Why the name change??
I have recently changed our hosting package, and unfortunately as it is a US based company I was unable to use a .co.uk domain for hosting. Due to this I had to sort out a redirect for the ddrextreme.co.uk domain, and tbh it looked rather untidy how it did it - it felt cheap and nasty and not really something I wanted associated with the site we have built over the past few years.
Also, as a site, we have changed since the beginning of the forums in May 2004 - we have had numerous competitions, each time changing the structure to better them, creating a perfect home for some of the community's best simfile makers. Also, DDR as a whole has also changed from where it was back in the day, and due to how things have changed and how the site has grown up I wanted a name to try and embody this. Hence DDREvolved.com was born.
I know that this came as a bit of a shock to many, and I admit I failed with a couple of the redirects
I hope that everyone will warm to it over time - as it is here to stay now and will be a huge backbone in getting the site back up to full function - and enable us to advertise and spread the word to gain new members and more activity.What's gonna change now?
Well, the community feeling that we have here is what I want to keep - as I feel this is what makes this site special. If I can build from that and expand then that will be great. The site was made to get people of the same interest together and I built it with the members in mind - so please feel free to let us know what we can do to make it better - either new things, or tweeks to existing stuff. Or maybe even if there is something that you feel is pants - let us know why and what you feel could be done to improve and I will do my best to make it so!
You will have hopefully noticed a new portal by now - it is a bit of a basic portal - but it does everything we need! It fits in perfectly with the forums and is very user friendly, so I hope this will allow new visitors/members to find everything easily and entice them to stick around.
Competitions: The past, the present and the future:
Comps are what put us on the map - and that is something that will definately remain. In the past I have had to restrict downloads due to my hosting package limitations, however, I basically have no limits as far as storage space and traffic is involved - so all of our past competition packs will be re-uploaded for ALL MEMBERS to download.
Making a downloads page of some sort will be my next task - but for the moment they will all be listed in threads in a special forum.
Right, think that I've gone on enough for the moment. All I want to finish by saying is sorry that I've not been around much lately and sorta left the site to suffer with the just the forums and that pants homepage thing, but I have a lot of energy and more time now I've settled in my new house - and will be using a great deal of that to make this site even better. We have a perfect foundation to start from - the members, our community and our competitions, so it's only onwards and upwards!
tovus
