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Direct Auctions SL Testimonial for Justin Parks

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Direct Auctions SL

We at Direct Auctions have hosted two websites with Craig Edmonds and Justin Parks for over 5 years. We have found them to be very professional in their business dealings and are extremely impressed with the level of service and ultimately the actual websites produced.

Very clear and functional, clients wanting more information on us comment regularly how easy it is to navigate the pages and find the information they need.

This is vital for us as many of our clients are from abroad and are looking at us for the first time. The website is our main marketing tool and needs to be perfect. We update the site regularly and find the back office very easy to use.

Through the life of the project they have adapted our sites to suit us and have gone above and beyond the call of duty to accommodate our requests. We would highly recommend anyone to employ their services and would be happy to discuss this with anyone thinking of using them for a website.

Inez Rix and Barry McEntee – MDs
Direct Auctions SL

WordPress Version 3 released

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Looks like the first versions of WordPress Version 3 has finally been released! Heres a breakdown on the features we can expect on this verision (oh goodie!).  Full details on the WordPress of course are available here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.

Some of the features I’m quite interested in seeing are:

Highlights

  • WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
  • New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
  • New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
  • Custom header and background APIs.
  • A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

User Features

General

  • New WordPress logo for admin header
  • Place “Search Engines Blocked” mini-alert in the wp-admin header to prevent people from accidentally delisting themselves
  • Revised administration menu icons
  • Revised Gray Admin Color Scheme

Dashboard

  • Add link so user can visit Dashboard after core upgrade
  • Move Tools->Upgrade menu option to Dashboard->Updates and overhaul of user interface so themes, plugins, and core upgrades under one panel
  • New menu management (navigation) via Menus option under Appearances Menu (#11817)
  • Password nag for newly registered users
  • Split Right Now widget into Content | Discussion

Posts

  • Allow for removing all tags in quick edit
  • Improved revision comparison user interface

Links

  • Order link categories by name, not count, on Add New/Edit Link page

Comments

  • Add additional columns to the Posts Comments view
  • Allow configuration of number of comments to display Recent Comments dashboard module
  • Block comments for future posts and password protected posts (when password not provided)
  • Change to comments UI to show when a comment is replying to another, and link to the parent comment

Plugins

  • Add Details and Install Now action links under each plugin listed in Install Plugins
  • Allow Tab indenting, Shift-Tab (outdenting), and multi-line tabbing, in plugin editor
  • Upgrade plugins in bulk from the Plugins->Installed panel (#11542)
  • When deleting plugins, check for uninstall hooks, and warn of data deletion

Users

  • Allow “No role for this blog” to be chosen in Users->Add New panel

Settings

Multisite

…and that’s just a taste of what the new version has!  now just have to hope that nothing breaks…