the bibli.ca blog

At the past couple of days, I got some excellent input from Tom Carpel, Bill Lazar and Dean Nehama. Following their input, many little fixes were introduced, among them are:

• Changed the tag cloud to be more spaced out - thus readable
• Dean pointed out that the margins are empty. Hence, the "sidelines" were introduced. Sidelines are bits of text that anyone can add (even non-registered users). These appear at the margins in the explore and creation pages (for instance: friends / choco man)
  

technorati tags: bibli.ca, creative writing, updates, guy tavor, short stories, essays, poems, novels,

Homepage navigation was changed, thanks to Bill's and Brian's input.

Homepage is much wider now.

Each user have her own "description" that show whenever others are seeing that user's profile. You can change your description (and buddy icon) by logging in, clicking on "your settings".

Read more at bibli.ca/library

bibli.ca is hosted by textdrive, so is tavor.us.

TextDrive (TxD) has a lot of buzz around it, as it is used by many propminent bloggers. It also donates 10% of revenue to your open source project of choice. (I give mine to Ruby On Rails). Buzz is one thing, but professionalism is another. I already had 2 different occasions where I waited for the TxD support team over two days, and eventually solved my problem either by help from TxD's active user community, or by e-mailing jason (CEO) directly.

Their apache server was just down for 31 minutes... This means that all of the people sites sharing the server I am hosted on - were also down. That's a pitty, I have just emails some people to check out bibli.ca. I guess that some of them have clicked my link and got nothing. nada. ziltch.

http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=7888 is my call for desperate help. (I also filed a ticket - which I hope someone have picked up and fixed, although up until now, I haven't got any response to that ticket).

Technorati Tags: hosting, text drive, bibli.ca

What a ride - site went up yesterday - and there are 19 creations posted. Many from friends, some of new friends :).

In addition I have added more creations from Gutenberg and other public domain creations, for testing and to help popoulate the site.

blogged about bibli.ca yesterday, which was followed by Bill's blog. Brian Shields have got to the site (probably through Bill), and blogged in KRON4 on it. Matt also did his thing.

The founding fathers in action.

Now what? fixing bugs is the first priority. I already taken care of some glitches, and will iron all the rest over the weekend. I hope to make the feature/bug list public so that everyone could add their requests, and vote on requests of others.

Here are some of yesterday's creators:

Brian Shield - posting short stories, and two chapters of his upcoming novel.

Amit Bar-nir - a good friend and a talented script writer.

BillSaysThis - a colleague, and a man of many many talents.

Tom Carpel - talented UCLA student, who also have a gig at RawSugar.

Fixed some performance and resource usage bugs.

I'll do some testing tomorrow night, and hopefully send over to people the day after.

technorati tags: deployment