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We have been working hard on some new features that will be released very soon. Most of our updates lately has been small fixes, database improvements, etc.
There are a number of great feature improvements we have in the pipe slated for release over the next few weeks.
These improvements include;
- New navigation sub menus, you will be able to have menus under other links in your navigation.
- Completion of theme packaging that will allow you to share your themes and should encourage more experienced designers to create more themes for our websites.
- Rewrite of the member profile system. This will be released towards the end of next month and is designed to give site owners much more control over moderation of profiles, profiles will no longer be global. Some new improvements include; multipage ability, default profile designer, ability to add your own custom profile elements, profile moderation, ability to send the buddy list naming schemes, and much more.
After those are released we will be working on adding new capability to the forums, and implementing a new custom database system that will allow you to create your own custom lists, data collection features, etc.
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As of January 23rd we will be re-launching the option to allow for free advertisement supported websites, all website trials will be converted to free ad supported websites. As many of you are aware we eliminated the free website option last year due to problems with offering free websites and everything we were trying to include with them in additional to cash flow issues because advertisements on websites would not support our operational demands.
Anyone can create a free ad supported website with some changes from when we used to offer free websites as a norm.
Some of the new limitations on the free sites will include;
- Limitations on the number of pages, and page elements.
- 2 Total Ads per page plus site sponsors
- New footer website bar on all free websites will feature an 1 advertisement of our 2 page advertisements and a new noticeable and easy to use "report this site" option so we can be notified when people seek to use our sites for abuse, along with other help full tools designed for site visitor usage.
- Free websites will be deleted regularly if there is no user logins in a 30 day period. (1 Email notice will be sent before site deletion takes place.)
- Free sites will run separate from people that upgrade thus maintaining page load times and site speed for our paying customers.
- No support will be included for free accounts other then members helping members in our public forums, full support by our team will be reserved for pay customers via phone, support tickets and live chat.
With the free ad-supported plan we rely on a site bringing a great deal of traffic to pay for the hosting expense of keeping the site online. For this reason we have strict deletion criteria; so that if a free website drops in visits and logins over any given month it will be purged from the system. With our paid plans this is not the case and you never have to worry about your site and content being deleted.
Everything has to be paid for in some way. The way that we pay for the free sites to be hosted is through advertising and advertising requires lots of eyeballs. Don't want ads on your site? Get one of the paid plans.
These new limitations help us avoid our past pitfalls with offering free before, but we really depend on people upgrading to our premium services to maintain the level of quality and value we have always offered to our customers.
By making this change will allows us to still offer a great value to those that will not or can not pay for a website while giving additional value to those that wish to upgrade.
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From our team, we wish you all a happy and safe new year. May next year be better then the last.
Thank you for growing with us this past year!
Happy New Year!!
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With this latest update we have addressed several bugs including an issue with quoting still being available in locked forum threads. Now when you click on the latest reply links in the forums it will take you to the last page.
One of the bigger changes we have made in the update is some initial preparation for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8. The change we have implemented adds a doc type to the main pages of your site to allow for standards compliant code. This can cause some differences in how the sites display now. Although we believe we have corrected most of the places where the sites were not using the correct coding, please let us know if you see any element or component on the site that is not displaying properly.
So you know, some older scripts may not be standards compliant, but if you let us know about one not working we can check it out and let you know for sure. If you do run into an issue like that or some styling problems please let us know through support tickets not comments here.
Thank you for your help as we make this transition and have a happy new year!
Coming in the next few weeks:
- Theme Packaging (it's almost ready)
- Multi Level Navigation
- Easier Main Site Management Controls for Systems and Elements
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Hello everyone, we want to wish you a Happy Holiday and a Merry Christmas! We thank you for joining us and hope you have a great holiday with the ones you love.
During the holiday season we like to give our staff additional time with their own family and friends. As such our holiday office hours are as follows:
- December 22nd - 23rd 9am until 5pm EDT
- Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- December 26th 9am until 5pm EDT
- Closed December 27th and on Sunday as normal.
- From December 29th until January 3rd 9am until 5pm.
We resume our normal office hours after January 5th 2009. As normal, we will monitor our network 24 hours a day 7 days a week for critical issues. Help with support will be limited from now until January 5th.
We are looking forward to bringing some major changes this New Year that everyone can really look forward to!
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