So...what's all the hype?

[$cirisme]

As some of you are aware we have really been talking about a major forum software upgrade....vBulletin 3.0.0.

Some of the reasons we have for upgrading are:
A much better security model
Much faster and more scalable
Easier to maintain and modify
Most of all... some awesome new features!

And that's just the vanilla vBulletin... that doesn't count all the additions we've put so much time and effort into the last multiple months :fight:

With the forum upgrade will also come a completely rewritten photo gallery... I wrote this baby from the ground up and if I do say so myself...it is beautiful. :duh:

Some of the great new features you will see with our upgrade are:
Multiple attachments per post with automatic thumbnailing.

This makes it much easier to include multiple images in your post, and they are automatically resized to make them dialup friendly, and so that the pages don't get too wide and hard to read.

WYSIWYG editor

The What You See Is What You Get editor allows you to format your posts like you would using a word processor like Microsoft Word.(requires a recent version of IE or Mozilla)

Improved calendar... too many improvements to mention

Threaded mode.... one of our most frequently requested features

The new Greek and Hebrew tags will make their debut, as well as some other awesome new bbcode.... including a vastly improved column tag.

Yxboom has been working hard on a very beutiful new design. It looks awesome and it's not even completely done yet :duh:

There are far too many changes to list them all... as well as some secrets that we want you to surprise you with :wink:...but the most important is that this is incredibly fast. It uses much fewer resources than our current version of vBulletin which will allow us to stay on hardware longer before having to upgrade, which makes TW cheaper to operate and eliminates most of our moving downtime.

And can you believe this is all FREE? :teeth:

Unfortuneatly, we will have to be down for a time in order to get all this accomplished. We anticipate that this downtime will hopefully be no longer than an hour or two... but we will upgrade well enough in advance of our anniversary so that the festivities are not interrupted!

Thanks for your patience... and we all look forward to the new TW built from the ground up. :smile:

[Xmansmommy]

Whooooooooohoooooooooooo you got me all excited to see the unveiling of the new TW! :joy: Man you guys ROCK! :thumb: :thumb:

[NSMinistries]

:shocked: WoW :cheers: :highfive: :joy: :yipee: :thumb:

[dizzle]

Man, even I am pretty excited and I have seen sneak peeks of most of this stuff!!!!!

[NSMinistries]

Today @ 11:09 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=361962#post361962)
Dee Dee Warren:

Man, even I am pretty excited and I have seen sneak peeks of most of this stuff!!!!!



Oh sure rub it in...:lol:

[dizzle]

This is going to be way cooolllll!!!

You guys' draw is going to drop I assure you.

Remember the "shock" when you first saw our "top postbit"????? Which now everyone is used to and loves...... well the new look is very drastic. I am sure those who fear change will hate it temporarily, but those who love new stuff will love it.

And the Internet Infidels will really complain about Gaudy Ole TWeb.

[Xmansmommy]

Dee Dee Warren:

This is going to be way cooolllll!!!

You guys' draw is going to drop I assure you.

:shifty:

[$cirisme]

The top postbit is the default design in vanilla vBulletin 3 :teeth:

[John Reece]

This will happen, when?

[$cirisme]

John Reece:

This will happen, when?

Right before the weekend of our anniversary.... don't have an exact date as it will depend on how the tests go...

[dizzle]

What are all the goodies we are doing for the anniversary?

[$cirisme]

Check the mailer... :teeth:

[dizzle]

Sigh. I wrote the mailer.

[$cirisme]

So you should know what we're doing :eh:

[Jaltus]

Today @ 01:00 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=362053#post362053)
Dee Dee Warren:

Sigh. I wrote the mailer.

Then you really should know about those festivities. Good grief, have you no memory, woman?

[dizzle]

Sigh. This was for the benefit of the slackers who don't read the mailer after the ocuntless hours of my toil that goes into it.

And to keep the hype up.

[$cirisme]

Jaltus:

Then you really should know about those festivities. Good grief, have you no memory, woman?

:rofl:

[dizzle]

Today @ 02:04 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=362056#post362056)
Jaltus:



Then you really should know about those festivities. Good grief, have you no memory, woman?

Who are you again?

[dizzle]

Today @ 11:36 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=361930#post361930)
cirisme:

As some of you are aware we have really been talking about a major forum software upgrade....vBulletin 3.0.0.

