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Message started by ProgMaster on 5th Jul, 2008 at 9:40pm

Title: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 5th Jul, 2008 at 9:40pm
All,

And now the good news ... ;)

The website and discussion forum is now residing on a dedicated, private server with far more processor capacity, memory, bandwidth and components all running on the very latest, stable versions. This will go an extremely long way to support the growth and future development of the S.A. experience and of course, result in much faster and stable use.

Also, the discussion forum has been upgraded and is now running on the very latest version - 2.2.2. As you've no doubt already noticed, all of the membership details, topics, threads and posts are completely intact and functioning under the new version. There really is a huge amount of new features, enhancements and background, administrative elements. A lot of these new features will be apparent and hopefully easy to use but of course, all of the online help guide information has been upgraded, providing detailed information as to what is new in this very latest release.

It hasn't been as easy to upgrade to this new version as in the past, with a great deal of manual configuration and tweaking needing to be done myself to ensure that the forum is functioning as it should. But I'm delighted with the results thus far and am still finding my own way around some of the new features.

As you've also no doubt noticed, the default template has changed. There are a couple of cosmetic amendments that I'm going to be making shortly - to enable certain lines of text to appear clearer than they currently do, as an example but on the whole, I personally like it. Also, there are several other 'skins' to choose from if you're not personally happy with the default 'black look'. Simply visit (the new and expanded !!) User Control Panel, go to 'Profile > Options' and choose an alternative theme from the drop down list. Again, there may be a little cosmetic tweaking needed but all of the themes that I have loaded are fully functional and working.

Oh yes, the 'Media' tag now works across the entire forum and not just in the Media Centre so feel free to embed 'YouTube' clips and the like in any given post you make. In saying this, I will be keeping the Media Centre well and truly open and plan some further enhancements for this section soon.

There are many other, smaller enhancements that have been made (extra Avatars spring to mind), so feel free to ask away - either by PM'ing me personally, replying to this thread or starting a new thread within the Ask The Admin section.


Enjoy !!

D

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Heracleum Mantegazziani on 6th Jul, 2008 at 1:31am
..and we're finally up! Looking good Darran. Worth the wait. Will be exploring all the new features..nice look!
-Hm (Don) [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

P.S. Nice Zao track by the way

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by huntr_22 on 6th Jul, 2008 at 1:37am
Superb new forum features D!!And of course worth while for the wait!


Also the new website is quicker!


8-)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 1:46am
Thanks guys, pleased to hear you approve. 8-)

Trust me when I say, a lot of work has been going on this end ... ::)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by danrok on 6th Jul, 2008 at 2:06am
Well done D!
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Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 2:11am
Cheers mate !! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Dan_Joy on 6th Jul, 2008 at 8:56am
So glad it's back up & running & it all looks great! :)
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Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Dan_Joy on 6th Jul, 2008 at 8:57am
sorry the picture's so huge but it's a worthy one--a detail of the Chamberlin used for the song "Mac the Knife"!

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 4:56pm
Thanks Dan !!

Love the pic - good stuff. 8-)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ino_100 on 6th Jul, 2008 at 6:01pm
Back online YESSSS

Good job Dee, very good looking!

Thanks Dee!

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 6:24pm
Like I've said, Max - it's taken a lot of work to upgrade everything - the forum in particular but I'm sure you'll all agree, it's been worth it. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Enjoy the new look and new features !! 8-)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by plodder on 6th Jul, 2008 at 8:46pm
Croeso nol! (Welcome back)

Thanks for all your hard work getting us back up and running.

Cheers Darran [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 8:54pm
Cheers mate !! 8-)

Enjoy.

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Tux on 6th Jul, 2008 at 9:32pm
Joepieeeeee! The forum is back up!
Thanks! Now I can give my praise again.

Hope you had time to enjoy the music between the upgrade processes!

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by ProgMaster on 6th Jul, 2008 at 9:34pm
Thanks Tux !!

Indeed, it's good to have the forum online again. 8-)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by bostonba63 on 8th Jul, 2008 at 10:26pm
D;

Excellent work and thank you once again for all you do and for SA;  the best music on the Web.

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Janey on 8th Jul, 2008 at 10:48pm
Yay!


Looks great D!! :-*

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Dan_Joy on 11th Jul, 2008 at 4:34am
Janey, that's a pretty awesome avatar!
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Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by huntr_22 on 17th Jul, 2008 at 11:56pm
I agree Dan!A very cool Avatar!



8-)

Title: Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
Post by Dan_Joy on 18th Jul, 2008 at 8:11am
yours is pretty cool too, huntr !

below, some modular synths at analogue haven

www.analoguehaven.com
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