Category Archives: Website updates
Possible downtime
I’m under the nasty feeling that my VPS might be failing me, I tried to go on the site a couple if minutes ago and I couldn’t actually reach it. It was fine after a restart, but the surge in traffic could make the issue come back. If you have been unable to reach the site at a particular time please let me know by email (see contact info in the footer of the page), I might try to upgrade to a slightly more powerful setup to give it some breathing space.
UI tweaks
To coincide with the Survey’s launch, I’ve also been hard at work rolling out some user interface updates which will hopefully improve your browsing experiences:
- Filters have now been added to the survey homepages, making it easier to browser work by medium / kind.
- A paging navigation bar was added to the bottom of the artist pages, making it possible to scroll through the entire survey without having to go back to the thumbnails index.
- The horizontal sliders now display the current image and the total number of images.
- Only the image currently in view is 100% visible.
- Clicking on the current image in a slideshow will take you to the next one.
- The main header menu now shows the section’s children pages on hover.
- Visited links on the main survey page will now turn grey, allowing you to easily keep track of what pages you have visited
- Last but not least, the încotro logo in its ever changing form has now made its way on the Survey pages.
Happy browsing! :)
Random entries sorting
When first launching the website I decided to sort the survey entries alphabetically. Three weeks on, Google Analytics data reveals that people situated towards the bottom of the list get a lot less hits.
As a result, I’ve decided to switch to random ordering (you’ll get a different order every time you refresh the homepage), in order to give everybody a better exposure.
Thanks to Lucian for the suggestion.
Well, I’ve just realized that there’s a major flaw in randomly sorting the artists’ names, as it would be impossible for a visitor to keep track of what he/she has actually seen during one visit. Until I actually figure out how to link Wordpress sorting to session cookies, or come up with a better idea, I’m reverting back to the original form.