IndexU Support

As promised, with the release of IndexU Deluxe I planned on having a sale on memberhips to indexusupport.com. It’s going to be a time delayed sale so I’ll explain how it works.

The sale depends on the time of the annoucement of the sale. Here is a table of how the sale will work.Time after announcement Discount
0-60 minutes 60%
1-2 hours 50%
2-4 hours 40%
4-12 hours 30%
12-24 hours 20%
24-48 hours 10%

As you can see the discount gets lower the longer you wait. If you happen to try and pay for the membership and there is a problem, email me right away and I will guarantee your price once the issue has been resolved.

The current time is 1:00 PM CST

You can sign up here

You heard it here first.

Before it hits the forum, before users have managed to find it by accident and even before John knows about it!

IndexU Deluxe has been released.

You can view the demo at http://nicecoder.com/demo/indexu/ and download it right now in your client area.

If you don’t check or haven’t noticed, there have been a lot of updates to SVN lately.

• A few of the plugins were updated
• The new Kosmos theme is now complete
• Numerous files have been removed
• Various bugs have been fixed
• The momo template has been removed
• A css selector was added to the admin panel

There really is a lot more, but I’m sure you get the idea that a lot of updates have been done.

I spoke with Dody and he states that IndexU Deluxe is very close to release. Yes he has said this before, but this was said even when the kosmos theme was labelled as incomplete. Now that the theme and the plugin system are done I think we’re at most two weeks away from release.

The two weeks is only a guess. I know a few changes that are going to occur that are not part of IndexU need to be done first. Those may end up taking some time to get done as well.

So lets hope for a release in late March or early April.

As you can see on this site, and shortly in your inbox, Dody has informed me that IndexU Deluxe will include a plugin engine!

With the plugin engine you can:
- attach the plugin to a hook (and multiple hooks)
- create new admin menus and forms
- enable and disable plugins

This is tremendous news and actually something I spoke to Dody about when I was first hired. I am very glad to hear that many of my recommendations are being implimented into the new version.

I for one, cannot wait for the new version. Dody has told me that is is complete but requires some cleanup still.

I hope you’re all as excited as I am about this. What is should mean is that modifications can be added, updated and removed painlessly at any time, including during version upgrades!

Indexusupport is looking for contributors!

Do you have what it takes to contribute to the Indexusupport community?

Contributors do not need to offer support to users except for their own submitted mods and/or themes which will be provided by the comment system or on the nicecoder forums.

What do you get? You get a membership to Indexusupport at no cost for as long as you remain a contributor which includes all benefits. Contributors also receive a link on the Indexusupport site as well as on IndexuFAQ.com

Requirements

• User must contribute monthly
• Contributions must be in the form of free mods or themes
• A minimum of one free contribution per month is required
• Two contributions must be provided to be added as a contributor
• Contributions must be submitted by the first of the month
• Contributions must be unique and not appear anywhere else for at least 14 days after submission to Indexusupport.com
• Contributions can also be comprised of tips of questions/answers for IndexuFAQ.com. However there needs to be a significant amount of these types of contributions.

Contributors must contribute monthly or their account will be changed back to that of a normal subscriber.

Any contributions submitted still belong to the user and may be used elsewhere, however by submitting contributions to Indexusupport you give Indexusupport and it’s parent(s) and owner(s) license to distribute the contributions free of charge with no time limit and without restriction.

Launched less than 30 minutes ago, IndexuFAQ.com is the newest site aimed at helping users getthe most out of IndexU.

At the current time IndexuFAQ is not complete but it is quickly filling up with the most commonly asked questions by users that I have run across.

Plans for the site are to add new questions regularly and to update the site for new versions when they are available.

Drop by IndexuFAQ.com and check it out today. If you notice that there is a question missing that should be on the FAQ please feel free to submit your question for inclusion. Users who submit questions will have credit given to their name or website.

There hasn’t been much activity lately, and that’s due to the pending arrival of the new release. I would rather not put a bunch of time into making mods or addons for 5.4 if they will be redundant in no time at all. Expect some more quiet time until we hear what’s going on with IndexU Deluxe.

Users have been able to see the Febuary newsletter from Nicecoder on the site here for a while now but have not received the newsletter in their inboxes. Apparently there is an issue with the listmail script Dody is using so the newsletter mailing has been delayed. Why do I have it on my site? I’m the one who is writing the newsletters.

Some of you have noticed that the LiveHelp logo was recently changed and I no longer “appear” online. The fact is that I am online, but I changed the how the script operates and you will only see me as being online if you are a paid subscriber. This was done to help advertise the paid subscriptions and to cut down on some resources.

Lastly, I plan on having a membership sale when the new version is released. It’s going to be a time delayed sale so I’ll explain how it will work now.

The sale depends on the time of the annoucement of the sale. Here is a table of how the sale will work.

As you can see the discount gets lower the longer you wait. If you happen to try and pay for the membership and there is a problem, email me right away and I will guarantee your price once the issue has been resolved.

This is just a friendly reminder to those users out there that have wordpress integrated with IndexU.

If you haven’t done so, you should update your wordpress installation as a new version was released within the last 24 hours due to a security issue.

I realize that some users may not be aware of these kinds of issues, but you should really keep on top of them or you could discover that your site is hacked one day.

The newest version is 2.3.3. I knw it’s a bitch to upgrade scripts every time a release comes out. Today I updated 10 installations of WordPress so I can feel your pain.

If you need assistance post a message in the Nicecoder forum and I will help you as much as I can. For a small fee of $10 I can do the upgrade and reintegration for you.

Do you run a directory for a geographical area? Do you want an Imagemap on your index? If you’re interested please contact me as I can probably accomodate your needs.

Single countries, states/provinces, counties or cities are possible. A world map however would be possible only if it was small enough so you would be limited to categories by continent.

The custom Imagemap can be made for a new category database or from your own geographic category database.

Imagemaps can also be made for many other types of sites and are not limited to geography. Almost any image could be used as an Imagemap.

Examples

• A picture of a car could be used for categories relating to autobody parts, engine parts, wheels/tires, exhaust etc.
• A picture of a person could be used for categories relating to medical specialists such as podiatrists or chiropractors.
• A picture of a furniture store could be used for categories relating to furniture such as tables, chairs, lights etc.
• A picture of a home entertainment unit oculd be used for categories relating to home electroics such as televisions, speakers, amplifiers and DVD players.

There is almost no limit to what you can do with an Imagemap and IndexU. It’s a great way to make your site look completely different from all the other directory sites out there even if you don’t change the theme!

Custom made Imagemaps start at $40 and up depending on complexity, installation is included. Paid members can receive a 15% discount.

With the integration of IndexU and wordpress many users will have found that their passwords have changed. I do apologize for this and you will need to request your password be sent to you.

Of course you can change your password once you log back in. I am pretty much done with the integration test so I should not need to reset the passwords again.

Integration is 90% complete, and once it’s done I’ll have it posted as the first addon/mod for paid members only.

UPDATE

I also found out tonight that I broke something else as well.  Apparently I set everyone’s role on the blog to blank. Which means that you weren’t allowed to do anything but look, even if you logged in you would have had issues viewing the content you could normally view. I apologize for this as well and that has been fixed.

It was with the best of intentions that I broke things.

I’ll try not to let it happen again!