Stellar Attraction Discussion Forum - The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade

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The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade
5^th Jul, 2008 at 9:40pm

All,

And now the good news ... Wink

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 !!

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Heracleum Mantegazziani Stellar DJ Offline Posts: 1,641 Latitude 33°N/Longitude 117°W Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #1 - 6^th 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) P.S. Nice Zao track by the way
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huntr_22 Watcher Of The Skies Offline Posts: 943 France Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #2 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 1:37am Superb new forum features D!!And of course worth while for the wait! Also the new website is quicker!
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #3 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 1:46am Thanks guys, pleased to hear you approve. Trust me when I say, a lot of work has been going on this end ...
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danrok Stellar Moderator Offline Prog on... Posts: 403 GB Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #4 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 2:06am Well done D!
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #5 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 2:11am Cheers mate !!
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Dan Joy Watcher Of The Skies Offline turn on, tune in, comment profusely Posts: 805 Falls Church VA Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #6 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 8:56am So glad it's back up & running & it all looks great!
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Dan Joy Watcher Of The Skies Offline turn on, tune in, comment profusely Posts: 805 Falls Church VA Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #7 - 6^th 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"!
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #8 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 4:56pm Thanks Dan !! Love the pic - good stuff.
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ino_100 Harold The Barrel Offline Namaste Posts: 1,255 Montréal, Québec Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #9 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 6:01pm Back online YESSSS Good job Dee, very good looking! Thanks Dee!
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #10 - 6^th 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. Enjoy the new look and new features !!
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plodder Starship Trooper Offline Posts: 167 Sunny Cardiff Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #11 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 8:46pm Croeso nol! (Welcome back) Thanks for all your hard work getting us back up and running. Cheers Darran
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #12 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 8:54pm Cheers mate !! Enjoy.
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Tux Stellar Associate Offline Posts: 214 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #13 - 6^th 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!
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: The New Website Server and Forum Upgrade Reply #14 - 6^th Jul, 2008 at 9:34pm Thanks Tux !! Indeed, it's good to have the forum online again.
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