The last few months has really been quite difficult. There has been a huge expansion of the project and the hwdMediaShare website, and a significant software code re-structure has kept us very busy. There have been some difficult choices to make however, I personally believe we are now in a much stronger position because of these decisions.

We are now preparing to move out of the Alpha stage of development. Many users probably think we are wrong to label the software as Alpha, but this label is not based soley on the immeidate functionality of each release. We have needed to think about the expanability of the code structure. It is only now, after almost 2 years to development, are we happy with the structure. It is very expandable and we are confident we can now move to s production release very quickly. This also includes the development of hwdPhotoShare which has been am important factor in keeping us in an Alpha stage.

So, what does moving out of Alpha mean? It means:

• Greater stability
• Documented changes to template system
• Documented instructions for our plugin systems