Most importantly, after a significant amount of work - the stores system is now functional! If you have ever considered starting an online store, now is the perfect time.

The registered user's control panel has also been enhanced, with a simplified panel home (no "recent ads" shown anymore - and less buttons and text everywhere), and a more powerful ad management page.

The ad management page now supports bullk operations performed on items via a checkbox next to each item in the list and an "actions" dropdown, and provides more information about ads.

A "status" field is now attached to each ad in the Safarri database, and this allows Safarri to different between Unsold, Sale Pending, Sold, and Deleted ads. Safarri used to use a binary field to determine if ads were sold or not, but the new sytem is far more flexible.

Safarri Stores now have the option of showing sold ads, which are marked with a big red "Sold" badge and really generate interest in the items you have that are still available!

The "Action Ribbon" (with links such as Back and View Category) has been removed from all the ad viewing pages, and is now replaced by a much more elegant system of contextual messages with embedded links based on what you are doing with the ad.

The ad slideshows have been greatly enhanced - with support for up to sixteen pictures and a "maximize" button which allows people to view the original full size pictures you uploaded to Safarri for optimum detail.

Several bugs have been fixed in the submission system, the "More Ads By User" box at the bottom of all ad pages is now linked to a special "User" browse filter to allow people to see only your ads, and the Messaging system is being tuned right now to make it as streamlined and as intuitive as possible.

As always - your feedback is appreciated!

-Aubrey