It seems the folks at IPS suprised us again with a new product called CSS aka Community Content System.
The announcement can be found here: http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/285632-introducing-community-content-system

The features are pretty interesting with a complete CMS system, but not much has been revealed, we will just have to wait for more information about the product.

What I fear from IPS  is that they will pull another ip.nexus trick and not release it, even IPB 3.0 is being delayed. What I noticed on IPB 3.0 is that there are loads more to be done to the code, there is missing features and useless bits and bobs around the code that goes to dead ends.

While browsing a few referal links through my mint stats application, I noticed that some people are running BOTH MSEO 0.4.1 and 1.0.0 Beta 3. Which is troubling me quite a lot that it makes me realise that I need to include an uninstaller for MSEO 0.4.1 asap WITHIN MSEO 1.0.0. 

Even though I wrote in the instruction html file that you need to remove the old edits, it seems that a lot of people are finding it hard to read my documentation. Well…. I am partly to blame as I didn’t have enough time focusing on the documentation of the application.

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First impression on converting MSEO (IPBSEO) to Invision Power Board 3

Moderately easy, I have been playing around with the sytem for around 3-4 hours today and I was pretty impressed with the application folder system. It is quite nifty and powerful. The installation system and development tools are a true helper while importing the settings.

So far I have been able to get the acronymiser and secure redirects working with only 2 file edits. This means good news and I could get a working version within the first or second week of June.

For the past few days/weeks I have worked quite hard on a stable version of MinervaSEO and the sitemap and I think I will go back to my hiding hole and continue development of new features for Mseo and the sitemap.

But before I go I will be releasing a final release of MSEO around the weekend and nothing major will appear until mid June time. (as long as my problems with immigration get solved). I will be visiting the forums regularly to check for any issues arising and sort sitemap payments.

I have a few ideas for upcoming projects but I won’t say anymore for now, I just want MSEO to become a stable version for general public release. But what I can tell you is that there will be an update before the final version of 1.0.0 goes public to include .htaccess and robots.txt management within the admincp.

IPB3.x.x

Around the end of June I should have converted all my mods to IPB 3.x.x and everything should be working fluidly by then.

Hi all, in the view that IPB 3 is going to be released soon a few guides will be posted up on this blog to help new and advance users to understand the new structure and interface.

So for the first in the series I have created a quick overview of the skinning system of IPB 3.x.x. This should help new users to get familiar with the interface.
As this is my first full production screencast I would like some review on how to make it better.

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A recent contest postsed on the IPS forum has started a lot of excitment throughout the design community of IPS. Read the rest of this entry »