Addng images

Build some features into the editing module, so I can add images more easily.

Youtube

Youtube has changed its embedding code - again. Since I started developing on this website it has changed at least four times. Which is a lot, really, considering how many websites out there depend on the embedding code remaining like it is.

Sooo, I had to make the embedding code more robust. Which was long overdue, really. Life just got in the way.

New Background And New Fonts

I was tired of the old background image. although it was very colourful, that was exactly the problem: it was way too crowded and did not seem inviting at all.

I also made the transition from fonts rendered by Typekit to Cufón.

Typekit relied on an external engine and short response times. Often the response time was too high, rendering the page before any font remodelling had taken place and generating a javascript error, crippling all other scripts on the website.

New Layout

Ok, so it's been a couple of weeks now (actually it was on New Year's Day) but I've put a new layout online. It's fresher, more colourful and steadier than the old one. And I'm quite proud of it. I know my designing skills are practically non-existent, so this is actually where I have transcended myself. Cool.

Fixed an issue with an Ajax-function I built. Decided to use the one built into jQuery. Still have to implement it everywhere though.

Mangled Layout

Finally after a long, long time of seeing an intermittent layout bug creep up every once in awhile, I hit it on the head. It was a function that was supposed to strip out the HTML-tags in a string, but had nothing to do whatsoever someplace else.

Somehow it had creeped itself there and made my life miserable.

I fixed it on the test-site, but will fix it on the front page too, because that error was so damn annoying.

Images Revisited

Finally decided to change the way images were displayed. Not everybody is going to click on a shoddy-looking thumbnail heaving in anticipation as to what the big picture will be. Users are lazy and so am I. Besides, if nobody can't be bothered to click, there is no eye-candy, hence no returning visitors.

So I left that nicely overlayed display for the galleries. All the common articles give away their imagy goodness rightaway.

Comment Spam

The last few days have seen in increase in registered users. Though I generally see that as a good thing, looking those users up on the internet yielded suspicious results.

I was intrigued as to why known comment spammers never posted a spam comment via the forms. Then it hit me: my spam-detection algorithm actually works! It was just never implemented in the registration form.

It is now. :)

Front page articles

Changed something on the front page so that only the first paragraph of an article is shown properly.

Adding Pictures III

Fixed a small bug where a thumbnail of a larger image was never added to an article. Stupid, stupid bug.

Buttons

The buttons on the left are now not longer images which have to be loaded every time. I'm using the free version of Typekit.com allowing me to use sexy fonts on my website.