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Daily Update from Your Subscriptions! Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010 Username: ira27snider Latest Updates from TheXangaTeam Personal Search, Customizable Private Pages, and Easier Navigation: a Preview... As promised, we've been working on adding a search box to the private page...  you can see it in the upper left side of this preview screenshot: While we were at it, we realized something kinda neat.  We could offer a theme-like system that lets you customize your private page.  You could easily add a header image, change the main colors, and tweak the links too - like in the following screenshot: If you click the little "customize - new!" link right next to "Update Your Site", you'll see a new set of options to customize the look of your private pages. It works on all private pages that have the same basic layout as the "Universal Inbox" page: subscriptions, messages, feedback log, etc. You can use it to make your private pages look like this: Or this... Or any of these... Or thousands of other looks! These private pages are a little too complicated to work with full Xanga Themes or "Look & feel" settings (though we're working on this one). But with these new, simple customization options - add a custom header, change trim & link colors, etc. - we hope you'll be able to make your private pages feel like home. While we were adding the search box and looking into customizable private pages, we also considered tweaking the navigation a bit to make it easier to find key pages: your subs page, messages page, and private page.  Also, we took out some of the images above the posting buttons - just to make the page seem a bit less cluttered. You can see those tweaks in the screenshot... what do you think? These tweaks also gave us a chance to provide easier links to the photo/video managers...  phew! So in conclusion, these tweaks would allow us to offer: Personal Search right from your private page Customizable Private Pages Easier links to important pages and actions But rather than just spring this on you guys, we wanted to give you a chance to check it out and let us know what you think!  So in addition to the screenshots above, we've made a live demo: click here to try it out! (click the little "customize - new!" link to try out the customization) (don't worry, it won't affect your own site - it's just a demo) We'd love to hear your thoughts, so please check it out and then chime in on the comments. Thanks, Marc Posted 3/25/2010 at 11:57 AM - 76 eprops - 51 comments Latest Updates from featuredweblogs Personal Search, Customizable Private Pages, and Easier Navigation: a Preview... As promised, we've been working on adding a search box to the private page...  you can see it in the upper left side of this preview screenshot: [snip] While we were at it, we realized something kinda neat.  We could offer a theme-like system that lets you customize your private page.  You could easily add a header image, change the main colors, and tweak the links too - like in the following screenshot: More Here... Posted 3/25/2010 at 5:21 PM - add eprops - add comments Gaining Confidence When I was in high school, I had self-esteem issues. Some of them have carried on to the present, but not many. I like to think that I am a strong person now, but no one is perfect, right? Growing up, I never really had a person to tell me the good things about myself. More Here... Posted 3/25/2010 at 6:16 PM - add eprops - add comments Jazzed Up Ramen: The Ultimate Starving Student Dinner   After pulling two all-nighters in a row the last couple of days, I came home from class today and just passed out. I woke up from my epic nap at 10:00 and was absolutely starving. Being too hungry to wait to cook a real meal and not wanting to order in another dinner, I turned to that friend of the hungry student: ramen.  More Here... Posted 3/25/2010 at 8:30 PM - add eprops - add comments

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