In line with our commitment to continually improve and update the
Automated Home website, we have just re-launched with a brand new database
powered system.
Here are the top 10 new features and improvements on the
site!
1.STORIES ARCHIVE
It's now much easier to navigate to old stories. Everything is available listed by
month
right back to 1996.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/archive.html
2.IMPROVED SEARCH
The new search facility is much more comprehensive than last one and
in
testing finds many more results.
In
addition to searching stories it can pull results from the comments fields
too.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=Search
3.NEW "TOP 10" SECTION
Now you can easily see which are the most read stories on the site.
In
addition, with the new voting system, you can rate stories and system will
keep
track of the highest rated results.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/top.html
4.UPDATED AVANTGO PAGE
The AvantGo page now includes pictures and the entire story, not
just the
intro text. You’ll need to edit your AvantGo setting – changing link depth
to
“1” and turning pictures on.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=PocketPC
5.DOWNLOADS
The new improved downloads section has more items and is better
organised. I hope to add some
more
categories and files here over the coming months too.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/downloads.html
6.SUBMIT NEWS
It's now easy for anyone to submit their own story for the
site. If you have an interesting story or
press release simply post it to the site for our editors to
consider.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/submit.html
7.FORUMS
Forums have never really taken off in the UKHA community because the
mailing list is so strong. But
here’s a new set of Forums to try.
We’ve added a few areas like “X10” and “Buy and Sell”, if you have
any
suggestions for new forums let us know.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums
8.USER ACCOUNTS
If you are one of the people that regularly post comments to the
site
then take a minute to setup a free account (the same account is used for
the
Forums).
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=new_user
9.NEW BACKEND RSS NEWS FEED
You can use the headlines from Automated Home on your own website
with
the new Backend feed.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/backend.php
10.NEW LOGO
Meet "Otto" the new logo and mascot for the Automated Home
site!
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/images/temp/new_logo.jpg
We hope you like the new site.
If you have any comments or suggestions please email us on newsite@xxxxxxx
Thanks!
