Each user that joins and is manually or automatically approved into your club will automatically be listed on your club's member listing page. This allows you to keep track of your members and it allows other members to see who all belongs to your club, what city, state, and country they live in, and a contact form so they can e-mail each other. No HTML programming required!
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Fully searchable & sortable
Message forums and registry entries are fully searchable by keywords and phrases. The registry allows you to search for specific year, make, and model ranges as well as by keyword. Member listings and registry listings are fully sortable by each of their column headings. [view] This is an extremely valuable tool for your members and enables them to quickly and easily locate the information they are searching for no matter where it lives within your SuperMotors club.
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Full, web-based management of club members & vehicle listings
Is a member getting out of hand? Has someone posted inappropriate photos, sounds, or videos in their registry entry? Temporarily suspend them or kick them out of your club's site via the web-based management interface. By suspending or kicking the user and/or their vehicles from your club, the offending user or content will no longer be seen within your club's registry listing or member listing.
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Customization of several club-related pages and navigation
In addition to managing vehicle registry entries, club forums, and user membership, there are other pages that you control the content of, too! Each club can have their own logo be a part of their club navigation (see this SuperFord.org example), control the content of the "contact" page, and control the content of the "about" page. Additionally, to help other new members find your club, each club can categorize their target vehicles (i.e. 1987-1993 Ford Mustangs) and target audience (i.e. Street Performance, Restoration, etc.) which then get listed as a part of your club listing on the SuperMotors network. This allows other folks searching for clubs like yours to easily locate automotive clubs that match their interests.
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No limits to the number of members, vehicles, photos, sounds, or messages posted
Unlike some other sites, SuperMotors DOES NOT limit the number of members, vehicles, photos, sounds, or messages posted for your club. You are free to use as much space as possible as long as it is automotive-related!
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Unique club URL
Each free SuperMotors club gets a unique club URL. You choose a club username for your account (i.e. camaroclub) and then your club gets its unique URL (i.e. http://supermotors.net/clubs/camaroclub ).
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Eliminate costly bandwidth and storage charges
Photo hosting and message forums can generate enormous bandwidth and storage charges when your club website is frequented by enthusiasts on a daily basis. By outsourcing the community-related features of your club on SuperMotors, you no longer have to worry about figuring out how to cover next month's hosting fees.
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Unique club presence & experience
In addition to the unique URL, club features, and web-based club management, your club gets a unique club presence. A SuperMotors header will always live at the top of your club's page with quick-links to your members' account management settings. The overall experience for your members will be fun and exciting! With the integration of several features like the registry, photo albums, and club forums and the ability to have one account and password for it all makes for a service that your members will constantly come back to.
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