After many many many…many hours of non-stop working, we have finally completed our goal. We have finally finished coding HipHopClique version 5.0. As some of you may have noticed, our website was down on July 12, 2008 between the hours of 8:00-11:40PM EST. This was due to the upgrade. In general it takes us only an hour to upload all work, however this time, we made soo many changes that it literally took us nearly 3 hours. We noticed some bugs as we uploaded and needed to fix them asap. Well thats enough with our story, so lets talk about whats new.
1. New layout powering the entire website. We got this awesome layout from our friends listed in the footer. Thanks to their hard work designing the layout, we were able to integrate it to our website.
2. New blog. After many requests of an interactive news chamber, we have decided to create a blog. With this blog we can now post news and you will have the ability to reply and ask questions.
3. Loging bug fixed. Couple of complaints were made about the “remember me” function not working. We figured out the bug and fixed it.
4. Private messenger has been upgraded one more level, allowing basic HTML commands to be used.
5. New advertisers panel. After a while, we decided to open up HipHopClique to public advertising. Since we get a lot of hits to our site, why not make some money and give it out to those in need! We are funding a few well known and respected organizations in the world, in addition to running our own funding program as well.
6. New staff list has released!!! We have finally released our new staff list.
7. The ranking system got a little work done as well. It now displays the users that are around your rank and not just any random rank.
8. Default game size. Previously we had the default (regular view) gaming size to be 500 pixels. We have changed that and made it even bigger. You can now view games and animations even on a bigger scale.
We are still in the process of making more changes. We will update this post with all changes. We have worked very hard on this version and hope that you enjoy it.