Social Wave 1.5 Now Coming After July 4th

This Social Wave 1.5 release has been pushed back and pushed back time after time this year due to me having a very very busy work life this year, but it looks like I finally have everything in line to finish this release that I started late last year. Social Wave v1.5 will be here shortly after July 4th. I'll post an exact date as we get closer so people can make alternate arrangements to exchange messages as there's a chance the system could be down for a few hours.

There's a long list of stuff that should be coming very soon, but if you have to see something, I posted a peek at the new look a few months ago:http://socialwave.net/main/index.php?act=A...pe=post&id=6856

Here's the revised list of features for Social Wave 1.5:

General Changes:

• Complete redesign of entire site
• Simplified URLs to access areas of site
• Filter displayed links shown in Active Discussions sidebar
• Collapsable inline help boxes to explain features
• Option to publish content to GoogleBase
• Redesigned Help and Support areas
• Add keyword tags to topics, profiles, events to link related items
• Invite a friend
• New Social Wave Search Engine

Events:

• Create photo albums for events / show multiple images in an event listing
• Upload images directly to event postings
• Create private events (viewable by invite only)
• Real time Venue lookup for Event Postings
• Save events in Draft status
• Cancel event feature
• Group related events under one heading (multiple events with an event)
• Automatic reminder emails to event guests
• Post occasions (holidays, special days, etc)

Opinions:

• Redesigned look and navigation
• Request a review of a shop, service, or thing
• Simplified review ratings
• Improved integration between opinion board and message boards

Groups:

• Create RSS feeds for group content
• Improved moderator controls
• Export Events & News pages to HTML
• Option to hide group posts from main index

Gallery:

• Watermark your images with custom or SW watermark
• Create private albums visible to invitees only
• Create slideshows from gallery images
• Drag and Drop image upload support
• Flash based album viewer

Forums:

• Display links to similar topics at bottom of topic pages / group related topics
• Save new topics as unpublished Draft status posts
• Option for do not show on main index page
• Improved image upload for topics

Classifieds:

• Publish classifieds to Google Base
• New interface for posting classifieds with drag and drop image upload support (25% probability)
• Multiple layouts for classified ads (25% probability)

Merchant Profiles:

• Create custom coupons online
• Integration of Merchant Profile Banners with SW Ad Banner rotation
• Flash based image gallery / slideshow from gallery images
• Improved Merchant Profile Set-up Wizard

Profiles:

• Member profile search features
• Tags: group members based on common interests
• Improved support of classified ads
• Member Guestbooks for other members to sign

My Account:

• Improved subscription/notifications management area
• Send Private Message to multiple users

Chat:

• Return of live chat
• Send live instant message to other online members

Now, if anyone has any questions about where Sheldon will be for the entire month of June, we now know for certain that it will be: In Front of His Computer. In July, we may have to have him surgically removed from his office chair.

Development continues to move along nicely. Here's another preview of the Social Wave 1.5 release. This is a sneak peek at the "My Account" areas. It's been completely reorganized to be easier to navigate with lots of visual buttons.

It also looks a hell of a lot nicer.

And another preview shot... Social Wave Groups gets a makeover too. That really cluttered ugly grey menu for the group has been replaced by something easier on the eyes and more noticeable.