Thoos reloaded , or at least relaunched
August 23rd, 2007
OK, so we have been pretty quiet over the past few months. And we have to admit, we have been enjoying summer - biking, running, fishing - but we have also been churning out a bunch of new features. Over the next few weeks, we will write separate articles highlighting many of the new features, but here is the complete laundry list of new features and changes:
New Features
- Member’s goals integrated throughout site
- Member’s personal best times integrated throughout site
- Sortable goals; rank your most important goals and achievements on you profile pages
- Ability to keep ‘Personal Best Times’ private
- Show recent related goals and recent related personal best times in right column of search results
- Added ‘Map View’ to search results so you can get search results in list format or plotted on a map
- See what your friends are up to - Friends tab shows recent goals, accomplishments, and times of your Friends
- Create a map and embed it in your website - very fun stuff!
- Finally added a contact form to the blog
Changes
- New layout - inspired by Digg
- Combined ‘Events’ and ‘Places’ into a new category called ‘Guides’
- New ‘Maps’ page layout with most recently created member-maps
- Use of AJAX to add interactivity throughout the site without the need of page reload
- “See Also” links added to right column of detail pages
- Amazon book links removed - sorry about that mess
- Improved functionality and fixed several bug that kept our Mac friends from using Safari on the site - shame on me
- Fixed nagging Internet Explorer 6 issues - grrrrrrrrrr
- Fixed and improved the JavaScript and RSS feeds for search results
- Show dates of events in search results
- Improved the ‘Add a Guide’ and ‘Edit Guide’ pages for better user experience
- Drap and drop markers when editing maps
- Updated look and feel of weather pages and local forecast search
More to come soon …