Originally posted by NautiqueJeff View Post
Well, after about 36 hours of sitting at my desk working on PN, I finally have the new site stable. This is the first major update to PlanetNautique since 2002, when I revamped the ORIGINAL PlanetNautique site. That site was a mismatched grouping of CMS and forums software that didn't allow for integrated users, and was quite difficult to use. I was able to modify that original site into what we have all been using for the past EIGHT YEARS, and I think it has served us pretty well, especially considering how it came to be.

This new site is run completely on vBulletin software. Their newly-released Publishing Suite allows us to easily do what I had modified our original software to do, but with added security, and a TON of new features. I will be implementing some new features very soon. For righ now, I just wanted to get the site online ASAP, so that our total downtime was kept to a minimum.

The forums should be fully-functional, and I wanted to open the new site up to you guys as soon as possible so that you could start using it again. Sorry the forums section of the old site had to be down for the past two days, but I didn't want any new posts over there that wouldn't transfer to the new site.

I am still working on some of the colors and the layout of a few things, and the front page is not yet complete. There is still quite a bit of content for the front page that isn't loaded yet (older press releases, recalls, etc.), but I hope to have those things added over the next couple of days.

Keep checking back for new updates!

Thanks,
Jeff