I've been at a Internet cafe for the past few hours, uploading and troubleshooting the new Tabulas front page (check out what I've done so far) ... and one person at this cafe has the nerve to play Billy Joel on the computer speakers.

But it's not just the fact that he or she is playing "Uptown Girl" on the speakers loudly. Apparently he or she REALLY loves this song. I mean, REALLY. It's been on repeat for the past 26 minutes.

Someone kill me.

As you can now see, it's not a huge upgrade, but the HTML is now much cleaner and the whole thing is driven by CSS instead of tables.

The page is standards-compliant (XHTML 1.0/CSS), which gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Not really.

Currently logging in/logging out, registering, and all the "account retrieval" information stuff works.

The 'news' doesn't work, nor does the 'about' or 'features' links. The bottom navbar also needs to be updated ...

I haven't yet set the 'recently updated' to a cron yet, so that won't update.

But the important thing to note is how much JS I'm incorporating into the site; try the registration page... it's a lot cleaner and now there are "helpful hints" whenever you switch from field to field. Hopefully that type of help will be incorporated into the 2.0 control panel (which is due for yet another revamping now that I'm getting obsessed with JS).

There are a few minor things to tweak ... and some sections to add ... but all-in-all, I'm pretty happy with the way this thing has turned out.

Now to go back to my apartment and do all the tweaking ... maybe if I have the energy I'll come back here and upload all the changes. If not, wait until tomorrow! 8)
Posted by roy on July 31, 2004 at 06:52 AM in Tabulas | 15 Comments

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Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 08:41 PM
the JS is very slick, but the layout is a bit bland. I mean, i like it, but add some color!
Comment posted on August 1st, 2004 at 02:43 AM
i\'m not a huge fan of color ;)
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 08:15 PM
i like it a lot, very \"mac\"!
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 06:41 PM
Wow, that looks INCREDIBLE!! Great work! I can\'t wait til it\'s completely finished! :D

RoyKim (guest)

Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 04:45 PM
I really have to pay myself on the back, I do awesome work.
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 12:21 PM
I think you should spice it up with a few animated gifs. Also, consider using some blinking text to give it a more professional look. If you don\'t know how to do it, I can show you sometime.

Daniel (guest)

Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 09:54 AM
dude... could you tell me how tomorrow will be? I\'m still in 7/31/04.

haha... is there a way to link Tabulas and Xanga?
Comment posted on August 1st, 2004 at 02:44 AM
Hey!

Uh... tomorrow will be.... hot? I shoudl really get out of this PC bang and find out what the future holds for you ;)

There used to be a way to link both, but not anymore.
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 08:01 AM
it\'s so nice and it looks so cool on the eyes. great job!
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 07:56 AM
Wow dude, it looks awesome.
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 07:57 AM
But the admin bar\'s broken now. \"Your Site\" links to home.tabulas.com/~
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 07:44 AM
is there going to be a \"find friends\" navigator like there was when you first introduced tabulas?
Comment posted on August 1st, 2004 at 01:19 AM
Oh, you mean the user directory? That was launched a few days ago.
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 08:40 PM
thats a paid feature. \'user directory\' is what you\'re referring to.
Comment posted on July 31st, 2004 at 07:47 AM
oops, i meant \"find friends?\" i don\'t quite follow....