With in the nest two weeks, we shall be seeing a veriety of changes on both the website and the forum. With the new changes coming soon, I do welcome any ideas for looks, scripts, content.. anything you may think of.
Please let me know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions you may have.
WEBSITE:
The website should not be a problem, and you may not notice anything once the change is complete. (other then graphicsl changes of course) Untill then, there may be a few days that the website is off line. The forum shall stay online durring this time.
With the new service we shall be saving a LOT of money as well as new features avalible to everyone.
Once the changes are complete, hopefully we shall have a better site, with more usefull tools again. Including each of us being able to upload our own screen shots, photos and more. Any advice or ideas you have, please feel free to let me know.
Email:
In addition to the changes, all Andronnai members will be able to have their own @andronnai email address. It can either be a pop mail or you can choose to have it redirected to your current email address. (Which is what I always do, keeps me from logging into several different services/sites a day.) Previously, @andronnai emails were only for queries and gm's.
Example:
Someone sends you an email to: yourname @ andronnai.com
You recieve it at your old email at: yourname @ yourhost.com with the heading telling you where it came from and from who.
Photo and screen shot albums:
I will also be able to host our own screen shots and photo albume all on one server. Again, this is a seperate service we had and would require me uploading the shots and pictures by hand then writting the scripts for them. (usualy just one or two lines to add them onto the page)
WIth the new site, (once I figure it all out) Anyone that is a member will be able to upload their own images and see them almost instantly.
Fileshare and file hosting:
For those that do their own mods, like for UT, Oblivion and Morrowind, we will be able to share our mods through our own website. There will be no need to go to other sites. Of course, we can still do that using our psudo screen names, but here we can have our own mods in one place.
FORUM:
We will have a new forum. I know,.. some of us will be reluctant to see a change here. This will be our second change over the last 10 years, and one for the good. Some of the features you now know and love will be in, just with added features and abilities.
Also the look and scripts aught to be a lot cleaner as well, since I will not have to fight with Aimoo and their scripts.
The current forum is payed for seperatly from the web host site. With the move to the new host, we will be able to host our own forum wtih out paying anyone, or anything extra. So once more.. it will save us a LOT of money. We also will have more features. Almost anything you can think of to be honest.
I am not sure if I wil be able to transfer your log in acounts to the new host. I will let you all know ahead of time though. More then likely one will have to re regester on the new ones once I get them up.
Login Names:
We will no longer have to worry about someone having our log in name on other Aimoo forums. If there was a name you wanted, it will be your own. Since the new host site will be unique from other message boards, such as Aimoo, Each of you can have your own personal name you so desire. No worry about someone from another mesage board having "your" name. 
Avatars:
There will be new avatars to choose from, I hve a huge package already to upload, and will be working on all the drow ones as well. Once the forum is up, we will also be able to have custom Avatars as well. Though instead of me hosting them on a seperate site, we will have them right in our list. There will also be seperate lists for the avatars as well based on accounts, groups and so on.
Polls and stats:
The new formats will have some new features for both displaying polls and forum/website stats. This will make it a LOT easer when setting up polls so everyone can find them easer. Instead of them being hidden on other pages and hving to search for them.
Rewards and Awards programs:
With the new forums, I or other mods wil be able to set up cutsom Awards for those that are high posters, high crafters in game and more. Pretty much your imagination is the limit. These will include custom icons and graphics.
Easy to navagate:
The new forums aught to be easer to navagat around, as well as rankings and permissions. Threads will be clearer (or as clear as you would like them to be) I will be able to put almost any information you would like in catagories, threads and or posts.
