Promedia Grand Reopening!

[Andrew.McGivery]

Welcome back to Promedia!!

In april of 2010, Scottcool and I got in contact and began talking about the reopening of Promedia. I began on a design concept as well as brainstorming, and soon, Promedias new version and reopening was in progress. Months later, july 16th, Promedia is reopened to the public, 1 day late of its 2 year anniversary, with new features, a new version, and a new vision.

Coding
With 99% custom coding from myself, there are TONS of features for you to try out. I put over 1500 lines of code into this project, and while some may argue that loading times suck, it is because there is a lot of features and content to load. I hope you enjoy it either way.

Graphics
As you may notice, the new version isn't a big deal graphics wise, and it is quite simple. The reasoning is that we wanted to focus on features and content instead of focusing on eye candy. However, over time in future patches, a lot of graphics will be changed.

One thing for you to enjoy though...
;D

Ranks
Currently, only the ranks up to 700 have been added. While that may not sound like a lot of ranks to open with, that number represents 41 ranks for you to achieve. More ranks will be added with each coming patch.

Achievements
We decided to open with the first 10 levels, representing 50 achievements. Again, more will be released with future patches.

Features
First of all, this is a summarized features list. Second, there are already patches being planned to bring a lot more features to you. So stay tuned for that one.

• Main Page
  
  • Complete Page Remodel
    
  • Latest Announcement with continue reading and comment links
    
  • 3 of the general discussion boards
    
  • Recent Event Image
    
  • Remodeled Infocenter with some averages
    
  
  
• Profile Page
  
  • Complete Remodel
    
  • Tabbed-like view for comments/recent activity
    
  • Profile Comments
    
  • Personal messages as "status"
    
  • Twitter Status fed straight from twitter
    
  • Points and # of Achievements listed on side
    
  • Like/dislike and reputation instead of karma and karma links
    
  
  
• Thread View
  
  • Remodeled to separate important information and links from actual thread content
    
  • Digg and Facebook Share buttons
    
  • Minimalistic miniprofile for focus on actual post and not user's stats
    
  • Like/dislike links for posts
    
  • like/dislike links for repuation
    
  • slight remodel to miniprofile and "full reply" button in quick reply box
    
  
  
• News Board Remodel
  
• General Board "Trending Topics"
  
• Points/Shop/Achivements
  
  • Points calculated using a formula
    
  • Points Formula also takes into account achivements and reputation
    
  • Shop page with descriptions and purchase button
    
  • Lists point count on shop page
    
  • Won't let you purchase items if you don't haev enough points
    
  • Sucessful purchase sends purchase request to admin
    
  • Achivements list with "request/claim" links which sends a request to an admin
    
  • Noification of new achivements
    
  • Notification of points being out of sync
    
  
  
• Friends
  
  • Friend's List Page
    
  • "Add to friends" link in peoples profiles
    
  • Private message link for each friend
    
  • "Nicknames" for each friend
    
  • Change nickname link
    
  • Delete friend link
    
  • Message All link
    
  
  
• Banner Selector
  
  • Notification of existance of banner changer
    
  • Banner previews on rollover
    
  • click to change, no page change
    
  • Saves via cookie
    
  
  
• Recent Activity page
  
• Notification of new private message
  

Enjoy
Thank you for coming out for the reopening of Promedia, and I hope you enjoy all of our hard work. Have fun!

[ScottCool]

I thank Fredy for all his hard work on ProMedia through the good and bad times for him. He really pulled through to make you guys a kick-ass skin. He took my wildest concepts and turned them into what you see today and then some. I hope you all enjoy the skin and post around with our other users.

LOOK AT THAT FEATURES LIST! I MEAN DAMN!

[Von]

Great work Andrew; things look really good. I know and can tell you really put a lot of hard work into making sure everything was running smoothly. Additionally thanks for letting me be mod; I like you just a little bit more now.

OH AND LOOK AT DEM FEATURES

[Andrew.McGivery]

thanks guys

[Parker]

Promedia to be honest is like no other proboards forum I have ever ever seen, the codes that Andrew have done are things that I would never thought could even happen on proboards, in fact they are things that some high class coders said couldnt be done on PB. The features are amazing and so is the forum!

[ViperBite]

The new forum looks like it has a lot of great new features! I'm glad to be back and I'm excited to look around and discover what's new!

[Andrew.McGivery]

and the best part is, there is more on the way

[ScottCool]

Yup, and thats what scares me lol.
lets see what else you can do andrew...

[J3NN4F3R]

I know I'm *really* late, but just wanted to let you guys know that you did an amazing job! The board looks amazing.

[ScottCool]

Ha I'm glad you like it. Better late than never