New Applications

[High on Lullabies]

As most of you will now have noticed, the package change I mentioned in the Web Support Thread has now taken place and with it, the hosts have installed a large number of additional features which it entitles us to, which will be accessible via all the new tabs at the top of the forum.

'Gallery', 'Blogs' and 'Chat' are self-explanatory as we had these features before the forum was upgraded. The others which you probably won't recognise are:

'Pages' - This is an application which allows us to create a 'front page' for the forum, using the content posted on it. We could feature blog posts, artwork, obs, stories, gallery files, posts, etc to give people a flavour of the forum before they see it.

'Downloads' - This is a detailed file-sharing system, like Share and Share Alike but with much greater functionality.

'Store' - This is exactly what it sounds like, an online store where we can sell Forum branded merchandise! ...though it has to be said we probably won't use it for that. What it can hopefully be used for is a safe and fully integrated method for us to accept donations.

We won't necessarily use all of these new features, and we can always disable any we decide not to use. 'Pages' and 'Downloads' seem like the most likely candidates to be not used right now.

Anyway, the plan will be to activate these new applications one at a time as we get them setup correctly, starting with the Chat Room, which has already been done. Next will be the Blogs and then the Gallery, etc.

Enjoy the new features!

[High on Lullabies]

The blogs have now been restored. Enjoy!