LYM: New and Improved
Monday, January 25th, 2010If you just couldn’t wait until today to visit the new and improved forum and gallery, you were not alone! After a couple intense days of tweaking, crossing my fingers, scouring help forums, drinking gallons of coffee, and even a little praying, our site is back up and running at full throttle.

I hope you’ll take some time to look around and play with the new features. There are too many to mention now, but here are the biggest changes you’ll want to be aware of …
• The Community Forum is entirely new and has a new URL. You now access the forum at http://logyourmemory.com/forum. If you had the old forum bookmarked, please take a minute to re-bookmark it at the new address.
• The user profiles for the Blog, Forum, Layout Gallery and Chat Room are all now integrated. That means you just need to register once to be a registered member in all four places. You also need to only sign in once to get full access, with the exception of the chat room which requires a sign in every time you enter. If you are already a registered member, you do not need to re-register. You will need to sign in the first time you visit, however, even if you were previously signed in “forever.” All registrations and sign-ins for the blog, forum, gallery & chat room begin from the forum home page. One note – our on-site store is still a separate system and requires it’s own registration & log-in.
• The Community Forum is now truly the heart of the Log Your Memory Web site. The blog will continue to be located at LogYourMemory.com because it is a bit complicated to change things around at this point. But I hope most will make the Forum your first stop each day. Once you visit, you’ll see it’s now the hub of activity. Features include…
- Central management of all registration, sign-in, user profile and messaging activities.
- A sneak peek at the latest additions to the Layout Gallery.
- An introduction to the latest Blog update, with links back to the full post.
- A look at the most recently added forum threads, followed by the forum as a whole.
- A list of the week’s “hot topics.”
- A snapshot of how many users are online throughout our site at any given moment, plus a list of everyone currently chatting in the Chat Room.
- Easy access to current site announcements and contest reminders.
- A list of today’s birthdays for registered users who have provided that information via their profile.
- And more … updates & changes will continue as we grow and change!
• Our new forum has tons of features we didn’t have before. This is particularly true in the area of customizing your profile, sending messages, connecting with others, starting and participating in groups, and more. For now, take some time to play around and discover the new features on your own.
• You will notice your signature and profile photos need some tweaking. That’s one of the downfalls of moving the forum across cyberspace. But hopefully the improvement will be well worth the inconvenience. One thing to note – you no longer need to upload your profile photo to our layout gallery. You can now upload your photo directly from your computer. I strongly suggest you upload your profile photo first, then use that same image for your avatar. Your profile is customized through the User CP tab in the navigation bar at the top of the forum.

• We now have a brand new Chat Room! Our new chat room has tons of features we didn’t have before, many of which you can customize to suit your own preferences. Simply sign in using your regular username & password, then choose a room and start chatting! We’ll also start holding more regular scheduled chats, so watch for a poll very soon where you can vote your preference for day and time.
• We also have a new Chat Box. This is a box at the very top of the forum home page where you can leave a quick message for other visitors or simply say you stopped by!
• Be prepared to find an occasional broken link or formatting snafu. The process of importing information for hundreds of users and thousands of threads into a new forum and system is a bit touchy, to say the least. As a result, it’s pretty much inevitable that there will be a few things that don’t transition perfectly. Please be patient with these things if you find them … and if they seem important enough to fix, drop me a line and I’ll do my best to take care of them.
• More changes planned as time permits. I am constantly on the look-out for new features that will enhance your time on our site, so you can expect more tweaking as we go along. Among the items on my list are mini-overhauls of the blog and store to help them coordinate better with the rest of the site.
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