încotro » Website updates http://www.incotro.org Romanian Visual Survey Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:58:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Possible downtime http://www.incotro.org/blog/possible-downtime/ http://www.incotro.org/blog/possible-downtime/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:38:51 +0000 Tudor Prisăcariu http://www.incotro.org/?p=974 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.

]]> http://www.incotro.org/blog/possible-downtime/feed/ 1 UI tweaks http://www.incotro.org/blog/ui-tweaks/ http://www.incotro.org/blog/ui-tweaks/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:39:25 +0000 Tudor Prisăcariu http://www.incotro.org/?p=969 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! :)

]]> http://www.incotro.org/blog/ui-tweaks/feed/ 0 Random entries sorting http://www.incotro.org/blog/random-entries-sorting/ http://www.incotro.org/blog/random-entries-sorting/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 16:39:22 +0000 Tudor Prisăcariu http://www.incotro.org/?p=396 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.

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