PromoForum Newsletter

November-December 2015

Christmas Holiday Events

Christmas Card

Christmas Card Exchange

It is that time of year for the holiday festivities to begin. This year, participate in the PromoForum Card Exchange and Member Card Exchanges.

Secret Santa

PF Secret Santa

What's a holiday event without a secret Santa? Participate with other members in exchange of gifts—anonymously—for $20.00 (USD) or less.

Decorated Christmas Tree

PF Chrismatize Contests

Our "Chrismatize" contests include decorating your profile by way of a cover photo, avatar, and signature. Also, submit your sites with a holiday theme.

November's Staff Members of the Month

April Bridges

⸗April⸗ - Crit Platoon

April is "Staff of the Month" because of her daily activity, her voice of reason, and ability to keep the peace. She's been a member since the beginning and continuously strives for excellence by participation and dedication.

Joshua Farrell - CP Leader

Joshua Farrell has been a joy to work with over the past few months. Like April, Joshua has been on PF since the beginning. He demonstrates great leadership, takes the initiative, and helps implement new ideas into the forum.

What's New On PromoForum?

Members & Posts

PromoForum would like to take the time to welcome our new members! We're up by nineteen members from last month's newsletter with a total of 78 members. Our newest members are ddoesmc, kolmias, jane, Express, mrlucifer88, Slimey, Mandoli, flash, ron, itommy, john123, martyseppy, cruizin, womenonly, liquidserve, jules, May, jgreig, ademayem, ashley, and malik52. If you have not already done so, check to see if they introduced themselves in the Introductions Board and welcome them to the forum!

PF Posts

I am proud to announce that PF has reached another milestone for the number of posts the forum has received. We're currently sitting at 5,000 + posts. Taking into consideration that PF opened it's doors on September 21st, 2015, 5,000 + is a major accomplishment! At this time, we'd like to thank all of our members & staff for helping us reach this milestone. We could not have done it with out you guys. Here's to many, many more!

New Team Member

It is our great honor to welcome the newest member of our staff team, synthtec. He's the newest member of our administration team. While it may seem like he's inactive on the forum, he's working his butt off in the background to bring us some amazing plugins for PF and a few other projects too. His ability to communicate, his enthusiasm, and dedication makes him an amazing addition to our Development Team! Welcome, synthtec!

PF 1.5 Theme

At the beginning of November 2015, we released our new theme PF 1.5. The motivation for the new theme came from numerous complaints from members and visitors about the pink and white start-up theme we'd launched with the site. PF developers Teg and Azayles redesigned and built a new theme from scratch. We hope that the new theme compensates those who did not like the original.

With this new theme, many features were introduced. Member profiles now utilize a cover photo and a complete redesign of the user profiles, and mini-profiles are visible. A sidebar was introduced to include a Member of the Month and Staff of the Month area; Staff Online area; Status Updates, Latest Posts, Staff Affiliates, and a Live Chat area for our members. Additionally, we added a footer affiliates bar for our member's affiliate banners should they decide they'd like to trade links with us.

Joshua Farrell built us a plugin that allows us to give our members the opportunity to have their leaderboard style advertisements in the header and footer of our forum. These advertisements are only visible when our forum is AdFree per ProBoards regulations.

PF Featured Section

PF now offers our members the opportunity to have their site featured. Featured sites display in a unique way just under the "Welcome Center" category of our forum. Each featured website is a redirect board with a screenshot image, the site's name, and a description. Members can submit their site's to be featured each month during the first two weeks of said month. Then, during the second two weeks, voting will commence among the members and staff for the site they'd like to see featured. All featured sites remain featured for one month.


Coming Soon!

Updated Profile Cover Photos

While cover photos are available on user profiles, we'll be working towards updating them. Currently, a team member with administrative privileges must change a user's cover photo should they request a change. We're working on something that will allow users to update their cover photos via the "Edit Profile" option.

In Development

PF is currently using a monetary system and plugin that is no longer being supported by its originator. Due to the removal of support, the features we want to add, and other things, synthtec is currently developing an entirely new system and shop.

This new shop will function similarly, but with some new features such as a lottery option, daily money option, and shop layout design options. While there's nothing wrong with the current monetary system or shop, we feel the need to build our own to meet the needs of what we're trying to accomplish.

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