Tabulas.com got a new front page today.

Some notes:

  • Implemented the user-hashing mechanism for protecting passwords. It's off by default (need to check that 'high-security' box to activate it)
  • Usability: XHTML 1.0 validation, semantic markup (try viewing without the CSS file, still looks fine, em instead of px, bigger fonts for readability, etc. etc.
  • No more javascript errors popping up left and right (a big problem on the old site)
  • Backend rewritten from scratch (again)
  • Moving away from the home.tabulas.com subdomain primarily because maintaining multiple subdomains is a bitch (can't share libraries as easily), and also because i think it screws up tabulas' pagerank (not that i'm into that stuff, but it's really frustrating to see non-tabulas related sites come up when i search for 'tabulas')
  • New login method - hopefully some of the weird login issues will be resolved ... using sessions on top of cookies, so this should help alleviate stress loads on the server
  • Recently updated journals and galleries used to cause a problem with the database server - it was a huge, inefficient SQL ... which was causing a ton of problems on the DB server ... so now I've chunked recently updated entries and galleries into a separate table which is used to generate this data. This means I can also update it every one minute instead of doing it every 12 minutes, and it won't kill the database server in the process!

Um yeah.

Posted by roy on June 11, 2005 at 06:07 PM in Tabulas | 1 Comments

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Comment posted on June 12th, 2005 at 05:21 AM
agreed! that is pretty spiffy!

ummm... on the account regestration page, that username checking script doesnt seem to be working properly: it seems to chop off the last letter of the username input textbox.