Friday, May 14

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Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
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Optimizing the Frontpage...

We've just rolled some minor updates to the frontpage to try to optimize a few things.

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In case you're having trouble spotting the specific changes, here's what's new:

  • Showing Longer Titles in the 4-Picture Module - a lot of you pointed out that titles were regularly getting cut off in that module, so we've made the text smaller and moved from just two lines of text to three lines of text for each title. Now you should be able to see the full title for almost all the posts.
  • Moving Top Blogs a Little Higher on the Page - as you can see from the before & after screenshots, the Top Blogs module ends up a little higher on the page after these latest tweaks

But wait, you say... how can you add longer titles without pushing top blogs *down*? Well, we started by hiding those little labels that used to show above the pictures (Parenting, Dating, Beauty, etc.). But because some of you mentioned that you liked those labels, we've used some CSS trickery to make them available - just mouse over any of the pictures and you'll see the label!

Just keepin' y'all in the loop.

 

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Where are you planning to go on your next vacation, and why?
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Car Rental Aside, Adulthood Is Mostly Overrated
Parents, thanks for teaching your kids not to be brats in department stores and that it's not okay to belch so loudly in restaurants unless they also excuse themselves just as loudly.  Thank you for keeping them from acting in ways causing them to appear before Judge Mathis, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Judy, or any of those other judge shows that law school professors abhor.  I appreciate those of you who've taught your princes and princesses the importance of being well-mannered around other adults who might record them on YouTube and make them the scourge of the Internet.  I have no kids, so I won't presume I know what more you could do to teach them the ways of maturity, except to make one suggestion that may not even have anything to do with what you've done or not done to fashion them into contributing members of social security... I mean society: 

Please tell your kids that it's okay for them to be kids. More Here...
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I Used to Be Ugly
Growing up, I was the ugly kid. Or at least that is how my peers made me feel with their constant taunting and nasty words. They may have been correct in calling me ugly. I was chubby, pimple-ridden, and most of all, had the most terrible style of dressing.

Exhibit A More Here...
Posted 5/13/2010 at 2:25 AM - add eprops - add comments

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Thursday, May 13

Weekly Neighborhood Update - 5/13/10

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Weekly Neighborhood Update

A neighbor has updated this week. Here is the most recent...

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Celebrating National Hamburger Month

I don't know where people come up with these things, but thanks to the Internet, I just learned that May is National Hamburger Month. And who am I to NOT celebrate such a monumental occasion? It seems this holiday was... Read more »

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Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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It's the small things in life like...
..the last piece of salmon sashimi.

...extra buttery popcorn.

...natural highs.

...friendly sarcasm.

...being lipid deficient.

...taking a photo and realizing it came out better than expected on the PC.

...game-winning shots in basketball.

...cool-looking hair on gals.

...the sugary milk left over from frosted cereals. Or even better, the sugary-milk from Rice Krispies (that's if you sprinkle sugar onto your RK's). More Here...
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Tuesday, May 11

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Which Xangans (or strictly online friends) would you love to hang out with in real life?
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Saturday, May 8

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Date: Friday, May 07, 2010
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Cleaning up... Footprints!

As we continue to work on the new customized private home page, we're taking the time to clean up some related features and pages that could really use a little TLC. First up: Footprints.

Over the last week or so, we've rolled a bunch of fixes and updates for Footprints:

  • Better Bot Filtering - we've updated our filtering system so you should see far fewer footprints from random bots
  • Cleaner "Page Visited" - most of the links in your "Page Visited" column should now have an easy-to-read format like, "Weblog: Cleaning up... Footprints!" (or whatever the actual title of your post was)
  • Shorter "Referrer" URLS - we trimmed some extraneous data off the links in the "Referrer" column so you should be able to see more useful info about the links that are sending folks to your site

To see these updates in action, just visit your Footprints page.

Happy Friday Everyone!

 

Posted 5/7/2010 at 4:56 PM - 58 eprops - 31 comments


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The Power of NO
There is a facebook page called IF I SPOKEN TO MY PARENTS HOW KIDS TALK NOW DAYS I`D BEEN KNOCKED OUT[sic]. Several of my friends have joined, and I'll tell ya, this is a big issue for me.  Now, I don't promote the old adage "Children should be seen and not heard," but I definitely believe children need to learn to respect grownups.  This isn't about adult power-tripping, it is about basic safety and respect for others.  

All too often at the grocery store or the mall, I see kids running out into the parking lot unfettered, kids that hit their parents in a tantrum, kids that scream for attention when their grownup is talking to another grownup.  And you know who is power-tripping? More Here...
Posted 5/7/2010 at 2:50 PM - add eprops - add comments

Facebook status updates

I don't know what it is about my generation, but we have a warped sense of duty to let hundreds of people know our business. There are hundreds of types of Facebook users that update that statuses in embarrassing fashion. More Here...
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