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LinkTogether.com Launches!

Network Solutions just launched a new Beta community portal that I'm pretty excited about.

Web Developer Community for Designers, Developers, and Coders | LinkTogether

As the title suggests, this site is for web professionals of all varieties.  Unlike MySolutionSpot, which is for business professionals and marketers, and the more general Network Solutions Forums for clients using our hosting or e-commerce products, LinkTogether addresses a specific need and community. 

What I really like about the image featured on the home page is that it shows a bit of the behind-the-scenes process of creating and building LinkTogether prior to it's launch.  You have a conceptual whiteboard with the current features "Today" and the roadmap spelled out in "Next Steps." 

I'm not in a department that deals with the LinkTogether planning and development, but the great thing is that this niche community will grow itself and is already getting some active members. I can't wait to see where this will go.

If this new community sounds familiar, it was originally posted about on Solutions Are Power. Go check it out!

UPS Worldship in Version 7

Anyone looking for a way to continue to use UPS Worldship in Network Solutions E-commerce version 7 should see the following recent forum thread: Ups Shipping CSV to XML. It seems that the instructions posted in the last post might be able to get this to work. Obviously, since it relies on a third party converter tool, this is not really a supported feature. But for the time being it might prove useful.

Migration Checklist [PDF]

The migration checklist file has been updated. Get it if your site has not yet migrated!

Migration in Full Swing!

If our e-commerce clients have not yet migrated from version 4 to version 7 as of today, it is highly likely that they will soon. Here is some updated information on our Network Solutions E-commerce Support Site, as well as some new Technical Documentation and Frequently Asked Questions.

It's busier than it has ever been right now. But despite the heavy pace and longer than normal hold times, we are doing quite well based on what I can see.