Over the past few weeks we have been steadily restoring and rebuilding the jTips.com.au website after the problematic data center explosion. However, there is still much left to do. Chief among these are items such as:

• Demo System - you will have access to an interactive jTips demo system which you will also be able to get into the administrator error and see what makes jTips tick.
• Complete Product Listing - there are still quite a few items that need to be added to the Store. We are currently preparing these for publishing. These items include the remaining jTips License Packs and jTips Modules.
• Help Docs and Guides - very soon we will be publishing our first jTips help article - 'jTips 101'. This will provide you with a quick start guide to getting up and running with jTips 2.0.

Please bear with us as we continue to remake the website and make it bigger and better than ever.

However, we've been doing more that just rebuilding the jTips.com.au website - the next version of jTips (code name OneUp) is currently under intense development.

The design of OneUp has been under review for some time now and we can now release that OneUp will be released for Joomla! 1.5 only. Support for jTips 2.0 will continue beyond this time.

Already OneUp makes great use of the new Joomla! 1.5 framework to bring you more powerful, more user-friendly features. Everything for jTips 2.0 will be present in OneUp, and here are a couple of additional new features:

• Password Protected Competitions - let your users run their very own tipping competitions with the teams and details you set up n the administrator area
• KnockOut Competitions - 'pick the right team or your out!'
• One Team can participate in many competitions
• Game Odds - set and display odds for each game
• Plugin Support - add additional scoring systems as they become available!
• And more!

And now for the sneak peeks - we will have more sneak peeks every now and then to continue to introduce new features and aspects of jTips in the OneUp release.

We have renamed 'Season' to 'Competition'

The Competition Manager lets you create new competitions in a similar way that you could create new season in jTips 2.0.

You'll notice the end column, 'Teams'. This link will let you add a number of Teams to the competition. This feature allows one team to be part of any number of competitions! You can also access this feature in the reverse way - from the Teams Manager, you will be able to add a selected team to any number of competitions.

OneUp has a redisigned Configuration are which better suits the Joomla! 1.5 system.

You still have the access to all the configuration options available in jTIps 2.0, with better help and definitions explaining what the option affects.