Several new updates

Well I've made a few new changes and uploaded some of the new interface updates. The whole goal for this update was to really make everyone's page a lot easier to use and read. With all the amazing backgrounds everyone is uploading some of the navigation pieces were getting hidden. Hopefully this update will resolve some of those issues. I also tried to bring a lot more of the pages together. Please let me know if you find any bugs!!

- brian

Marketing and Promotion

Today's efforts really consisted of boosting the site's appeal to potential new users. Thus the front page was redone. I think it will really help two things, mainly curbing spam accounts who don't know what's in the site and just sign up fake accounts and luring people in to check out the site who don't want to waste their time signing up for something that might not be cool. I'm coming to a slowdown of bugfixes and I think the site is pretty stable at this point. On another cool note, our first Alexa rating was pretty good, here's a graph.



I think the reception the site has received so far proves that there might be a real following soon! Make sure to tell all your friends and family to sign up and start SHOUTING! today.

cheers,
brian

Recent Bugfixes

A lot of you have really gone out of your way to let me know about some of your issues, concerns, requests and a LOT OF BUGS! I was actually flying home from Dallas to Washington, DC tonight and worked on a lot of those issues. Hopefully the biggest of which is the problem with people having really slow experiences. Please let me know if you have any problems with unbearable slowness on the site as I hope I've taken care of most of it. I'm sure as we grow we'll have lots of growing pains but I will try and address them as they come along and we'll continue to build a great community!! Thanks again!

cheers,
brian

New User Notice

Hey everyone,

I am letting everyone know that there is now a new place for postings related to this site (http://shout-central.blogspot.com). From now on any postings about changes to the site or updates will be placed here as opposed to spamming you all with unwanted e-mails. Until I have the official e-mail addresses for the site up and running you can reach me at brianchoffman@gmail.com.

Now to the meat of this message! If you recently signed up for an account on Shout! you probably noticed that when you tried to "Add Photos" on your profile you were automatically logged out! This is due to an issue when accessing the site through http://shoutcentral.com instead of http://www.shoutcentral.com. Since I am working on a way to have all your accounts easily accessible through a http://username.shoutcentral.com way I have temporarily disabled accessing the site without the www. on the beginning. I have fixed the add pictures link though and you should be able to login properly now. PHEW!

Lastly but not leastly or something like that...

If you find yourself not being able to view anything but the buddy list, check to see if up in the address for our site in your browser that you have http://www.shoutcentral.com with the www. INCLUDED! :) This makes the site much happier!


Cheers!
Brian (brianchoffman@gmail.com)