As we near the weekend, testing of the upgrade to .Net 2.0 is coming to a close.  Soon, you will be also be able to make this fairly simple upgrade on your Ideal BB.Net forum.  Ideal Science will be providing documentation and support to ease the process of this upgrade. The benefits of .Net 2.0 will be covered in later in upcoming posts.  Have a great weekend! 

Welcome to the new Ideal Science blog based in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas!  I will be posting information on the latest developments of Ideal Science forums but would also like to speak on a range of other topics.  Please feel free to leave replies listing any topics that may interest you. 

In the next few weeks, Ideal Science will be releasing Ideal BB.Net Version 1.6 that will be .Net 2.0 compatible.  This important release includes a new avatar feature that allows registered users to upload a personal avatar.  Also, in response to numerous customer requests, there will now be a ‘how to guide’ for users of the forums.  This document includes everything from creating a post to using the advanced search option.  As always, Ideal Science welcomes any suggestions for future features.  Keep these recommendations coming!  
 

In an effort to reach out to our customers, we present the Ideal Science Blog conveniently located at www.idealscienceblog.com.   This blog will serve as an informal discussion about our products and services.  We’ll post entires that we believe are relevant to the work that we are doing and solicit feedback in the comments left on our blog.  Eventually we’ll move our discussion to our discussion forum.  (We aren’t quite there yet with integration.)

We wrote blog software a little while back that was very basic and allowed us to do a quick integration for a customer.  That software was so basic compared to the products on the market that we abandoned it to focus on the forums instead.  The Ideal Science blog is powered by WordPress and modified to fit the look and feel of our web site.  This might come as a surprise to many of you considering that WordPress isn’t even a .NET product.  We chose WordPress because as far as blog products go, this one is way superior.  (At least in our opinion.)

Going forward, we’ll build official support for WordPress blogs so that our product can easily integrate into a WordPress blog.  I imagine that support will come as a WordPress plug in.

Enjoy the new blog and good luck.