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Yes, sad though it is, the old SimplyDV forums that have been a source of enlightenment and sanity for so many users for so long have now gone to the great server in the sky never to return.

A couple of months ago I posted some information here about how we were planning to add some exciting new features to the SimplyDV website that would provide a level of enhancement and (dare I use these words) “user experience” previously unseen in these parts. We’re now a step closer to achieving this.

As any of you who have run websites and web forums before will know, it’s an activity that’s fraught with problems simply because there are lots of people out there who are hell-bent on destroying whatever you do simply because they can. That’s one of the reasons why we closed the forums – I got fed up with the cat-and-mouse game that we were constantly involved in.

By switching the website’s main powering engine to WordPress, we’ve been able to establish a framework that makes it much easier to integrate new elements as we think of them; there’s a healthy and active development community out there who seem to develop new features at every turn, and that’s why WordPress is really attractive to us.

So…. very soon we’ll be installing BuddyPress to this site. BP is a major add-on which facilitates a fully-featured and functioning “community” within the framework of the site itself (unlike our old forums which were tacked on to the side and separate from the main navigation). In other words, you’ll have something that’s not far removed from social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. For the first time, SimplyDV will offer you the opportunity to create special-interest groups whose members you’ll be able to maintain a distinct relationship with. Within these communities you’ll be able to operate forums, too.

Hopefully, and as a direct result of this planned upgrade, we’ll be able to provide better support for:

• Camcorder Reviews and News
• Computer Video Import and Editing Software
• Media Players and Media-Sharing Hardware/Software
• DVD Authoring and Sharing
• Information, Advice and Tips on Shooting, Editing and Sharing Digital Video
• The Ins and Outs of High Definition Video and Television
• Using Cameras, D-SLRs, Mobile Phones etc to Shoot, Edit and Share Video on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo
• Anything else our site readers are interested in that’s Digital Video related!

Essentially, the sky’s the limit. I can’t wait to get it all installed!

What I’m currently waiting for, however, is a major upgrade to the site engine – WordPress – which is soon to be lifted to version 3.0. This will provide us with a new bedrock upon which we can build all the other stuff. We’ve been promised this “sometime early May 2010″ so I wait with great eagerness!

If you register with the site you’ll be among the first to know of the changes!

Watch this space, as they say…..

Colin
(SimplyDV Site Owner and Administrator)

Updated: May 5th, 2010