Some of the reasons we have for upgrading are:
A much better security model
Much faster and more scalable
Easier to maintain and modify
Most of all... some awesome new features!

And that's just the vanilla vBulletin... that doesn't count all the additions we've put so much time and effort into the last multiple months :fight:

With the forum upgrade will also come a completely rewritten photo gallery... I wrote this baby from the ground up and if I do say so myself...it is beautiful. :duh:

Some of the great new features you will see with our upgrade are:
Multiple attachments per post with automatic thumbnailing.

This makes it much easier to include multiple images in your post, and they are automatically resized to make them dialup friendly, and so that the pages don't get too wide and hard to read.

WYSIWYG editor

The What You See Is What You Get editor allows you to format your posts like you would using a word processor like Microsoft Word.(requires a recent version of IE or Mozilla)

Improved calendar... too many improvements to mention

Threaded mode.... one of our most frequently requested features

The new Greek and Hebrew tags will make their debut, as well as some other awesome new bbcode.... including a vastly improved column tag.

Yxboom has been working hard on a very beutiful new design. It looks awesome and it's not even completely done yet :duh:

There are far too many changes to list them all... as well as some secrets that we want you to surprise you with :wink:...but the most important is that this is incredibly fast. It uses much fewer resources than our current version of vBulletin which will allow us to stay on hardware longer before having to upgrade, which makes TW cheaper to operate and eliminates most of our moving downtime.

And can you believe this is all FREE? :teeth:

Unfortuneatly, we will have to be down for a time in order to get all this accomplished. We anticipate that this downtime will hopefully be no longer than an hour or two... but we will upgrade well enough in advance of our anniversary so that the festivities are not interrupted!

Thanks for your patience... and we all look forward to the new TW built from the ground up. :smile:

[NSMinistries]

:teeth: I can't wait...

[$cirisme]

I about wet myself when I saw that there are 42 steps to upgrading from the current version to vb3. :shocked:

And that doesn't count all my modifications :hrm:

[NSMinistries]

Today @ 06:28 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=362380#post362380)
cirisme:

I about wet myself when I saw that there are 42 steps to upgrading from the current version to vb3. :shocked:

And that doesn't count all my modifications :hrm:

:lmbo: :rofl: :lmbo:

[$cirisme]

Oh, and there will be atleast 7 other upgrades I will run after that *sigh*

I will be owed some major pearls after we are done with this :shifty:

[yxboom]

cirisme:

The top postbit is the default design in vanilla vBulletin 3 :teeth:

Yumm....Vanilla :teeth:

[dizzle]

:bump:

[dizzle]

So What's Up ahead? - THEOLOGYWEB'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!!

On the weekend of Saturday January 24th through Monday January 26th, we will be celebrating our One Year Anniversary (cheers are heard from the crowd - limited tomato activity) - with lots and lots of fun activities and surprises..... such as

Triple Spam and Anti-Spam points as well as double pearls

Gifts of pearls from the TWeb princess Mononoke to everyone who visits during our celebration

The opportunity for a random member who posts at least five times during that period to win a Special Anniversary T-Shirt

A sale on all TWeb merchandise in our Cafe Press Store (http://www.cafeshops.com/theologyweb) at our cost - the perfect time to pick up those TWeb droors (http://www.cafeshops.com/theologyweb.5215983) or a Great Tribulation t-shirt (http://www.cafeshops.com/theologyweb.7483973)

The announcement of the Natural Spirit Ministries Writing Contest (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15361) winner and...>

THE UNVEILING OF OUR SUAVE NEW LOOK AND OUR SOFTWARE UPGRADE


This upgrade will result in some immediate new features as well as the capability for us to continue to be the most innovative theology site on the Net, and as always built from the ground up. :thumb:

[dizzle]

:bump:

[Xavier]

:bump:

[dizzle]

:bump:

[John Reece]

With regard Hebrew and Greek words, will the upgrade affect posts that are in archieves?

[dizzle]

Hmm good question.....

[dizzle]

John, have you been able to try them out yet?

[John Reece]

I logged on to the new site last week and did my signature. The Hebrew worked the first try, but I had to keep working a while to get the Greek to work. I don't remember how I did it. That's what made me wonder if posts in archives would lose Greek or Hebrew fonts the way Hebrew quotes do now.

