Some of what is new is the profiles now have more things to edit. The more the better is what some visitors feel, so we tried to cater to that and added some, including avatars.

We also worked in the messaging system left as an add on by Danny. Now you can message back and forth while logged in.

The most obvious new feature is what you're looking at: a blog. Some of the more experienced arcade owners will understand. This can be a real draw, especially for return traffic and search engine traffic. One of the nice things about this one is you don't need to try and marry some other blog script to your arcade script, this one is built in. And it allows you to set blogging privileges for members, without the need to make them admins. This allows you to have others helping you promote your site by adding content that people, and search engines, love. And if a blog is not for you, you can turn it off in the admin section.

The blog comments and messaging system do not allow HTML nor BBCode. The blog itself uses a code sort of like BBCode, but a bit different, unless you allow them trusted privileges. This was done to help cut back on the amount of SPAM and for extra security.

Not so noticeable is what was done to the back end. We started on breaking the admin responsibilities into smaller chunks that can be assigned without needing admin status. The blog for instance allows for blogging privileges without being an admin. We hope to work on this more. We hope soon to make it so that you can assign game management duties the same way, video, and hopefully a new forum section, all with the ability to grant some privileges with out the need to make the user an admin.

We also started breaking the script up a bit so that such things as different meta tags for each entry/game/..... can be done a lot easier. This also allowed us to make the menu on the right side variable, changing with the section being accessed by the visitor.

And we added some new fields to the database to allow us to add some features in that are planned, such as the links section detecting whether or not the site requesting a link exchange has your own link up on their end.

We hope you enjoy. Feed back of a constructive nature is always appreciated. It might not be followed for some reason, or it might be delayed, but it is always appreciated.

Posted On: 16-06-2009

Another thing new is that games now have the option to be set to not active. We are working on an add on to allow you to upload games and have them set to turn on by cron job so that it looks like you're adding games every day even though you are not.