Ready, Set, Go...

I updated the text (copy) on several pages. Thanks Brad and Mike. I also finished up the major groundwork on the stats collection/display for advertisements. Next to do is work on the video. Also, we put out a flyer to try to gain some testers as the goal is to make March the month of testing for the site. We'll have to wait and see how that works out. A little extra tidbit, tikiwade is now official, we became an LLC on Tuesday, Feb 19th.

The Weekend Update

I was able to steal some time this weekend while I was away to get some stuff done. The big one is that I moved the budget from being an overall budget for advertising to being a per ad advertising budget. So each ad will have a dollar limit for spending. I think this makes sense. I also added the ability to renew a listing. I currently have this active for all listings, regardless of user status, this will change to be just a function for tiki pro users, yes we are going to revive the pro user. The user will pay a monthly fee and get some enhanced features to automate some processes.

Added Bens new graphics

I added Bens new thumbs up/down and RSS graphics. They look AWESOME. I also added tooltips to some of the elements on the main page, mostly to see how well they work. I also use the tool tips on the display pages to describe about the thumbs up/down buttons. I stopped displaying the total number of votes. This is easy enough to stick back in when we want to.

I think that I am going to vote right now that Ben create little square buttons just like these for email/contact/Flag/Facebook and Digg;-)

More to come...

Total Re-Design

I am really liking how this is coming along. I still see a few issues with IE, but I think that overall it is looking pretty darn nice. The new colors are implemented throughout, and all the color and style is coming directly from the stylesheet. Please let me know if you come across any problems, or places where the style just plain falls apart.

Another quick update

This was a rather quick update, but a pretty good one

- I reduced the image size on the new main logo (I know I still have to change the community tag line)
- I fixed that flashing thing that happened at the top of some of the pages.
- I set it up so that if you are logged in, and looking at your listing, you will just see an "Edit" button instead of the other stuff like vote and so forth.
- If you are looking at an ad, you will just see vote/social buttons.
- I played around with the new colors a little again
- Ask lister a question now put the reply-to email address of the person asking the question into the email.
- Fixed a bug in ask lister/email friend forms.

New Look!

I went ahead and updated the server. This update was a biggie. The database schema had to change to accommodate for the new advertising model, so I had to drop and re-create the database. Which means that your account and any/all listings that you had are gone.

I also added the new graphics from Ben, they look awesome, and changed some of the colors on the site. I am not sure how they work, I will wait for input before doing anything else with that.

Unfortunately, my to do list has grown quite long, and so I now have more work to do than ever before.