ApolloMix

With ApolloMix's upgrade, numerous advanced features have been installed, with the previously existing ones upgraded. Be amazed!

Studio Perhaps the most important new feature of them all, all members are now given their own, unique studio. What is a studio? Well, in simplest terms, a member studio is basically a portfolio of all of the member's interactions on ApolloMix. This includes a list of the sheet music the member arranged, a list of the member's original compositions, and even a list of the member's remixes.

But that's not all.

Member studios are also completely customizable with CSS! Though the studios all have a nice, simple, integrated design by default, nearly all aspects of the studios can be edited. For an example of what I mean, click here. Though I refrained from moving stuff around, I completely changed my studio's color scheme. If you're jealous, don't be: anyone can do it with a little practice!

Furthermore, the studios feature all of the member's forum topics and blog posts. If you are curious as to what someone has been writing about, a quick glance at his or her studio will tell you everything you need to know about the person. If you're feeling exceptionally intrusive, you can even click the "Information" link. (don't worry about your email being exposed to others, though; you can hide it by navigating to your own studio, and clicking "Edit Profile."

Sheet Music You might be asking yourself right about now, "wait... sheet music has always been available!" Well, ask no more, for indeed it has. However, it was not new and improved! With ApolloMix's upgrade, the sheet database has been completely remodeled. Now, not only are the best (starred!) sheets easily viewable by the public, those that have remained unstarred are not penalized... and are just as honored and obvious as the others, excluding the little "star" trophy. Who wants that anyway?

Oh, and by the way. Me, being the little hero that I am, slightly screwed up the featured sheet list during the upgrade, and not all sheets that were featured before are starred now. Live with it; we here at ApolloMix will clean that up eventually.

Soundtracks Not much has changed here. Just some design widgets. (however, the whole backend was rewritten by yours truly for increased speed and performance. Send me thank-you's!

Compositions DING DING DING! WE HAVE ANOTHER NEW FEATURE! A lot of people have wanted ApolloMix to accept original compositions in the past. However, due to the disorganization of the previous site, we never got around to changing that. With the site's recreation, though, let me tell you: new features galore! The composition side of the website is relatively simple (and absolutely lonely!) but should bloom when some of you guys get around to uploading music! Oh, and did I mention that all compositions are sorted into albums? How cool is that?

You should probably note, however, that MP3 uploads only work with smaller files, due to lack of server processing power. We're cheap, we know. Hopefully we'll find a fix for that soon.

Remixes Due to my being lazy, I'm going to give in to lack of originality, and just use the following tag: see above.

Forum The forum has also gone over a complete overhaul. However, that overhaul has a twist. (lol, over-and-under-and-back-around-haul) All sheet music, soundtracks, compositions, and remixes, as well as news updates, are seamlessly integrated into the forum! This is a powerful design technique that allows for maximum feedback on all sections of the site, while also allowing for members to interact in close, peer-reviewed and commented discussions. I know how entrepeneurial that sounds, but hey, I know what I'm talking about.