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[EchelonOne]

Echelon Designers is very close to officially launching.... We have been online for almost 6 months now, building up the frontend of the website - you may well ask why it has taken so long, well you will soon see what we have done using just IP.Content and jQuery. At the moment, the IP.Portal is being used as an homepage, however this is very restricted in many ways, so we took IP.Content to a new level to show what it can do, optimizing it for maximum visual impact.

Since, we are mainly aimed at graphics design and forum modifications, you will soon see what we have done, from implementing Twitter directly in to IP.Content, or even our ed.Flickr into it's only 'live' feed, perhaps you maybe interested in our YouTube 3D Gallery room! Yes, there's a lot of new creative and innovative ideas to hit Echelon, and all fully previewed in IP.Content. All demo's we will have available will be locked to our domain for copyright reasons. Products you purchase from us use tracking, each product will be licensed per domain, full details of how this works will be published very shortly, we do not gather imformation about your website/forum, it is simply code to track installations on registered domains.
eD.Twitter is a product that has been designed to comply with Twitter TOS, you can view and reply to tweets directly through our site, plus theres many new functions it gives you.
eD.Flickr is a gallery that pulls your images directly from your Flickr account, with some very clever features.
eD.3DYouTube will simply blow your mind. Imagine walking in to a virtual room with images hanging on the walls, click on any one and it zooms in to that image and plays the corresponding YouTube video. Fully configurable and will even handle local videos if you want to host them on your IP.Board

All commercial products will carry Echelon Designers branding, however there will be an optional extra when you purchase to have the branding removed. Most clients tend to take this option. Other options you can inquire about are custom versions of products, obviously these vary in price and the amount of work involved to your specifications.

We will also have our unique Contact page, using it's own additional files to send mail. We decided the standard IP.Board contact system was not really adaquate for our purposes. We do have alternative contact products which will also be available.

A lot of the features we are bringing online will be available to purchase, including a banner rotator - and this is no standard rotator, we have already sold customized versions to clients already, with over 40 transitional effects to choose from per banner, it is very versatile.

Also in development is the ability to upload and play mp3 attachments with a sleek looking mp3 player that appears in posts - this is just a simple modification for IP.Board, the mp3 player is a unique new design and fully documented using the IP.Documentation Creator from IPS.

Many of these products are also multi-platform, and fully documented to run on IP.Board and vBulletin 4 series. We will not be releasing documentation for XenForo installations, if you know how to implement within this forum, then we cannot guarantee the products full functionality. They can be implemented even in to static HTML pages, the configuration system we use can easily be changed to dynamic feeds. On ordering you will have the option to choose which platform you wish to use the product/s on. All products will come with a full year of updates and support included.

Our commercial products will only be available from this website, they will not be released on the IPS Marketplace which we also use for some modifications, nor will they be availabe on vBulletin.org due to their terms of use.

You will soon see, that we produce some very creative products, some free and others commercial - and we guarantee they are unique and of a professional high standard. Keep your eyes open, the dawn of a new era of products is about to hit the forum communities!

[lisa_marie]

This sounds promising.

[Bryan]

this looks like a great beginning to something very promising and exciting!

[EchelonOne]

Well, I am just tidying up these forums now, I have a couple of cross-browser issues to fix. Designed the top banner rotator for advertising our main affiliates, making some code changes to the skin to accommodate the new areas. Would have been easier to setup a test board first, at least then people would not see developer tools being used. The whole IP.Content material I have designed locally though, because that was a lot more difficult to implement, but it does basically used all the same styling as what is on these forums, just to keep it all 'streamlined'.

I ran a few checks yesterday to see how the site was doing with the SEO work being carried out, seems there was a +300% increase in the past month - hopefully this will be an even larger jump with the first major modification I got planned for release, there's an alpha release on test at this url: http://www.echelonde...ting-flv-player
It was originally designed as a commercial addon for Photopost Pro, but I re-coded it to work with IP.Gallery, it still requires a lot of work to be done before I fully release it, and it will be free modification.

The main area will be the IP.Content which will be used in many ways that are not documented on IPS, which I am coding in to the design.

One thing I find strange about IP.Board is the lack of a contact form, so I have designed my own which will be released as a modification - the one I will be using is just a 'one-off' built with IP.Content.

I found the keywords which have already got Echelon on the first page of listings! So, they will be added shortly to the meta-tags on the numerous pages where they are required.

At the moment, everything seems to be going well, and hopefully will continue to grow.