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Category: Updates

BETA Closed & Malware Cleaned Out

Hello! As many of you may have noticed, CustomCMS.net has been on “Malware Alert” over the last week or so. After digging through the system, we found that the most of the script injections were seen in the community & we had to take measures. We took the opportunity to adjust our hosting services, clean up the [...]

A Much Needed Update – Custom CMS Software Limited Corporate Structure Almost Completed

Hello, It’s been several months since our last update & several aspects of the business & surrounding brands have been evolving – from corporate structure, to organization, financing & team. To start things off, in January 2012 we began discussing with a high status law firm that was highly interested in helping us setup a [...]

Cleaning, Documentation & Organization Progress – Database Optimization

Hello! We understand that Couch Gamers can get adopted by high traffic websites, therefore we spent some time focusing on some database improvements such as: Restructuring certain queries which call Couch Gamers data tables. Creation of indexes. This has allowed us to improve how much data a typical Couch Gamers installation could hold, without touching [...]

Cleaning, Documentation & Organization Progress – ERD & Various Diagrams

Hello, Since we’ve entered a “cleaning/documentation/organization/preparation” mode, we’ve had nothing interesting to showcase to our followers & community. We’ve decided to showcase a little preview of what we’ve been working on this week… Thomas is a reworking the ERD & various other relationship diagrams. This will greatly improve as to how we look at the [...]

Couch Gamers BETA 0.9.9 – Template API + Image Properties & Masks + New Skin

Happy Friday Couchers! Notice: Before visiting the Couch Gamers BETA demo page, please clear all your browser’s cache. Another week has gone by with solid progress on the cleaning phase of the product. As we were building the final color-skins for the default platforms these last few weeks, we found a few inconsistency errors. We [...]

Couch Gamers BETA – BETA Portal “Forgot Password” Feature Added!

Hello Couchers! We noticed that it was a big inconvenience for our “Access BETA Portal” to not have a “Forgot Password” system, therefore we recently updated the BETA Portal to new password retrieval functionalities. If you visit the “Access BETA Portal” section, you’ll notice a “Forgot your password?” section in the footer. This system will [...]

Couch Gamers BETA 0.9.9 – BETA Language Kit + New Skins

Hello International Couchers, Notice: Before visiting the Couch Gamers BETA demo page, please clear all your browser’s cache. As promised earlier this week, we’ve completed the English BETA Language Kit. This kit is a simple .XML file that holds all of the phrases used on both the Front End & Admin Control Panel of Couch [...]

Couch Gamers BETA 0.9.9 – English BETA Language Pack + New Skins Coming

Hello Couchers, Following last Friday’s update, we’d like to provide some quick information in regards to our next steps: Release 2 new platform skins. Continuously monitor bugs / minor improvements & create hot-fixes. Release the English BETA Language Pack – which will hold all frontend & backend language masks for 0.9.9. As we’ll be documenting / [...]

Couch Gamers BETA 0.9.9 – Improved Skin, Language & Product Sharing + New Skins

Hello Couch Lovers, Notice: Before visiting the Couch Gamers BETA demo page, please clear all your browser’s cache. This week, Thomas (the lead developer) devoted much of his time to improve the skin / language / product import & export system. As we strongly believe that a strength of Couch Gamers lies with its unique [...]

Couch Gamers BETA 0.9.9 – CSS Cleaning Completed & PC Skin Refreshed

Hello Couch Followers! Notice: Before visiting the Couch Gamers BETA demo page, please clear all your browser’s cache. Following last Friday’s update, we completed the cleaning of the CSS style sheets. As we progressed with the cleaning, we started to realize that there was much unused class properties – and in effect, we needed to [...]