Well, it’s almost a year into the development of the new site… many neat things are happening which are making me extremely excited about the possibility of a launch in the near future.  We’ve been working on the payment gateway/shopping cart script, which is a farily complex script in itself, but this is what has me so excited.  I mean, the next step is debugging, right?! lol

So, as the launch date approaches I’ve had the userbility folks take a look at both the front-end and back-end of the site to see how we can improve efficientcy… for the sake of simplicity, I initially kept all of the database tables inside one database, but since we are now using a class to access the database we now just create objects of the database class and then set the connection properties so that we can compartmentalize the information into a better organized, and efficient operation.  I tell ya… the speed of the script increased dramatically just from that one change.  I think this will also allow for a much easier integration of our analytics script.

In other news… Chris Kirkpatrick [Nigels 11, N'Sync] had yet another awesome party at his house over Labor Day so more networking took place.  What a guy… I tell ya.  Finally got a picture with him, but I’ll refrain from posting it here as I’d like for this blog to be somewhat professional in nature. lol

So when is the launch date?  Everybody’s asking this… I can’t say right now… it’s not that it’s some secret, it’s just that we still have a lot of stuff to do, along with plenty of testing, so I’d like to not speculate on a launch date as of yet.