Can you believe that Fall has already arrived, school is open, leaves are changing and cold weather just around the corner. Its been some time since I have sent out a digest, but lots of personal conflicts have reduced my time. I was hospitalized at the end of August and first week of September and it was a long recovery. I still am having residual problems due to the illness, but I am back in the swing of things. Posting Requirement Notification Change For All Members Please remember you must have at least three posts to view and download any of the themes that are provided in the Themes & graphics gallery. I keep the posting requirement very low. Many forums offering themes today require a post count of 25 or more. Directory and Featured Forum members need 5 posts to have their link placed in the list for featured forum. Post counts will not change for any of the holiday season, so if you don't have the required posts of 3 gives you plenty of time to add posts to your count. All of the sections on the forum add to your post count. In 2014 all post counts will go to 5 to view and use any of the themes and graphics so please keep this in mind if you only have 3 you will be locked out of these section in January.
Drastic Board Changes Due to my illness and lack of being able to be on the forum I have decided to downsize the forum completely. I have reduced all of the community boards and concentrate on a more resource board. It will still be necessary to make the 3 posts which in 2014 will raise to 5 posts to view and download any and all themes & graphics. Services will remain same. I have removed all of the Home and Hearth, which included recipes, health, furry friends and keep it clean. I have also removed all Entertainment and Media, which included TV and Music etc. I feel that there are enough forums covering all these forum subjects or categories and members can join/register at any of those. I still have a small community section to allow for the post count that is necessary to obtain the themes, which include daily check in, events, blogging, games, & Polls & Surveys. These boards should allow members to up their post counts and always have access to any of the services. The directory remains in tact, as well as the services. It takes me a long time to continue to keep all the posting boards active and at this point I would rather concentrate my time on designing and with the holiday season upon us will give me more time to offer those varieties of themes. I have updated the navigation map to reflect all the changes of the board. New Sections Added FYI (The Management) For Your Information located in one area. Survey Loft (Getaway Lounge/Playground) To compliment the Polling Station we now have a survey loft with non-intrusive survey questions. All polls and surveys count towards required post count.
Members Themes Gallery
Many New Themes have been added in the Theme Galleries. New Themes 6 Fall Themes have been added to database
- Autumn Blush
- Autumn Days
- Autumn Flowers
- Autumn Leaves
- Colors of Fall
- Harvest Apple
Pumpkin
Halloween Themes
- I'm Batty
- Midnight Forest.
- Spider Web
New Member(s) Deletion Process (No posts) I have recently deleted over half of the membership. As this forum was closed for a long period of time before I reopened all the old members who haven't logged back in since reopening and over two years ago have all been deleted. I also delete any membership that is 6 months old from time of registration if a member has not made any attempt at making a post but may re register if you wish to do so. If you would like you membership deleted prior to the 6 months please pm me and I will delete your membership immediately. Our Member stats now reflect a true picture of the membership and threads and posts.
Mamagail's PBv5 Designs Blog
In conjunction with the forum I have built a blog on blogspot. Members can request that their forum be listed in the section Favorite forums to visit. I do hope members will check out the new blog, as this is the area where all sneak peeks of upcoming themes will be provided. You can join the circle, fill out the comment & suggestions, take a poll, grab a free offer all on the blog. Here is the link: http://mamagailsdesigns.blogspot.com/
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