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In this first tutorial we'll explain what a skin is and how to create a new skin for your site.

Once you purchased and installed Etano community builder on your server, the next step should be changing the default look&feel so your site would look differently than the rest. You could make changes to the default skin directly but it is preferable to create a new skin and make changes there so you could later compare the two or even switch between them if needed.
Also, you will need a new skin if you want to have your site in 2 languages: a skin would be for the first language, the second skin for the second language. Of course, you could have any number of languages on your site, not only 2.

A skin is made up from 2 parts:
 1. The html files (and graphics and styles).
 2. The language files with translations of every message of the application.

To help you create a new skin we made a helper plugin that will take one of your existing skins and clone it.
Not only that but will also ... read more

One more update to go and we switch to beta. I know I said we'll switch at the begining of the week but we were unable to. There was a last minute issue that delayed us (and still needs attention).
The online/offline icon is now displaying the correct information and the alt/title attributes of images/links will tell you if the member is online or offline (where possible).
There are 5 features remaining for the next update and we're done:
1. the installer. Testing on this demo site is possible without installer but in order to test it on your own server we need to create the installer.
2. subscriptions/payments handling - that's the problem that delayed us. There are some situations that weren't properly handled like, for example, what happens when a new subscription is purchased/payment made while another subscription is active.
3. favorites delete scripts
4. db backup scripts in admin panel
5. db optimization script. That's something we have to do to keep the database ... read more

There's been some time since my last development news so I thought I should bring everyone not involved in the forum up to date.

We had a week of delay because my credit card was "hacked" and all money taken from it.
Since I am such a control freak, development was slow without me around.

To solve the problem of the private member items (photos, blogs, videos, etc) which is an underdeveloped feature right now I proposed a simple solution to our customers: friends should have access to private items, others should not. Of course, this lead to 3 pages of answers over 2 days and the discussion still going strong. Opinions are split but most appear to agree with a default simple solution which could later be expanded with an addon for Etano community builder. Social network ... read more