What was changed?
- The forum software was upgraded to the latest and greatest.
- The style of the site and the forum were updated to be more modern looking
- The top navigation was re-designed to be more compact - this is an attempt to eventually support a mobile version of the site (hopefully!)
- The top/header of the site now displays three ads instead of two!
- The site is now supporting a minimum width that is wider than before, keeping ultra-portable laptop users in mind with their smaller resolutions. The site is also expandable to fit the width of your browser!
What's new in this fancy new forum software?
- You can post images!!! You no longer have to link to images hosted elsewhere, simply attach them to your post. The forum will inform you if your image is too big (256kb) or too wide/tall (1024x1024) so please keep this in mind.
- You can now add people to a friends/foes list!
- You can subscribe to topics!
- The search functionality should be more intelligent!
- Knowing what you have/haven't read is no longer based on when you last visited the site, it is up to YOU to click the "Mark Topics Read" link on the forum index page OR read each topic.
Administrative Notes:
- Please PM me or reply to this topic if you experience any bugs or issues worth noting. The upgrades went through some rigorous testing on IE6, IE8, IE9, Firefox 7.x and Chrome 15 but that doesn't mean it's perfect.
- IE6 users may see a site that's generally somewhat ugly, but it should still function! IE6 has some styling limitations that I was constrained to.
What's Next?
- This phase of the upgrade is done. I will let things settle and perform minor fixes, but the site should not be offline for any other major updates any time soon.
- I'd love to clean up the Gallery and Video sections of the site!
Adam and I are thrilled to be able to expand the features CBoats offers, and provide the community with a reasonably attractive and hopefully still useful site! We know that with upgrades often comes confusion as links/functions are no longer in the regular places. I and the admins/moderators have been using the new site for a while now and I feel comfortable saying that you'll get used to it as we did. Just be patient when looking for something you know SHOULD be there.
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