The last few days I’ve had a break from working on Sokial; had to get some other things sorted first. But prior to that I really dug in to the core of the code and have made quite a few changes to how I originally planned it. The code is now ‘module’ based if you like; meaning that every (well most) feature/element of the sites functionality can be enabled/disabled as required. Doing this means I have much more control over the code so if there are ever any problems (I’m sure there will be a few bugs) I can get it sorted as quick as possible. The new code also makes use of a nice templating system to output everything to the browser so the design could in theory be changed in a matter of days (if I worked in it full on) without any real hassle.

I’m also going to be implementing some pretty advanced customization options for the users profile. Again I’m not giving too much away right now but they are pretty cool.

I would like to thank all of those who have entered their email address into the temporary Sokial page. In case you don’t know - by entering your email address you will be contacted just prior to launch and will be given the chance to be the very first public users of Sokial. A lot of you will also be chosen (if you want to) to be beta testers and then in a few weeks/months time even become staff.

I’m really looking forward to getting this project up and running live and I’m sure quite a few of you are too. Thanks for your support.