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[EchelonOne]

If you experience any slow loading of this main site is due to work being carried out on our test IP.Board 3.2. Because we use a CDN, which caches most of our data, we had no choice but to disable it during the past week, it does automatically switch back in after 3 hours from Development Mode. We have totally redesigned the whole look, added a brand new header and have now 2 banner rotators running sequentially in the header only.

A major change we have made to 3.2 is completely removed the default IP.Board menu system and removed a lot of clutter that we feel was not required. To provide a naviagtion system that is cross-browser compatible, using advanced permissions based on usergroup and also dynamic - so it updates itself without us doing any manual changes. We have come to a point where the design looks professional. It was designed with IP.Content in mind, which will be using our IP.Board customized header and footer. We have incoporated our own Contact Us form in to the menu, making it easier than reloading a new page just to submit correspondance.

We have also made many changes to the look not just for cosmetic purposes, but also to increase our SEO ranking, many improvements await the new site look and functionality. Some features we have disabled to Guests, this was done to lower server resources which are normally caused by bots or crawlers. The standard menu system has all been replaced, and blended to match the new look. Over the past week we have implemented many changes to the default 3.2 coding including the CSS.

Our first priority is to update our current core to 3.2 and add all applications, once this is complete the customization will be switched in, apart from IP.Content which will become our main landing page allowing access to new areas of the site. This time we have cut no corners, the overall design and layout is totally unique and using a menu system that is using no javascript, only CSS3, HTML and PHP.

Our new IP.Board skin is completely unique and will not be available to purchase - the design has been done specifically for this site only.

Once this work is complete, we shall start releasing new modifications and aimed at IPB 3.2 only - a few will be for vBulletin 4, but our main objective is to become a resource site for IP.Board users.

Thanks for reading, and we shall be launching and upgrading to IPB 3.2 very soon!