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[dvsDave]

Alright, here's a outline of some things to come. The stuff CB runs on is a commercial software (not open-source) called vBulletin, and the company that develops it just released a major upgrade. Details on the new capabilities here.

What this means is that myself and mbenonis will be upgrading the site in the next couple of weeks. One of the major discussions that we've had is whether or not to stay with using vbDrupal (the system that runs our news and article section). We feel that Drupal is much more than what we need and is much too time-intensive to maintain and operate. So we will be choosing a new front-end system to replace it when we upgrade.

Some of the other changes will be a new teacher's section. Details on this new important feature are still evolving day to day, so I'll have more details when we get closer to opening the teacher's section.

CB is also in need of aabout $280 to help us purchase two commercial improvements to the site. One is a photo gallery that is perfectly integrated with vBulletin. The other is a SEO package to make our URL's search engine friendly, instead of something like http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=23, it will be like http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/suggestions/

Please pm me if you or your company would like to sponsor these upgrades. We can add your logo and link to the photo gallery, and we can add your name and/or link in the site footer for sponsoring the URL friendly package.

The site may go down intermittently as new things are tested. Please don't be alarmed, we will try to post a warning about any testing at least a day in advance.

Sincerely,

-dvsDave

[dvsDave]

Alright, vBulletin 3.6 is installed. I reset all of the templates so you may notice some missing links for a little while. I'll post an thread in the bug reports to add a request for anything you notice missing.