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Posts Tagged ‘update

New tabs, crop interface, server…

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 [...]

Background Image Bugs, Image Quirks, Upcoming Features

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 [...]

Nine New Fonts

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!

New Font Picker

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 [...]

Lots of Updates

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 [...]

FAQ Update – Categories Added

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.

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Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

Posted by: Corey on: April 16, 2009

Our privacy policy and terms of service are now linked from most pages of the site.
Do to the current economic conditions, ads have been re-added to the homepage. Additionally, updates to the website are on hold while the sustainability of development on the website remains an unprofitable venture. Services will continue to be available for [...]

Fancy New FAQ (huge improvement)

Posted by: Corey on: March 15, 2009

Okay the FAQ has long needed some additional work, and I found some time this morning to put that work in. Here’s a list of the updates:

Easier visibility. When you click on a question at the top of the page, all of the question/answers at the bottom disappear except for the one you clicked on. [...]

Better Organized Font Picker

Posted by: Corey on: January 31, 2009

Not really a HUGE change, but definitely one that I’ve been eying for quite a while. The font picker now lines the samples up in tidy little rows and columns so they’re easier to traverse. Plus I updated a tidbit of JavaScript related to the picker that should boost performance a slight bit (less reading [...]

Disabled banner count in account dashboard

Posted by: Corey on: December 7, 2008

It’s been causing some issues when you have zero banners under your account, so it’s disabled until I have the time to go back and add it back in. It’s not exactly a priority at the moment, though.