SeaDooSportBoats.com: SeaDooSportBoats.com Version 3 Launched - SeaDooSportBoats.com

Well a new year brings lots of new features and a fresh new look to SeaDooSportBoats.com, we are excited to announce that this weekend we launched version 3 of the website. Over the years we have continued to evolve in efforts to bring the latest technologies and features to our website -- we believe this is what sets us apart from the rest. With this new version we focused our efforts on creating a more usable design and emphasizing the most important resources such as the forums, manuals, galleries and wiki.

Homepage
The new homepage has been scaled back to make it more readable, it includes the following features:

• Lastest SDSB news
  
• Random gallery images
  
• Recent posts from the forums
  
• Vendors latest offerings

Forums
The new forums have been re-designed, some exciting new features to mention are:

• Improved forum structure to improve navigation
  
• Improved search functionality
  
• Multiple authentication provider support (facebook connect, openID, Windows Live, and Native)
  
• Improved member profiles
  
• Status Updates
  
• Hooks that can expand/collapse on forum main page

Manuals
The manuals section was also re-designed to include these new features:

• Friendly URLs
  
• Resume breakpoints toggle
  
• Download sessions
  
• Major changes to file storage
  
• Usability improvements

Gallery
The gallery was re-designed to include these new features:

• Friendly URLs
  
• Category/Album covers
  
• Sub albums
  
• Profile picture album
  
• New slideshow functionality

Blogs
The blogs were re-designed to include these new features:

• Efficiency and extensibility
  
• Categories return
  
• UserCP improvements
  
• List view returns
  
• Dynamic sidebar block
  
• RSS imports

This is just fraction of the changes that we are introducing in this new version. There really is just too many to list them all so please explore the new website and discover all the changes for yourself.

Please bare with us as this is a major release, we have plans to move to a new server soon so we will potentially have a bit of downtime during this transition too. Feel free to provide any feedback and/or report any bugs that you may find via the forums. Thanks, keep on doo'ing it!