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The past 18 months have been quite a journey. It was becoming increasingly obvious that although the HomebizBuzz web site was popular it was getting harder and more expensive to add all the functionality we wanted to and to make the site more community-centric. The other option was to rebuild the site from the ground up, and move the data across.

When we considered the pros and cons, it was obvious the right decision was obviously the latter. However, it wasn't the easy option.

18 months, and blood, sweat and tears later, I think we've achieved a lot - but not yet everything we want to do. While we all knew in theory what the project would entail, I don't think any of us could have guessed how tricky some of it would be.

Deciding how we wanted the new site to look and function was relatively simple. The biggest and most challenging part of the job was importing over a decade's worth of data, including information for over 25,000 users, and making it do all the right things and crop up in all the right places.

We've tweaked and tested, and tried to catch all the bugs - but it's with bated breath we are inviting you in to have a play with the new site, as there are bound to be the odd gremlins that got through.

Going forward though, we intend to catch them all, and bring you an online community like no other, a place you know you can turn to for information, resources, tools and an active community of self-employed business people willing to network, share and help out. We hope you like the new site and spend many happy hours here finding solutions to business issues, networking with other businesses, and growing your business!