January 2nd, 2009 | News | No Comments
Happy new year everyone!
I am sure 2009 is gonna be a nice year for the web. I would like to take the oportunity to thank everyone that came here for a bit of inspiration or tutorial. I started YSIV as a little project for fun and it turned out to be a great learning experience.
I get more and more submissions each day and some side project benefits from the exposure of the gallery which is far above my expectations. I would definitely recommend everyone that hesitate to start their own website to take the step. Read the rest of this entry »
December 11th, 2008 | News | No Comments
I have started to work on a mobile version of the gallery. It’s a project I’ve always wanted to do and I finaly take the step. Recoding an existing website to make it mobile friendly isn’t such a challenge as I though few month ago.
We’re not talking here about crapy wap 1.0 browser but full xHtml and CSS rendering engine that work kind of like their big browser but on a smaller screen. Of course there are a few things you also need to take into consideration but nothing should scare you. Read the rest of this entry »
December 3rd, 2008 | News | No Comments
Buying stuff as always been a mater of trust for me. If a company as an awfull website or a rubbish business card it just doesn’t work. The image of a company is crucial in its success so here is a quick check list of where you should spend the extra bit to get a proper design. Read the rest of this entry »
December 3rd, 2008 | News | No Comments
As website owner I am always checking my analytics to see how the site is doing. The gallery doesn’t generate revenue and was never meant to but I like work on the SEO anyway, because it’s fun.
Last week was very bad, traffic wise. I lost about half of the visitors I normally get. Luckily I already knew what was wrong. Two weeks ago I implemented the “Random selection in same category” at the bottom of each single site page. Because this website is an experiment anyway I like to develop new ideas straight on the production site. Read the rest of this entry »
November 25th, 2008 | News | No Comments
I am in the process of refactoring all the category in the gallery. I feel that the classification I used from the beginning doesn’t allow users to look for what they want. The new categories will be more about the look and less about the industry.
I have also added the Colour attribute to all newly submitted website which will allow us to search by colour. From the poll and from my personal experience I think search by colour makes more sense when your are designing a new website.
I hope those two changes will be for the best. I will convert each website already in the database to a new category and add the colours for each over the next few days (weeks?).
November 24th, 2008 | News | No Comments
You may have noticed that the flash media uploader doesn’t work anymore. Don’t blame wordpress. The problem comes from the last Flash player update to version 10. This last version brings new security improvement that disallow interaction with flash movies from outside the movie.
This means few web apps that were using flash behind the scene, usually to extend javascript functionalities will have to rethink their interface a bit.
In our case with wordpress a quick fix could be to change the upload button by a flash button. Being itself in the movie, the flash button could trigger any flash event needed.
My fancy UTF-8 special char bookmarklet was using a flash movie to do the copy to clipboard in non IE browsers. Of course this doesn’t work anymore which means I will have to find a replacement for that…
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