I've implemented some major site changes under the covers.

These changes affect the way you reach the forum and read pages on the main site.

Forum

When you click on the 'Forum' link from the main site, you will now reach the 'usual' forum area via an interstitial (or gateway) page. This page will redirect you in 2 seconds to the normal forum area that you are used to.

If you do not have JavaScript enabled, you will have to click the link provided to be explicitly referred to the forum proper.

This change has been made so that Google (and other search engines) can index the site to its full depth, which it would not have been able to do previously due to the structure of the URLs (which were, for the technically minded, query strings to a .php file, which indexing robots are repulsed to some degree by).

Main Site

Some of you will have noticed the bizarre syntax of the URLs on the main site. These URLs previously looked like this:

index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=31&MMN_position=26:26

Unwieldy, no? Unfortunately these were a consequence of the content management system (CMS) I am using. But I've fimplemented a solution that allows 'under-the-covers' URLs like the example above, and also 'friendly URLs', which masquerade as HTML pages but map to the long URL on the server side.

So, the previously horrid URL can now be

poker-tracker-part-one-page31.html

In fact, since I'm only using the 'pageNN' bit to make the translation between the two formats, you can actually substitute the 'poker-tracker-part-one' text with absolutely anything you like! For example these all map to the same underlying page:

excession-article-page31.html
PokerTrackerPartOne-page31.html
PT_Part1-page31.html

Clever, huh?

Again, this was implemented because

(a) Indexing robots would not like the old format
(b) The old format was crappy for people wanting to post links to livepokerforum.com to other places (e.g. excession and his PokerTracker post)

*** Please Report Problems ***

I think I've tested fairly thoroughly, but please report any problems via this forum (reply to this thread).