Everything Great is *Nixbased

Since my last post alot has happened. First off the forum I was upgrading I no longer am associated with. Alot of lies were spread about the situation by some people (intentional or unintentional with some I do not know) but out of it all came a new forum started by myself and my buddy Sammy from Sammy Gregg Reptiles. The new forum is located at http://www.thereptilerack.com/.

The forum is based on phpBB3 and canverPortal as I learned a great deal about it during the last project. I decided to go with some standalone knowledge base software called KnowledgebasePublisher and scrap the gallery idea all together. Between Sammy and myself we have added many mods for various things like custom profile fields, SEO, quick reply etc. We are also planning an arcade modification when the one we are looking at gets validated by the phpBB3 team. We are also doing very well so it is all working out great.

I did run across a new site as well which is pretty neat. The site is http://reptilegeeks.com. It is a social networking site similar to Myspace or Facebook but targeted at the reptile community. It seems kinda fun, I’ve only been a member for a day or two but the flash games and all the new content give me something to take my mind off of other projects. If you wish to add me as a friend my profile is located at: http://reptilegeeks.com/Tuxx.

Also recently some news has come up about the possible banning of Boas and Pythons in the USA. The thought of that happening is scary to say the least. So many reptile keepers and breeders would be shut down if that happened and the industry thrown for a big loop. Everyone in the industry stands to lose something if this idea makes it into the law books. The impact would be incomprehensible. For more information on that topic check out http://www.thereptilerack.com/reptile-law/topic135.html. We are doing our best to stay on top of that topic and will post any new information as it becomes available.

In other news I’m working on changing up my business strategy this year to fill a hole in the market that I’ve noticed recently. I won’t say what it is quite yet but I will say the future holds some interesting changes. Until then I’m closing Herpfeeders to work on said changes. Everyone with orders in will get what they ordered as usual but we will not be accepting any further orders until the mystery changes have been made.

I’m off for now, I have many things to do and not enough hours in the day to do them.