If you ever owned or wished to operate a Boonex Social Network, don't. Unless you want to dive into code and fix a few things.

The first things first, the ugly home page.

They (boonex, creates of dolphin community) say that they have a "nice frontpage", for as long as you don't wish to have an alternative style or any revenue what-so-ever. There frontpage isn't the best but its not the worst, my ELGG frontpage was the worst, and I'll classify MySpace (my daring competitor

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Okay, I was opening a Social Network site, and decided to use ELGG. Its open source and a lot of people are using it for production. So I thought why not use it.

Here are good reasons not to use the default installation:

• The CSS and Layout is disgusting to say the least.
• The code barely validates.
• You have this odd tool bar on top of everything.
• All the links are on-top of each other.

Here is what I had to do to make my site look New and Improved!

• I created a layout

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So today I decided to check all the functions of this new firorFox add-on. One of the functions renders mobile pages, it takes sites and shows you what it would look like in mobile. So I did the portal.

It looks like, in design I'll have no more restructuring or reprogramming for the portal. Since I use master pages and all my master pages are perfect XHTML Transitional, has no JavaScript, and uses a few images, it was completely compatible with mobile systems. Get this it looks like...

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Finally the Seal Portal now accepts secure connections for preventing your personal information from leaking to a third party person.

The SSL Certificate was registered with the GoDaddy.com Register and snapped into the framework with a breeze. (After a few frustrating moments with my personal certificate. Oh well, I shouldn't be self-certifying anyway!)

Now that the certificate is in place, here is some information on our unique registration process.

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Today marks the Second week of the Seal Portal thus a small anniversary! (Very Small )

Here is this weeks, Bi-Weekly Report:

Latest Additions:

• TheSealPortal.com Domain was purchased and added to our server.
• The SQL database was created on the Seal Portal Server.
• The Design was released for both the pre-login pages and the Adventure pages.
• The ability for seperate user entities.
• The ability for User Creation and Registration - in progress.
• The ability

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