- October 9, 07
- Thank you John Resig and the jQuery team
- It's often said that programming is the art of simplifying the complex.
Well, John Resig and his team have done a great job of simplifying Javascript by creating the jQuery framework. Javascript is a programming language that, among other things, let's us modify the browser window you are now looking at. But Javascript can be a little fussy, especially if you take into account that there are several types of browsers in use around the world.
So jQuery provides a simplified way of writing Javascript. Javascript programs that took 50 lines before can take 10 lines in jQuery.
This is a crude comparison, but it's little like if you were trying to learn Chinese and someone came along and reduced the number of words you needed to learn by 70%.
We've just finished speeding up our front page with jQuery. Thanks John.
- August 15, 07
- All sites now cached for speed
- "Caching" is a fancy French-flavored computer term for storing information in a manner that makes it easier and faster to retrieve. For a web site, that means building and storing pages before they are accessed by visitors.
All of the sites on Storybloks are now about 90% cached. That means more speed for all sites.
- January 14, 07
- Complete control over comments
- You now have many ways you can control how people add comments to your blog.
You can oblige commenters to create an account and then log in before submitting comments. Or you can ask for an email address and name along with all comments.
Once a comment has been submitted, you can hold it indefinitely until you've approved it. Or you can only hold for approval only comments from visitors who have published less than two comments previously.
You can turn off comments completely. Or allow all comments.
You can also screen for undesirable comments. Storybloks lets you develop a list of "bad words" that, if found in any one comment, will prevent that comment from being published.
In the same spirit, you can ask the software to hold any comments with two or more links. Links are sometimes a sign of spam.
- January 6, 07
- One-click redesigns
- Storybloks now lets you change your designs in one click. Just log in to the Site Manager, click Designs, and then click on one of the templates. Instant redesign.
