Site will be down on July 9th at 9PM Pacific time - plus more new stuff - please read!

[hotcouponmama]

As Hotcouponworld appoaches it's second anniversary on July 10th, Heidi and I decided it would be appropriate to get the site a little gift. Actually, we think it's a pretty big gift!

If you hadn't already noticed, we've taken the site down a few times in the past few weeks to do some upgrades. We've bumped up to a bigger server to keep the site speeding along for all our members. Then we took the site down again last week to upgrade to the latest Vbulletin software with all the cool new toys (which we're figuring out too and there will be an FAQ topic on how to make it all work).

On July 9th at 9PM pacific time, we're going to take the site down one more time and give Hotcouponworld a facelift. When the site comes back on July 10th, we'll have a brand new look! The new look with be 90% complete on the 10th, with one more piece to integrate before the end of the summer. We're very excited as this has been planned for several months behind the scenes. It's been lots of late nights, chatroom discussions, and phone calls.

Some things that we think are important to note....

The site will be one skin choice from here on in. We think the new design should even work for those who are at work. This keeps us from having to maintain multiple skin patterns and making sure new usertools are properly integrated on each one.

The no-ads subscription will still work, but we have added a new section to the board, a right column with user tools, which aren't ads, and therefore don't turn off. But the usertools are pretty slick and we think you'll like them.

We'll have tested and retested all the links, but that doesn't mean we'll have caught all the little snags that might come up. There will be a thread in the announcement section to help report issues and we'll get them fixed as quickly as possible.

Some of the buttons and tabs will be in different places, but some of the more important ones are now coming out of hiding (like the coupon database) and will be more easily found. And there will be lots of quick reference tabs throughout the pages.

We're proud of the new design and we hope you'll love it as much as we do. We appreciate all of your patience as we've done all these upgrades, but we hope that the forums will be smoother, faster, and easier to understand for newbies and oldtimers alike!

Thanks for continuing to be a part of this great community of friends and deal! Heidi and I appreciate everything each of you do to make Hotcouponworld the best place to hang out online!


Julie

[mommytimes4]

Oh no....I am going to go through withdraws....but Thanks for the heads up!!!

[oscamaya]

woo hoo can't wait!

[hotcouponmama]

Bumping up!

[eisor]

I can't wait to see the new look? Any chance that it'll be compatible with FireFox 3?? When I use FireFox 3, I can't see any of the links.

[luckycharms288]

Is it still going to be orange? Or will it be boring gray since you said people can use it at work?

[collectorofbells]

bump

[mark]

I can't wait to see the new look? Any chance that it'll be compatible with FireFox 3?? When I use FireFox 3, I can't see any of the links.

Yes, fully compliant with firefox and safari (which is what I use).

Mark

[mark]

Is it still going to be orange? Or will it be boring gray since you said people can use it at work?

I will be orange, but softer. I will see if Julie and Heidi will let me post a screen shot.

Mark

[eisor]

Yes, fully compliant with firefox and safari (which is what I use).

Mark


Oh goody goody goody!! Exactly what I wanted to hear. I've been holding off upgrading to Firefox 3 b/c the links of the forum don't show up. I can't possibly use a browser that HCW doesn't properly appear in!!

[Melnel213]

Cool i'm excited!:smile:

[tacatcon]

Hoot Hoot! I love parties where it's someone else's anniversary and i get a present!!! :biggrin:

[irishlass]

:bump93:

[Jiji]

Just a curious question - do you have any idea what time you will have things back online? I had the DT's pretty bad before, but if I know it's going to be Wednesday afternoon, I can deal with it better. :)

[queenofthehivemomof5]

I think it will be a few hours....enough time to backup the board, load some stuff on, and give us a chance to make sure stuff is working OK.

[hotcouponmama]

Yep - 3-4 hours tops. It should all be back online pretty quick thereafter. I don't know who's more excited about it - me and Heidi, or Mark with his "post sneak peeks" comments. He's dying to flip the switch!

[notofthisworld1973]

Everything is looking good *thumbs up*

[mark]

We will not have the DNS issue like last time so everything should come back online immediately after the upgrade.

Mark

[kdownie]

Hip hip hooray!!! You are totally awesome

[trashpig]

I just read to my hub that July 10 is HCW's anniversary. He said "is that just toooo hot for you hun?"". We share the July 10th anniversary with HCW. Happy Anniversary HCW! And yes, that is just toooo hot for me. :excited2:

[irishlass]

:BigHand: Gonna Happen Tonite

[kimandkathess]

Hey thats pretty neat, me and my dh were married on July 10th! We are going on our 4th anniversary this year!!

~~Katrina~~

[hotcouponmama]

Hey thats pretty neat, me and my dh were married on July 10th! We are going on our 4th anniversary this year!!

