Posted by: Corey on: August 16, 2009
The usual rapid-fire style…
We’re sporting some new tabs that are faster and require fewer requests (plus they’re smaller file size).
We’ve torn out the old crop tool for a totally different one.
For the few members that noticed it existed, we squashed the pesky little bug where your crop was totally inaccurate.
We switched to Rackspace from The [...]
Posted by: Corey on: July 20, 2009
Okay so some of the updates promised by the last post are still in the works, but are going to take a bit longer. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from users and we’ve focused our priorities on pushing out a completely re-thought interface. Multiple images, images inside banners (not just as backgrounds), drag and [...]
Posted by: Corey on: June 13, 2009
We found out that GIFs weren’t working for a lot of people, and PNGs for a lot of others. We hacked together a fix, so now things should be working better with background images of all types.
Nothing has changed here, but we realized we were having some issues, so we’re going to disclose them here.
PNG [...]
Posted by: Corey on: June 11, 2009
In our usual fashion…
Color Picker Updates
Moved the color picker buttons up to the text lines so it’s more intuitive and easier on the scrolling.
Changed the content of those ‘buttons’ to show the current hex code of the color, making it easier to get several to match.
Put a background behind the color picker so that dragging [...]
Posted by: Corey on: June 11, 2009
I just added 9 new fonts to the banner maker, including long-time designer favorites like Meta, Georgia, and LTUnivers (the movie poster credit font), 2 grunge fonts, and a few other ’special’ fonts. Check ‘em out!
Soon we’ll be adding VIP-only fonts, but all of the fonts that I just added work for everybody!
Posted by: Corey on: June 10, 2009
We’ve got a new Font Picker up and running on the site. It works the same basic way, so nothing too drastically different, but we’ve got new ‘Sample’ swatches and a better layout to make picking a font less ugly, and new code to speed things up (and improve reliability). One of the coolest parts [...]
Posted by: Corey on: June 7, 2009
Just a quick post here to note the changes:
Changed the header/logo and navigation at the top of the page to something much prettier.
Updated the text of some of the navigation items so that they’re more clear.
Changed the default font from Tahoma to Helvetica Neue.
Changed the look of headings on the page to be slimmer and [...]
Posted by: Corey on: May 13, 2009
The answers on a lot of the FAQ’s have been updated, and now the FAQ page has categories that should make it easier to find answers to the questions you’re looking for.
Posted by: Corey on: April 30, 2009
Starting with the petty stuff, I cleaned up the code so it is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict. This won’t really make much of a difference for most people, but it should make a marginal difference in speed due to, well, geek stuff.
I moved the VIP signup ad above the banner preview so it’s not [...]
Posted by: Corey on: April 29, 2009
I started MyBannerMaker way back in 2005, as a bit of an accident. Back then it was called Myspace Banners, since that’s what everybody was using it for. Somewhere along the lines, though, I lost sight of the fundamentals of what the website started as.
It was fueled and driven by user-input back then. Users would [...]
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