Merry Christmas to Colt Vista and sibling owners worldwide! You've got a real message board now. I'm sure there will be bugs and kinks as we get started but I believe I have everything configured pretty decent. Avoiding spammers and bots is going to be my primary concern so you guys don't worry about all that and just post threads, ask questions, and enjoy yourselves!

I'm trying to archive up some tech and how-to content over the next few days so I can create articles and troubleshooting information on the main part of the site here. The home page will change a bit while I do that but it'll always be up if I can help it. My next major forum project is adding smileys and emoticons and offering additional themes for those of you not keen on plain white and blue. And yes, there will be low-fi themes, at least two so far, and some will be primarily white and some primarily black.

If you're having any trouble registering, please let me know at occupantiliedindustries [at] yahoo [dot] com

I have phpBB forum software installed and I was having quite a bit of trouble getting it to run but now it's up and moving. I will post an update on this homepage as soon as it's ready for new user registrations!

It cost me about $12 to get the domain for a year and about $9 to get the hosting for a month. These costs will come down once I sign onto longer hosting packages, and I'm expecting ongoing costs of less than $7 a month until it gets too big. By then I'm sure we can sell some bumper stickers. Or I'll just pay for it. My penance for not being a Vista owner for the last 9 years!

I plan to create a gallery for your photos. I plan to create a news area where other small utility wagon news can be had along with new product announcements when new parts are developed. I plan to create a tech archive where you can look up good info either from past Yahoo Group postings, from the web, from other sources, or from how-to articles written by forum members. So keep that good information coming. More to come soon. I just hope I can keep this going like I did the Yahoo group for so long. Not killing that either but I'm hoping this board will get most of the traffic from here on out.

Please submit any comments, complaints, suggestions, or wishlist items to me using occupantiliedindustries [at] yahoo [dot] com