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Posted By: Brian McQueen

Hey guys,

Thanks for the kind words. I was thrilled to have an opportunity to redesign our site and help give us an updated look. I think that once you all get used to things, you'll really have some fun with the "bells and whistles" this software has to offer. I'll run you through a few things briefly -

1. posting images to Net 54 was confusing to say the least AND, you couldn't even use the feature with Firefox! This new software will allow you to do it easily just by browsing for the file on your machine and then clicking "upload"

2. Keeps track of the number of the total # of posts each person has and displays that next to your user name.

3. Anybody can start a "poll" anytime they want. Very clean and efficient too! Over here, we basically had to create a seperate page for polls and place a link to it at the top of the page. When we ran out of room at the top, we had to stop doing polls essentially.

4. A new "reputation" system has been implemented. This allows you to giving somebody positive or negative "rep" just by clicking a button. You can also easily report offensive posts to Leon or myself.

5. of course, the "smilies" will be back and there will be more of them too. Personal avatars will be over here as well.

6. There will be a "quote" button in place allowing you to easily reference a point someone else just made as you start your own reply

7. Each member will get to have their own little bio page and will be able to private message others. Sort of like sending an instant message....

These are a few things. On the whole, it will be a lot of fun and the page will function better and be nicer to look at visually as well!