The last week has been very crazy. On Monday the Hard drive in my main desktop died. So went and bought a new 250 Gig to replace it and then copied all my Backup data back on to it. Most of the day gone! An interesting aside, Costco in the States had 400 Gig drives on sale for $99. Wow, that is 25 cents per Gig, only a few years ago they were $2.50 per Gig ($99 for a 40 Gig). Thats 90% less! I hope the people making Ink/Toner for printers is watching!!

I have been meaning to fix the problem with the Bridge software not working for some Reps. Some Reps can register fine and post to Forums right away and other can Register but can never login. I got the new Bridge software but then found out it only worked with the new version of SMF (the Forum software) which ment I would also upgrade the Forum software as well (much bigger job). So I put it off for a couple days. Then I found out there is a new version of Joomla (the content management software used on site). So now I would have to upgrade Joomla first. I use several modules (add-in software) with Joomla so I had to wait for these to be upgraded (only 3 needed upgrades). Well the third one took over 72 hours to get which delayed everything even more.

Finally Friday I waited till late (so site is not as busy) and started. Well most of it went great, but not all of it. Had to uninstall and then reinstall one of the new modules but finally got site up and running (after 3 hours of work). I still need to change the Theme graphics and make a couple minor (I hope minor ) changes to PHP code to have Forums looking good again.

If you are one of the Reps that can’t login and this fix does not seem to work email me and I will delete your old account so you can sign up again. It has to be deleted as Forum software won’t allow two accounts with same email address.

I plan a new version of MBA for Avon for end of September. It will allow for multiple uploads to Avon website so you won’t have to save all your Orders for one upload per campaign. I also have a cool little enhancement that applies mostly to USA Reps that I should have put in along time ago.

All this means the Watkins Software is stalled but hope to be back on track with it in a few days.