05/06/06 04:03 - 50ºF - ID#30263

Maybe we will win?

I was looking at the other competition for best local blog and I think there is a possibilty of winning. It all depends of how people perceived the meaning of blog. We are more of a blogging community.

I think we have a lot going over

but I think we have some still competition from

and

However, I personally voted us for best local website and I have a feeling lots of the readers did to, so that probably reduced our overall votes in the best local website category.

I honestly cannot believe buffalo.com, buffalohaybars.com and buffalobarfly are on the best website list.

Well, best of luck. See you at the event.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: contest

05/05/06 10:01 - 59ºF - ID#30262

estrip graphic design contest

Get you mini icon work featured on estrip. I am looking for people to create some new estrip emoticons for the chat. If you are interested email me a set of 3 icons and the words or emoticon punctuation e.g. :p you want them to go with max around 20x20px. They can be animated gifs if you want.

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Words: 59
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: design

05/04/06 07:26 - 59ºF - ID#30261

Custom Themes Continued

I saw (e:scott)'s comment about how he updated his theme, so here is the new visual.

I am thinking about adding a preference option to have it "autoplay" a user's theme if they have one made when you are logged in and visit their journal.

Rememeber for even more control there is always the API.

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Words: 60
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: themes

05/04/06 01:03 - 55ºF - ID#30260

Time to make your custom theme

metalpeter

scott

leetee

For instructions on makig yor own custom theme see (e:news,820)

Permalink: Time_to_make_your_custom_theme.html
Words: 26
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/03/06 12:55 - 55ºF - ID#30259

More updates - custom themes

It's been a busy night. You can now edit your own custom color themes.

The color picker comes with no instructions other than these few simple ones.

Open up the custom color control panel by clicking on the color palette icon in your control panel.

To change a color, click on the color in your swatch table.

The color slider widget saves the color into a little palette to grab later, if you want to return to the original color.

Now simple change the slider to change the color. When you have changed enough color you can save your theme.

Image paths such as the background image and hr can both be absolute URLS.

Once you have saved your theme, you can select it from the theme list by clicking on the default face icon in the themes list at the top of the site.

You cannot and will not be able to change the layout, it you wish a different layout, you can use the estrip api.

I will probably update the interface soon but for now it is functional.

Hint: you may need to empty your cache if you find your themes color changes are not taking hold.

Your welcome,
Paul

You can begin butchering my carefully planned designs!

Permalink: More_updates_custom_themes.html
Words: 215
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/02/06 10:57 - 57ºF - ID#30258

New Feature Prevents Journal Mishaps

I added a feature that asks if you would like to save your journal text when you navigate away from your journal in the middle of writing an entry.

You used to just lose all your text if you left your journal in the middle of writing, now it gives you the option to save it. The data is saved until you come back to publish your entry or 7 days have passed.

You welcome,
Paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

04/28/06 08:34 - 52ºF - ID#30257

Customer Authorizarion Form

Here it goes. I have okayed the offical request to get the bumper stickers and received the proofs. Soon we will have 250 stickers.

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Words: 27
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

04/28/06 12:32 - 40ºF - ID#30256

Updated Comments

Comments are officially fixed, now you can even go to the comment page without being logged in and then log in and it remmebers where you are leaving the comment. Sorry about the problems it wa shaving before.

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Words: 38
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

04/28/06 12:12 - 50ºF - ID#30255

Bumper Stickers Ordered

The bumper sticker orders went in today. We will be receiving 250 magnetic bumperstickers in approximately 7-10 business days. Thanks to everyone who donated to the fund.

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Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

04/23/06 10:58 - 50ºF - ID#30254

RSS updates

I updated the rss feeds. Fixed a couple character glitches and moved the address to make them easier to get to. I also added a new feed. RSS is a convenient way to read the strip on without using a web browser. Basically, entries and comments come to you as they happen instead of you going to them. It is also an easy way to syndicate the content on other site or even read it on your mobile phone. Here is a help file for getting started with rss

User Feed
To read a user's journal RSS feed go to
estrip.org/user.rss?u=news

Comments Feed
To read the new comments feed go to
estrip.org/comments.rss

Latest Entries Feed
To read the latest entries on the site go to
estrip.org/latest_entries.rss

New bumper sticker design. I got rid of green after I had to drop the colon and the vertical org thing. Here it is. This is the final as I already sent it - so if you don't like it, it's too late.