Tons-O-Changes (updated)

Sunday, March 4th, 2007 | Site Updates

Today I fixed a TON of site bugs, and added some new features. I am not going to make big long descriptions about them but here’s the list of what I remember doing.

1. Added 85 new artworks, set only them to show up (for now)
2. Added a new “Link of the Moment” section. (This will eventually replace my old links page)
3. Fixed bug that prevented skeleton from loading
4. Fixed “The Fridge”, got rid of ugly white blobs and it now saves what you do again (Your welcome Tom)
5. Upgraded wordpress for BS and added 3 more databases for other sections.
6. Fixed bug in code that prevented IE from changing artwork with the artwork changer gadget
7. Took it one step further, got firefox to be able to use artwork changer gadget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Converted entire “A Smartass Education” section to a wordpress blog for easier management.
9. Added everybody’s user account who is signed up on BS and made you all Authors on ASE!!!!!!!
   1. You can now post your own helpful knowledge to the site without even needing my approval, I know some of you are selfish and want to keep your knowledge to yourselves, but for those who aren’t, this will be a great opportunity. Ask me for details~!
   2. Oh, if you do post one (which you can already), it will currently post to the ASE page only, I have to manually add the links to the page for the moment because of the sexy way the posts are displayed. Tomorrow I will try to find a way to auto-generate my sexy links whenever somebody posts
10. Started work on ANOTHER new section called Smartass Reviews (anybody got a better name?), I got the database created, but haven’t started writing a review yet. The theory is you review something, and then put a link to buy it on Amazon & a link to download it with bittorrent if possible.
11. Converted the BS feed display to be written in PHP instead of Javascript, you may not see difference but now when you click the Home button bs will actually show up, before with the javascript it could not be reloaded into the page so it was just blank. Oh, I also made it a bit wider for the moment anyways.
12. Worked on new structure for smartass, not design, just code structure, however if I finish this project I will be able to make lots of themes and have the themes randomize or perhaps change with days of the week… This is quite a rewrite though, will probably take awhile.
13. Shrunk old design links, I was going to totally eliminate them, but I still want to convert them and I have room on page for the moment
14. Fixed search engine / form display page bug that caused it to sometimes not show up.

Whew. I shall probably be working on site a lot tomorrow since I’ll be up. It’s like 3 am, but I haven’t been tired, which sucks because I am setting alarm for 6am because I need to get used to getting up then for work training which starts early monday morning and goes for 2 weeks. I bought a $5 alarm clock to help piss me off every morning.

Grr, my stupid eyeball is twitching again. Perhaps it will stop when I get my car back looking like a million bucks. well, it will still have trim peace missing even if the paint is perfect it will still be goofy looking ;*(

Update: Everything was working fine when I went to bed.  When I woke up the BS feed wasn’t displaying on the site.  Yes I am doing it a new way, but it should of worked.  Seems that the 2 posts I had that I had re-posted had changed some punctuation to some weird characters and then the feed wouldn’t validate and then would not display.  Odd.  I seem to have taken care of it now.

               

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