[dizzle]

Hmm maybe PM AJ?

[dizzle]

01-03-2004 @ 11:36 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=361930#post361930)
cirisme:

As some of you are aware we have really been talking about a major forum software upgrade....vBulletin 3.0.0.

Some of the reasons we have for upgrading are:
A much better security model
Much faster and more scalable
Easier to maintain and modify
Most of all... some awesome new features!

And that's just the vanilla vBulletin... that doesn't count all the additions we've put so much time and effort into the last multiple months :fight:

With the forum upgrade will also come a completely rewritten photo gallery... I wrote this baby from the ground up and if I do say so myself...it is beautiful. :duh:

Some of the great new features you will see with our upgrade are:
Multiple attachments per post with automatic thumbnailing.

This makes it much easier to include multiple images in your post, and they are automatically resized to make them dialup friendly, and so that the pages don't get too wide and hard to read.

WYSIWYG editor

The What You See Is What You Get editor allows you to format your posts like you would using a word processor like Microsoft Word.(requires a recent version of IE or Mozilla)

Improved calendar... too many improvements to mention

Threaded mode.... one of our most frequently requested features

The new Greek and Hebrew tags will make their debut, as well as some other awesome new bbcode.... including a vastly improved column tag.

Yxboom has been working hard on a very beutiful new design. It looks awesome and it's not even completely done yet :duh:

There are far too many changes to list them all... as well as some secrets that we want you to surprise you with :wink:...but the most important is that this is incredibly fast. It uses much fewer resources than our current version of vBulletin which will allow us to stay on hardware longer before having to upgrade, which makes TW cheaper to operate and eliminates most of our moving downtime.

And can you believe this is all FREE? :teeth:

Unfortuneatly, we will have to be down for a time in order to get all this accomplished. We anticipate that this downtime will hopefully be no longer than an hour or two... but we will upgrade well enough in advance of our anniversary so that the festivities are not interrupted!

Thanks for your patience... and we all look forward to the new TW built from the ground up. :smile:

[dizzle]

And remember we do not have a subscription requirement for these great features (and the new shoutbox is the bomb!) so please consider becoming a TWeb contributor today, it's only $5 a month, and helps defray our costs.

[Xavier]

Let me add my voice to DD's here, and say that if you really enjoy TWeb: Please keep financial support of this ministry in your thoughts and prayers.

Yours,
Xavier

:xav:

[dizzle]

Thanks Xavier. Right now, the only funding for the site does come from the personal funds of the owners about 70-80 percent of the costs, and the remainder from contributors. We are exploring others way to generate funding for there is so much more we could do. Also please remember that for the first year so far, the three owners have poured unbelievable amounts of time and donation of personal abilities and talents in getting this up and where it is at today. If the site as a business had to pay for such services, well it just wouldn't happen. So please if you can, support this endeavor.

[$cirisme]

John Reece:

With regard Hebrew and Greek words, will the upgrade affect posts that are in archieves?

Greek tags are based exactly on transliteration as they are now. There currently are no Hebrew tags, so that is unaffected.

[John Reece]

Today @ 06:30 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=372687#post372687)
cirisme:

Greek tags are based exactly on transliteration as they are now. There currently are no Hebrew tags, so that is unaffected.

:thumb:

[$cirisme]

BTW, for those wondering what the big deal is with the new Greek tags since apparently nothing has changed, currently the Greek tags require a certain font to be installed on your computer. If your computer doesn't have that font(mine doesn't) you don't see the greek characters.

This uses unicode, which is almost universally accepted, to display the Greek letters. This results in almost total platform independence.

[$cirisme]

bumpity :smile:

[dizzle]

:bump:

[John Reece]

01-11-2004 @ 07:06 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=372734#post372734)
cirisme:

BTW, for those wondering what the big deal is with the new Greek tags since apparently nothing has changed, currently the Greek tags require a certain font to be installed on your computer. If your computer doesn't have that font(mine doesn't) you don't see the greek characters.

This uses unicode, which is almost universally accepted, to display the Greek letters. This results in almost total platform independence.

Will Greek texts in archieves that are not in unicode remain visible in the upgrade?

[$cirisme]

John Reece:

Will Greek texts in archieves that are not in unicode remain visible in the upgrade?

Yes.

[dizzle]

Soon and very soon