So, first off, "NO" it's not happening live yet. :-) However I did get a fully functional version of swag running on my local machine today, and have begun the process to upgrade swag to the newest versions of EVERYTHING. Now what that actually means? I'm still working on that a bit, but I think it will be a really great stepping stone towards helping swag to grow and mature to that next phase as a site.

With that said, I'm going to outline some of my specific goals for the site right now:

1. First and foremost, I want to make SWAG more inclusive. What that actually means is that we're probably going to start up the Community gallery again. I'm actively taking steps to make this happen right now.
2. Second: Forum improvements. Drupal's come a long way since I put this site up, both in general, and also specifically the forums. We'll be looking to get some nice improvements there.
3. Third: Administrative Flexibility. I have a lot of that already, but I've personally learned a lot about how a Drupal site SHOULD be setup since I originally built SWAG, and I'll be taking that knowledge, and making better use of it than I have in the past. This should allow me to more easily accomplish things like "Featured Art" and the like.
4. Forth: Search Engine Optimization. As I said, I've learned a lot about Drupal since I setup SWAG initially, and included in that is some SEO savvy. Suffice it to say, SWAG has some great Search Engine Placement now, but I think I can improve upon it in a pretty significant way, and we'll be trying.

There are a number of other things I hope to achieve with this upgrade, but these are the 4 I wanted to share. I also hope to put some nice touches on the existing theme to make the site a bit more user friendly, but that's kind of gravy IMO at the moment. Hopefully you all will get to actually see some of this in the next 2-4 weeks, but I wanted to at least make everyone aware that it was happening. Thanks for staying tuned, and I'll keep you all updated!

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