Young Composers Next Generation

I should have sent out this email two days ago, but I was monitoring the new site for a few days to make sure the second launch was a success. So far it seems to be! Here are some important pieces of information, in order to get started. Please don't mind the promotional talk (in bullets), some of this is going to be sent as a mass email in the near future.

• You will now login through our homepage. The homepage is redesigned so that it acts as a gateway to threads on the forum and new music uploads.
  
• Our biggest attraction is our forum, and we did not forget that. Thus, the forum is better integrated with our network features.
  
• An IM system has been implemented into the entire site, even on the forum. IM your Young Composers friends anywhere on the website, and even engage in realtime group discussions!
  
• Our new intelligent system now categorizes and keeps track of your music uploads and reviews! Never scour through the forum again looking for that old submission! Discover new music using our layered navigation music directory. Find exactly the type of music you are looking for, and you can easily contact, "friend", IM a person or "favorite" a piece of music.
  
• Do a reverse search, and find specific people who compose in the style you love. Check out our advanced browse feature.
  
• If the directory isn't your style of searching, use our patented custom search engine to find music, or forum threads.
  
• Participation at Young Composers rewards those who:
  
  • post regularly in the forums,
    
  • write or edit our wiki content,
    
  • are long-term and valued members,
    
  • become staff,
    
  • post new media and review others' work.

  [*]The more you participate, the better your "member rank" and more visible your music, profile and threads will become!

  [*]Regular members will receive 100 megabytes of space. If you wish to become a reviewer, talk to staff and we will increase your space from 100 MB to 800 MB. Furthermore, a paid subscription plan will increase your user space as well.

I hope you all enjoy the new changes. While I have encountered many obstacles throughout the years and made my fair share of mistakes, the end result is really all that matters, and I hope the end result is finally something a little better than what we had in the past. I know a few people on here may really dislike the new changes, but I have to stress that this website is NOT a typical social networking site if you were to take the time and dig through it. The people of Young Composers are very intelligent and ambitious, and in this community for a very solid purpose. Although the site does have greater social networking capabilities, it is highly custom tailored to our needs, and finally expands past "just a forum."

In conclusion, there may be a few more things going on, but for the most part, we are complete with our launch. The rest is up to you. If you are pleased with the Young Composers community, please help me spread the word about Young Composers. Oh, and depending on if I receive donations/subscriptions, I will continue to improve Young Composers throughout the years to come. Here's to the community, and to our future...wishing us luck. :)

so because i'm profile-less does this mean i'm profile rankless?

Everything looks pretty good now, finally ... god for you :thumbsup: (and for us)

• Regular members will receive 100 megabytes of space. If you wish to become a reviewer, talk to staff and we will increase your space from 100 MB to 800 MB. Furthermore, a paid subscription plan will increase your user space as well.

Many will say "I wanna be a reviewer" just for the space but they won't do the Reviewer's job, why don't you invent something like "Privileged Member" separated from the rest but without responsabilities, people run away from that...

Finally!

Looks great, Chopin! Kudos!

I'm not sure if this should go in this, but something I noticed about the new layout is that in Safari the tabs for "Music" "Forum" and "Music & Forum" don't display correctly. The text is overlapping and outside of the tabs.

Can you provide screenshots?