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Updates
> Update Archive
> Detailed Changes January 2003
(currently open)
Previous detailed changes to AbleStable®: January
2003
Recent
changes to AbleStable® made over the calendar
month of January 2003 are listed below. Maintenance
entries are in black text, new content is highlighted:
Last change of month made:
30 January 2003
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A new pricing structure has been introduced for Partners
at AbleStable®. A single yearly payment of £500
ensures business products and/or services receive
premium exposure, and Partners renewing their yearly
subscription enjoy a massive 40% cost reduction. Non-profit-making
organisations may apply for free Partner status under
the NPM Partner Scheme. For more, visit Partner
Introduction.
• Special
Offers has been updated with the addition of the
Computer Arts Issue 80 cover artwork.
• Additional link in Registration
to Partner benefits.
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January 2003
• Computer
Arts Magazine (internal link at AbleStable®),
The world's best selling creative magazine from Future
Publishing, celebrates their partnership with AbleStable®
with a special offer for our premium listing for creative
professionals. Creative professionals buying the February
Issue 80 of Computer Arts can receive a 50% saving
on our Showcase Member level. For more on this offer
go to Special
Offers.
• New informational page: All
Articles provides an A to Z listing of Articles
available at AbleStable®.
• New text ('no record is kept of this action')
is added to every article page above the 'email this
web page to a friend or colleague' section. This helps
reassure users wishing to use this service, email
addresses are not captured or used at AbleStable®
without explicit consent.
• New Article:
Creating
Great Web Sites: There are a number of essential
elements that make up every quality web site. This
extended article sets out the main features that go
to produce an unmissable Internet destination.
• News Update
is revised: request our informative monthly email
update delivering news about our site and services.
• Our Press
Centre is improved with the addition of an Artwork
page that presents AbleStable® logos and
screenshots for web and print publications.
• The Projects
Centre has undergone significant design improvements
in the presentation of work projects.
• The context sensitive left hand menu navigation
at About Us and the
related pages under this category have been improved
with the addition of a link to the Press
Centre and 'spacer-lines' to signify separate
categories of our site. We are currently implementing
these 'spacer-lines' site-wide.
• New Freeware:
BK
ReplaceEm, an excellent text search-and-replace
tool for anyone requiring multiple files to be updated
or changed.
• Our Payment Gateway has been updated to reflect
recent changes in the style of our logo. Note: Our
Payment Gateway has now been replaced by our Online
Store.
• The AbleStable® logo has undergone
colour changes to match our page headers site-wide.
We intend the new look to be more pleasing to the
eye and less distracting than our heavier old-look
logo.
• Homepage
header redesigned with our new tag line 'serving the
creative community'.
• A new generic domain name www.creative-community.com
has been added to our domain
name portfolio. When anyone enters www.creative-community.com
in a web browser connected to the Internet they are
automatically redirected to the AbleStable®
homepage. Redirection provides additional paths to
discovering our services and continues to establish
AbleStable® as a leading informational provider
for creative people on the Internet.
• Improved copy on our Introductory
Guide.
• All articles and reviews now enable users to
easily email their friends and colleagues about the
web page they are viewing.
• Creative News:
News Centre:
selected arts and media highlights brought to you
in association with Guardian Unlimited, the premier
Internet news service based in the UK.
• Our Glossary
has been completely updated with many new entries,
a new structure, and a link directly from our homepage
'great content at AbleStable®' box.
• My
Profile (142kb), the page where creative professionals
at AbleStable® update their profile, has
been updated. A service comparison table now reminds
Members of their service status.
• Our
Services: improved copy.
• New Article:
Investigating
Creativity: Dana Brandley interviews Mike de Sousa,
the Director of AbleStable®, and unravels
his motivations and thoughts about creativity and
the creative process.
• New image link on our home page to the Graduate
Service Introductory Page. This replaces the Partner
Quick Tour image link (now accessible from Registered
Users, Quick Tours,
or our Partner
Centre).
• General maintenance schedule including: site-wide
link check; external link check; search indexing;
and server performance monitoring.