~~Katrina~~

Happy Anniversary to you too. Good thing the site will be down tonight...:wink7:

[misse]

I was going shopping tomorrow but maybe i should go tonight......
Can not wait to see the upgrade.

[maribess]

thanks for letting us know....will have to find something to do while I can't gleem knowledge.... I GUESS i can always do laundry and clean out the car...man oh man

[2knoxs]

LOL! This site is so great and the people make it even better, love the attitudes on here, very catching! The down time will give me time to put a list together for my "haves" Which I cant seem to get to cause Im always on here...or cleaning.....on here....cleaning...here. O boy, my life is a broken record. :hysterical:

[Drew's Mommy]

Thanks guys! I am super excited as well! :o)

[emily26505]

:mad83::dramaqueen1:

haha, im jk..i'm sure we'll all appreciate the updates. i already love the ones we got recently :BigHand:

[swatkitty]

Happy Anniversary, HCW!! I'm just too excited to see the site tomorrow!!

[kimandkathess]

Thanks:)!
.
Happy Anniversary to you too. Good thing the site will be down tonight...:wink7:

[castocreations]

:mad83::dramaqueen1:

haha, im jk..i'm sure we'll all appreciate the updates. i already love the ones we got recently :BigHand:



hahahahahaha Those first two smilies are my reaction exactly!!! *giggle*

I hate change. But since I LOVE this site I'll just have to grin and bear it. :)

[natty68]

I will go thru withdrawals! But looking forward to the new site!

[Songstress2]

Thanks for the heads up! Happy anniversary HCW!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mandcm]

:frown: My DH Keeps on singing its the final count down!!!:frown:

[CouponAngel]

Yeah can't wait!! Happy Anniversary HCW!

[SISSY816]

:BigHand::BigHand::BigHand::smile::smile::smile:


GREAT!!!!....

Thanks for all your hard work.......!!!

[hotcouponmama]

Bumping up for this in less than 2 hours!!!

[orchidofpurple]

Im excited but sad at the same time I do my best browsing after 9.

[luckycharms288]

Im sad! The site will be down at 11 pm central time and you said it will be down 3 or 4 hours so that means it wont be back up for me until 2 or 3 AM my time. I will probably be in bed by then so i gusse i wont be able to check out the new site until tommore!

[pennywatcher]

Not long now.

[luckycharms288]

lol im so addicted to this site. I keep looking over at the computer clock to see how much longer I have!

[mark]

tick, tick, tick, tick

[ocean_brez]

Less than 5 minutes to go. Now I have no reason to stay up late. See you in the AM! :wavehi:

[hotcouponmama]

5 minutes!

Don't forget, you can login in at Organic Grocery Deals (http://www.organicgrocerydeals.com) and hang out over there tonight!


See you all on the dark side of the moon.

[hotcouponmama]

tick, tick, tick, tick

You are just cruel!

[luckycharms288]

Ok just promise me that when I wake up tommore the site WILL be here and nothing major will happen tonight that messes the site up for good lol

[ILv2Shop]

Is our username and password the same for over there?

[mark]

Promise

[ocean_brez]

Does this affect Flash Chat? Should someone give them the 411???:giggle2:

[hotcouponmama]

Is our username and password the same for over there?

There is no "over there" - we're migrating the data here, so everything is the same!

[Mikki 316]

Love the new look!

[latte]

wow! i clicked back and thought i was lost at first! off to wander now to see how its all set up now:) hey if ive never told ya before, thanks to everyone(owners, admin, members) for all your hard work!

[jonnysmomma]

Looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU to everyone who works tirelessly for us to have an AWESOME site!

[eisor]

I really like the new design! It is definitely a more up to date, user friendly design. I've noticed a few things that need tweaked. I'll post those in a little after I play around some more.

[TJ665]

I'm glad the forum is now Firefox 3 compatible. That was my biggest problem when I upgraded and glad it's fixed now.

[pokey]

:wavehi: WOW!

I was offline a couple days for our son's funeral and when I checked back in I thought I was on the wrong site. No more Orange for me.

Whole new look. Nice! :BigHand:

At least I missed the down time.:giggle2:
thanks,
pokey

[talk2ham.1]

I love the new look! Thanks for all the work that went into it. So much nicer!

[hcwhcw]

Just want to add my "thumbs up" re the new look! I really like it, even though I'm still not sure what exactly is different... LOL.

The overall look does seem to have a more open, brighter feel to it. I'm glad you kept the orange - it conveys a nice warm energy, which I think really suits this community. Is that snazzy logo at the top left of the page, with the scissors and the flaming "Hot Coupon World," new?

Much thanks for all the time and effort you put into this forum, and for the great job you all do! Oh, and happy belated anniversary, Hot Coupon World! :-)