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I would just like to announce to everyone here at The Staff Lounge, that there are an array of new developments planned for the forum, its directory and alternate various resources. The main being a complete new homepage overhall and house style change. Instead of now being based of the fantastic vBStyles Element Skin, we are moving to a personalized custom skin designed by myself, and looks forward to a much more stylised, professional, response. I hope you will all love these new changes, and provide as much feedback as possible during the changes, i am currently in the process of uploading over the new homepage which shall present a firm starting point for how the forums themselves shall now look.

I would just like to announce to everyone here at The Staff Lounge, that there are an array of new developments planned for the forum, its directory and alternate various resources. The main being a complete new homepage overhall and house style change. Instead of now being based of the fantastic vBStyles Element Skin, we are moving to a personalized custom skin designed by myself, and looks forward to a much more stylised, professional, response. I hope you will all love these new changes, and provide as much feedback as possible during the changes, i am currently in the process of uploading over the new homepage which shall present a firm starting point for how the forums themselves shall now look.

Cosmetic Changes Firstly, after running The Staff Lounge through an online xHTML checking programme called W3 Validation which checks website script and if it follows accepted internet coding conventions i was shocked that we had over 100 errors on numerous pages such as the forum index, the sitemap index, etc ... but that has all be cleaned up now with The Staff Lounge running fully xHTML valid. :) During this process there has been a slight update in ashetic appearances of certain aspects such as for example, the homepage now displaying main content in the left majority table and then additional information and site navigation modules on the right hand side. There has also been the inclusion of an About Us page which is displayed on both the forum and sitemap home to help new visitors learn more about aims as a forum and what we intend to acheive. Users and guests alike can now also Advertise on The Staff Lounge for the small price of either $10, or, $20 you can have your website link, or, image (depending upon your subscription type) listed throughout The Staff Lounge in places garenteeing high click-through rates and interaction from regular forum users and guests alike. For those more interested in becomming an advertiser on The Staff Lounge please view our Advertise page and fill out our PayPal powered purchase form. Read the rest of this entry »

Cosmetic Changes Firstly, after running The Staff Lounge through an online xHTML checking programme called W3 Validation which checks website script and if it follows accepted internet coding conventions i was shocked that we had over 100 errors on numerous pages such as the forum index, the sitemap index, etc ... but that has all be cleaned up now with The Staff Lounge running fully xHTML valid. :) During this process there has been a slight update in ashetic appearances of certain aspects such as for example, the homepage now displaying main content in the left majority table and then additional information and site navigation modules on the right hand side. There has also been the inclusion of an About Us page which is displayed on both the forum and sitemap home to help new visitors learn more about aims as a forum and what we intend to acheive. Users and guests alike can now also Advertise on The Staff Lounge for the small price of either $10, or, $20 you can have your website link, or, image (depending upon your subscription type) listed throughout The Staff Lounge in places garenteeing high click-through rates and interaction from regular forum users and guests alike. For those more interested in becomming an advertiser on The Staff Lounge please view our Advertise page and fill out our PayPal powered purchase form. Read the rest of this entry »

December Board Of The Month Winner Congratulations to Pixel Designz, who are this months Board of The Month, after fiending off a tough fight against fellow board eTalk they won by just one vote in a tight ending to the month long poll. To nominate your board for Februaries BoTM competition please view this thread, or to vote in the January 2006 BoTM competition you can also do so here. Good luck all, and a happy new year!

December Board Of The Month Winner Congratulations to Pixel Designz, who are this months Board of The Month, after fiending off a tough fight against fellow board eTalk they won by just one vote in a tight ending to the month long poll. To nominate your board for Februaries BoTM competition please view this thread, or to vote in the January 2006 BoTM competition you can also do so here. Good luck all, and a happy new year!

December Board Of The Month Winner Congratulations to Pixel Designz, who are this months Board of The Month, after fiending off a tough fight against fellow board eTalk they won by just one vote in a tight ending to the month long poll. To nominate your board for Februaries BoTM competition please view this thread, or to vote in the January 2006 BoTM competition you can also do so here. Good luck all, and a happy new year!

New Profile View and Directory Does the below image look familiar? Oh! Why yes, this is the old profile view which The Staff Lounge and many other vBulletin forums once ran, but after a couple of hours of template changes and revamps we have got a much more ergonomic profile view design. With a couple of extra profile fields for you to fill out too. For example, Favourite Music and Favourite Films are just a couple of examples of the new additions with Favourite Games currently being planned as well to be added at a later date. An example of the new profile template in action can be viewed here. Read the rest of this entry »

New Profile View and Directory Does the below image look familiar? Oh! Why yes, this is the old profile view which The Staff Lounge and many other vBulletin forums once ran, but after a couple of hours of template changes and revamps we have got a much more ergonomic profile view design. With a couple of extra profile fields for you to fill out too. For example, Favourite Music and Favourite Films are just a couple of examples of the new additions with Favourite Games currently being planned as well to be added at a later date. An example of the new profile template in action can be viewed here. Read the rest of this entry »

What 2006 Brings! As 2005 draws to an end The Staff Lounge has decided to give its style and functionality abit of a makeover. First off the blocks is the revamp of the header template, to help include more informative, relevant, topical information for our users - hence, the display of "Latest Forum Threads". Also the Staff Lounge textual logo design has a bit of a makeover, presenting a much more informal, personal and collective representation of our mission statement to become your vBulletin resource. Also to coincide with the infusion of orange into the logo we have spiced up the image navigation too with nice little mouse-over effects to keep you entertained for a couple of minutes at least :) Another big milestone The Staff Lounge has recently surpassed is the 10,000 post mark. Congratulations everyone and many more post, thread and member count milestone come our way - to coincide with our expansion the creation of a Graphics Team, and a Support Team to help ensure we are providing a sufficient level of support in our more specialised forums has been created and their positions now fully filled and we are hopeful you will be impressed with what Slash, Cole and Jennifer will provide in their relevant forums from now on :) Read the rest of this entry »

What 2006 Brings! As 2005 draws to an end The Staff Lounge has decided to give its style and functionality abit of a makeover. First off the blocks is the revamp of the header template, to help include more informative, relevant, topical information for our users - hence, the display of "Latest Forum Threads". Also the Staff Lounge textual logo design has a bit of a makeover, presenting a much more informal, personal and collective representation of our mission statement to become your vBulletin resource. Also to coincide with the infusion of orange into the logo we have spiced up the image navigation too with nice little mouse-over effects to keep you entertained for a couple of minutes at least :) Another big milestone The Staff Lounge has recently surpassed is the 10,000 post mark. Congratulations everyone and many more post, thread and member count milestone come our way - to coincide with our expansion the creation of a Graphics Team, and a Support Team to help ensure we are providing a sufficient level of support in our more specialised forums has been created and their positions now fully filled and we are hopeful you will be impressed with what Slash, Cole and Jennifer will provide in their relevant forums from now on :) Read the rest of this entry »

There's a new story entry added: Changes Ahead! Changes Ahead! As you are now no doubt aware The Staff Lounge is undergoing a selection of numerous exciting changes which we are sure you are eagerly awaiting with anticipation. Firstly The Staff Lounge is becomming much more than a forum community, with a forum Directory, forum Resources, forum News and much more coming your way you'll find it hard to believe ever stayed away. For the time being The Staff Lounge is re-entering its research and development phase, experimenting with new forum software items such as Subdreamer, and a directory powered by phpLinkDirectory too.