• New Article:
The
Perfect Web Site Host: Choosing the right host
for your web site is crucial in assuring its' success.
We provide essential independent guidance that helps
you make the right choice.
• General
Feedback updated.
• Member and Graduate image and text file upload
instructions amended to reflect recent changes below.
To view these changes go to Member:
My Profile or Graduate:
My Profile (instructions vary depending on type
of service).
• New Service:
Graduate
Service is launched at AbleStable®.
• Our Payment Gateway has undergone significant
changes and now provides access to purchase our Graduate
Service. Note: Our Payment Gateway has now been replaced
by our Online
Store.
• New Member Levels:
The introduction of three Member levels: Free,
Portfolio, and Showcase, supersedes our previous
and more cumbersome five level service. Existing Members
opting for paid services at AbleStable®
will continue to enjoy all their current service level
agreements. Go to our Member
Introduction to find out more.
• New FAQs:
Graduate FAQ
section.
• All FAQ pages enjoy improved navigation.
• Our Terms
and Conditions and Privacy
Statement have been updated to take account of
our new Graduate Service.
• All our downloadable Welcome Packs that accompany
our directory services have been updated.
• Our free web site template that accompanies
user Welcome Packs undergoes further testing and minor
improvements.
• Registration
has been improved and updated to take account of our
new Graduate
Service.
• A new Discipline 'Fashion Design' has been
added to the Creative Area Design.
• Our Member
Service Comparison page has been completely redesigned
to reflect the major changes to our Member levels.
• Site Map and
Directory
Index updated to reflect recent changes to our
site.
• A new generic domain name www.creative-graduates.com
has been added to our domain
name portfolio.
• AbleStable's® copyright statement
now reads 'All Material: AbleStable 2002-2008' site-wide.
• Improved error documents ensure in the case
of server errors, our users find the page they're
after faster.
• Page headers are made consistent across the
registered user areas.
• Improved copy at the Press
Centre.
• Updates (this page) and the Update
Archive at AbleStable® are current
for the start of January 2003.
• To view all updates for the month of December
go to December Updates.
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News
about AbleStable®
Partner
pricing simplified (30 January 03)
• A new pricing structure has been introduced
for Partners at AbleStable®. A single yearly
payment of £500 ensures business products and/or
services receive premium exposure, and Partners renewing
their yearly subscription enjoy a massive 40% cost
reduction. Non-profit-making organisations may apply
for free Partner status under the NPM Partner Scheme.
For more, visit Partner
Introduction.
AbleStable® and Computer Arts (28
January 03)
• Computer
Arts Magazine (internal link at AbleStable®),
The world's best selling creative magazine from Future
Publishing, celebrates their partnership with AbleStable®
with a special offer for our premium listing for creative
professionals. Creative professionals buying the February
Issue 80 of Computer Arts can receive a 50% saving
on our Showcase Member level. For more on this offer
go to Special
Offers.
Graduate Service Launched (6 January 03)
• The
Graduate Service specially tailored to the needs
of creative graduates and undergraduates launches
at AbleStable®. Graduates and undergraduates
opting for our Graduates service enjoy a comprehensive
profile page including: contact information; information
relating to degree training; biographical entry, detailed
skills entry; awards entry; business practice entry;
past client list. In addition Graduates and undergraduates
have the ability to present their own work (images
and text extracts that can elaborate on creative products
or services). More Below
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Major
Updates
Graduate
Service Launched (6 January 2003)
• We now offer a premium directory service
to creative graduates and undergraduates.
Graduates and undergraduates opting for our Graduates
service enjoy a comprehensive profile page including:
contact information; information relating to degree
training; biographical entry, detailed skills entry;
awards entry; business practice entry; past client
list. In addition Graduates and undergraduates have
the ability to present their own work (images and
text extracts that elaborate on creative products
or services).
The exhaustive registration process graduates and
undergraduates complete enable prospective clients
to find the right creative person for their needs.
The Graduate pages also act as an important Internet
portfolio for the many people who visit our site from
the creative industries to view graduate and undergraduate
profiles and examples of their work.
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