Low Profile Alpha Roll Out
Okay I had started following a bunch of people on twitter.
Basically searching for people who tweets the term twitpic before, these shall be my potetinal users as well.
I have few followed back, not alot. But I can take it slowly. Myself will start uploading more picture for contents to attract people to try out as well.
Hope there will be people signing up soon and server can take the load, should not be a problem initially, keep my finger crossed 
jquery ImageOverlay problem
I have added quite a number of jquery plugin to enhance the UX of the jiaoz web site.
One of which is the image overlay plugin which works great in browse and search page. When you mouse over the thumbnail a text overlay will slides up the image title. A great way to browse the pictures.
However it seems sometimes it causes problem in Firefox, I can reproduce it in Firefox on Windows XP and Ubuntu 64bit OS but easier to reproduce in WinXP. So far I do see this problem in Safari, Chrome or Opera.
So I am wondering if this is Firefox related or it problem coming from the ImageOverlay plugin itself.
The problem basically is related to the layout. It seems the script causes the layout to be distorted. However, the weird thing is it doesn’t always happen. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t, so this makes me think that the problem probably lies with some timing issue.
If anyone encountered such problem before I would like to know … meanwhile I will need to some debugging.
svn: Committed revision 200
Okay, now my subversion revision has reached 200.
I stored all my code base at xp-dev.com, which is a great subversion hosting. I highly recommend it. I like it so much now I had became a paid user instead of free account.
Anyway, the basic feature of the jiaoz site is pretty much up. Added lot of minor goodies to enhance the UX.
The final task shall be redo the home page layout to make the first impression more stand out.
Note to Self for future enhancements:
- Picture comments filtering by selecting an area on picture
- Anonymous comments filtering (or simply disallow anonymous comment?)
- Reporting mechanism for picture abuse (copyright? bad taste?)
Let’s see if I can roll out alpha version by end of the month … will do so by simply keep posting new picture on twitter. Kinda low profile as it is launching, rather than big bang. I don’t want the server to be DDoSed …
Excited!
Finally purchased the domain (jiaoz.sg).
The web site shall be launching soon (it’s actually kinda up, but no exteral back link so sort of no one knows about it anyway).
Still got some lose ends to tie up:
- Logo (i will try my best … i am not formally design trained, anyway. But well …)
- Touch up this blog (configuration, more contents etc)
- Redesign the Home page
- Redo About page
- Enhance the security especially SQL injection and xss
- Add a twitter account ?
- Setup email !
That should be all for now. Stay tuned!