Over the last few days, everything to do with PikFolio has seemed to come together nicely. The select a template of the user control panel is working along with about 95% of the site.

Now the only main part left to do is the billing system (the invite system is already working!) and the site will be ready to go into alpha ready for beta testing (and you guys) at the beginning of December.

I am also going to create some teaser and how to videos that will be on the site in a week or two, just to give you an idea of what PikFolio will be able to do.

Although I was busy at the weekend I did manage to get a fair bit done on the new look dashboard and admin panel.

I have also been workin on planning out how the skin/theme selection and editor section will work. It is looking increasingly likely that the initial release of PikFolio will allow the user to edit the CSS of their selected theme as well as uploading a custom logo and selecting the type of gallery you would like your site to use. Actually editing the HTML structure of the theme will not be available from the start but it will hopefully happen in the future.

There are a lot of other features that I’ve been working on which I hope will make even the initial beta release of PikFolio pretty nifty.

My target is to get the beta release ready for Christmas, but this is totally work permitting. I already have a few people with web and photography backgrounds to alpha test the system but I am still looking for people to beta test it. If you would like to do this, please stick your email in the box on the homepage!