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 »

Invision Power Board 3.0.0 Beta 5 Released

Invision Power Board 3.0.0 Beta 5

Invision Power has now just released their latest Beta for IPB 3.0.0.

To download go to the client area on IPS’s website. Unfortanetly there is no details of the fixed bug in the post but you can find it through the bug tracker.

Remember this is only a beta of the software and you shouldn’t run this on your main (live) board.

While going about a few forums lately I have realised that a lot of forums have search flood enabled. That annoyed me quite a lot as I was looking for something quite important.

Then a question poped-up in my mind: “Why do we need to have search flood?” Does Google have that?

I will answer both yes & no as there are advantages and disadvantages to having search flood on a forum enabled. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve had a first look at the new IPB 3.0.0 from Invision Power. I must say the new software is robust and powerful. The installation was very long, approximately around 4min. That was done locally on my machine therefore very fast, but if that was installed on a server it might take some time. (BTW i have an intel Quad Core running at 2.6ghz, so it should be running fast )

I really like that IPB now includes hooks, it should now allow developers to deploy their mods much faster. But I could see this harming the software after a while. Too much hooks can and will affect the stability, security and the speed of the board. That doesn’t mean its bad, we just have to use it in moderation.

I have been able to figure out how it work so far. When the source code is available I will be able to understand it and be able to post a guide on my blog on how to create and use the hook system.

For the moment I am going to start writing a skinning guide for IPB 3.x.x and I will post it as soon as I can.

A detailed review will be posted soon.

Following some recent news on IPB’s website I have decided that I may stop MinervaSEO as there is no point to compete against an already packed SEO system for IPB which works much better than Mseo.

What I am going to do is develop and separate the tag tool and maybe the meta editor. This may take a while, maybe a few weeks.

I will also try to create a conversion tool so that you don’t lose your URL’s page rank.

Sorry I have been inactive lately but there have been dealing with things that screwed my life over. I have lost my job, I am having problems with Home Office regarding my Visa, my mum is sick, my dad is depressed, I lost the only and good relationship I ever had and all because of the problem with my Visa and my solicitor.

According to some new solicitors it wasn’t suppose to be like that, I was suppose to get my citizenship in the UK but because the form was filled in a certain way and the solicitor that dealt with the appeal didn’t do well, my life has changed dramatically to the worst. I’m just barely hanging there.

I am sorry if I wasn’t able to do much since last year but I have been trying to deal with this and a lot with my life since April last year. My site is pretty much inactive and I have been blogging my anger and feelings on a free WP site. But I think I’ll merge it to this one in time and carry on posting here.

After recent replies on my guide on how to edit skin template for IPB here is a section that I felt I missed out for new comers who wants to edit their logo.

There are 2 ways, the easy way and the hard way. Both are useful at their own circumstances.

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