AVO site BLOG

2/5/2006

• Added: Calendar of Events

1/30/2006

• Added: Ability to sort Private messages by senders and recipients.

12/26/2005

• Added: Began work on the new AVO garage. Mods feature added.

11/18/2005

• Changed: Latest posts layout on home page. Added forum name and link. Removed separate for sale posts.

7/27/2005

• Added: First additional AVO admins; 420Greg, OviedoAV and WarWagon
• Added: Icons next to recent posts on home page depicting News, Moderator and restricted posts

5/3/2005

• Added: Number of members in shout box displayed on page headers

4/12/2005

• Added: AVO store featured items displayed on pages

3/23/2005

• Added: Latest For Sale/Wanted posts on home page

3/17/2005

• Added: Member's posts are highlighted and avatar changed on their birthday

3/13/2005

• Added: Number and list of members visitng each day
• Added: Today and tomorrow members birthdays

3/12/2005

• Changed: Finally optimized forum code for search engines, all topic titles now in header tags.

2/28/2005

• Added: Posts now count toward AVO Points
• Added: Members with highest posts and most AVO points displayed on home page

2/25/2005

• Added: Framed version of site allows Shoutbox in top frame
• Added: Most viewed photo on home page

1/11/2005

• Added: Personal galleries for supporting members

1/6/2005

• Added: Place member's city and state under search results.
• Changed: Posts now show member's city/state rather than just country.

1/30/2005

• Changed: New AVO site logo

11/21/2004

• Added: Active Users page now displays link to page visitor is viewing

11/18/2004

• Fixed: Nested loops in forum jump dropdown caused tremendous page load delays

11/17/2004

• Added: Ability to select any photo from your galleries when posting to the forum

11/16/2004

• Added: Member numbers

11/15/2004

• Added: ShoutBox now hyperlinks each user's name to their profile
• Added: Site Partnership
• Added: Supporting Membership

11/10/2004

• Added: AVO Playground, online games
• Fixed: Began optimizing forum code to prevent slow load times

11/08/2004

• Added: Ability for guests to post on the ShoutBox!
• Fixed: Vehicle desriptions were not showing up when editing galleries

11/05/2004

• Added: AVOwners forums

11/01/2004

• Added: Special galleries, ability for members to contribute to them

10/28/2004

• Changed: Gallery photos layout to avoid running off making page bigger than screen
• Changed: Thumbs reduced from 95 to 75px height, Photos increased from 550 to 650px width
• Added: link on ShoutBox to send viewed page to other ShoutBox users
• Changed: Members will be auto-logged on to the ShoutBox, no more nicks to be entered

10/24/2004

• Added: Weekly Poll

10/23/2004

• Added: IDC shopping cart system

10/21/2004

• Fixed: Entries with custom color selected were not showing the custom color

10/20/2004

• Added: Ability for members to opt-out of special mailings

10/19/2004

• Added: Refer-a-Friend function
• Added: Search results can now be ordered by column criteria
• Added: List of members online

10/16/2004

• Changed: search results ordered by specific category
• Added: members ability to delete galleries

10/15/2004

• Changed: front page list of galleries, better organized and numbered

10/14/2004

• Added: number of pics count for each member's gallery
• Added: link back to member's profile from individual photo view

10/13/2004

• Released site from beta mode
• Fixed: email validation to text-only - some mail clients misread code
• Fixed: validation schema - was showing member approved to log on before validation complete
• Fixed: front page slideshow - was choking on some photo comments
• Fixed: was possible to add blank MOD gallery type
• Added: Contact page with email form
• Added: Countries outside US will now show when displaying - instead of "Outside U.S.'
• Added: validation to adding new avalanche - prevents blank fields
• Added: forgotten password retrieval form