"Also, at Malex, I think you should set up a 'public beta' site for the members to play around with and feel for a bit to see if they like it before making it live..." --Vox

Well, I will definitely be inviting a few close friends to inspect my work before we do the big cutover. However, I will not be doing any sort of public beta.

Since the database schema that powers the site needs an upgrade as well, the two codebases will need separate databases. Thus, if we have two versions of the site available, they'll start to get out of sync from one another practically from minute one.

It would be a confusing mess, and even I wouldn't be able to untangle it.

Also, I don't like announcing temporary URLs, because once they become invalid it only causes more confusion.

--Alex Markley

"Crap, I have levitation class at 25:131. Better set the alarm to 'cinnamon'."