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Welcome to aberdeen-music.com v3.0!


Neil

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The much sooner than expected move to aberdeen-music.com v3.0 is now in full swing. As you can see the forums have now all moved over to the vBulletin forum software and hopefully you will all take to it just as a duck in water. There should only be a few minor differences between these forums and the old ones as far as features go. But the biggest change is of course the look and feel of the web site - I hope you all think it now looks better than before!

The style for the web site is not 100% complete and no doubt there will need to be a fair few tweaks made to it yet to resolve any problems you may find. The logo at the top of the page is only a temporary logo and will be replaced quite soon with the new, permanent logo. And one by one the original features of the web site will make a welcome return soon. E.g. Web Cams, IRC Chat, Portal, Streaming Radio. And new features such as the Photo Gallery and Online Store are still in the pipeline as before.

But please remember, aberdeen-music.com is not out of the woods yet. The change of forum software is only an emergency short-term measure in order to try and reduce the server load that this web sites uses. This web site does still need to be moved to a dedicated web server soon and this is going to require a serious amount of money (est. 3000 a year).

Plans are now being made on how to raise this money and all suggestions and ideas are welcome. There will be a benefit event very soon and I intend on making a number of big changes to the way aberdeen-music.com is operated so that it starts to generate revenue of some kind. Unfortunately, this will mean that advertising will soon be placed on the web site albeit hopefully quite discretely. I certainly will try to avoid at all costs having large ad banners and pop-ups everywhere. But please realise that these changes are necessary in order to ensure the long term survival of this web site. Please check out the new Web Site Benefit Events Forum for more information regarding this!

In the mean time everyone please re-register on the forums if you have not already and get back posting! If you have any comments or suggestions then as before simply post your messages in the Comments & Suggestions Forum and if you run into any technical difficulties then the best way to make me aware of them is to post your messages in the Technical Problems Forum. Please be aware that you can make posts into this forum even if you have not re-registered or have not logged in.

For those of you that have a forum hosted here then please update the links on your web sites to point to the new direct URL for your forum. These are:

AUBL http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2

Dr Drakes http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=3

FudgeNet http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4

Alyssas Wish http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=11

Black Atom - http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=12

Deadloss Superstar http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=13

Hot Mangu http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14

Point of Origin http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=15

Quik http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=16

The X-Certs http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=17

We Become Less - http://forums.aberdeen-music.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=18

For those of you that do not have forums here but link to the web site anyway (and many thanks if you do!) then make sure you link to the URL: http://www.aberdeen-music.com

There will be further announcements as more things get sorted out. Also, can the moderators please PM or e-mail me once they have re-registered so they can be granted moderator access rights once more.

Thanks.

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