Hello -

I started typing this up a week ago, then pressed the forward button on my keyboard and lost it from the browser - well, better late than never.

The vBulletin 3 upgrade went fairly smoothly, and thanks to my co-admins the remaining tasks are being trimmed off one by one. I’m including a reduced version of our do list to give you an idea of some of the work involved - like Iarnród Éireann and Fianna Fáil we have a lot done, but we’re getting there.

• Port over the main page and sections - main page done, chat done and upgraded - gathering done - menu done - usenet done - members done but need to fix header same as usenet - phpadsnew done - photopost not done
• Fix bugs with menu, e.g. menus not popping or popping to right, some items missing - done
• Download vbulletin 3.0.3 and install journal 1.2b - done
• Get the subscribed journals bit working again for the menu - works on menu - but not sure if there is a subscribe option in the current port
• Figure out why main page is so slow, fix bad links and login section - done
• Apply the journal hack’s template, phrase and database updates again - it’s just time consuming - done
• Install some skins, working on a black one at the moment - done, still needs some tweaking
• Matching of style, menu and ad colours and design of title images with boards.ie logo - title images done
• Stars using user rankings system in vbulletin - done
• Allow mods to edit access masks - done, ecksor rocks
• Remove five journals (journalids 6714, 1535, 5731, 6202, 10164) - disabled
• Install php with curl (for paypal payments) - done
• Create a paypal account for subscriber payments - done
• Buy the latest version of photopost, install photopost and test it out as regards integration with vbulletin - bought, ecksor is working on it
• Add paid subscriptions for existing subscribed users, moderators, community moderators (if subscription is still valid) - to do
• Hack to create e-mail for those who pay for subscriptions and to allow creation of a photopost album - to do
• Arrange ads with phpadsnew - to do

Today, I added three new images for the White, Classic and Grey skins. My next task will be to tidy some of the images on the Cloud skin (which I based on the old vB2 skin and images from forumimages.com).

As I’ve said in a previous post, community support has been very much appreciated. Thank you all.