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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p><p>I was so impressed with what I got for the money that I thought I should take a short moment to write a post here.</p><p>I am going to launch soon with my installation of vldPersonals, and it is very heavily customized, and I believe is one of the best VLD sites out there. <img src="http://www.vldpersonals.com/forum/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>I just wanted to reassure any potential buyers how efficiently coded the whole platform is. There are variables for 99% of every possible scenario. The referencing and naming syntax is consistent throughout the whole site.</p><p>It took some getting used to, but once you got the hang of it, woah -- it&#039;s easy to work some serious magic. The mods I have done myself, just by figuring things out:</p><p>1) Showing a message post-activation asking them to update their profile and redirecting them to their profile page, the whole way guided. This is a one-time cookie-based message that never appears again for the life of the account.</p><p>2) Setting a maximum number of allowable checkbox selections on a specific checkbox field.</p><p>3) Performing a full visual overhaul, with all icons and graphics completely changed and added.</p><p>4) Advanced customization of specific scenarios. E.g. when a user creates an account, the system sends them a welcome private message. This message, by default, comes in a standard template, so it has a clickable link to the profile of the sender (the website admin account) and a reply button. In order to lock out any interaction with the website admin account, I was able to use code to specifically remove the link to the admin and remove the reply button JUST for that one message.</p><p>This is just a few examples of what I&#039;ve done.</p><p>Bottom line: the source code is very clean, very modular, very consistent, very intuitive. Only the core engine is encoded for copyright protection - everything else is editable to your heart&#039;s content.</p><p>Vlad et al, you guys are truly master coders. Thanks a million.</p>]]></content>
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