Busy Bee Boards, Part 2

Busy Bee Boards, Part 2

February 25th, 2008 @ 5:55 pm by BIL Bee

Hey everybody, it’s BIL Bee. Mrs. Bee recently asked me to fix some Boards features that were giving you trouble. I’m not 100% done, but I was able to fix a few things and add a few new features…

First, Bee mentioned that sometimes new users didn’t receive their emailed passwords, and current users didn’t get their private message alerts. It turns out that we were sending the emails, but some email servers didn’t “trust” that our email wasn’t spam, so they were throwing our emails away! Happily, I think we finally straightened that out last week.

jilian wanted easy access to the Not Wedding Related board, so we added a drop-down menu at the top of both the Boards and Classifieds:

BaghdadBride and sphbride both wanted to be able to sort Board posts by the date it was originally posted (not the date of last comment), so we added three buttons to the top of the Boards:

champagnebride wants to be able to change her password. Actually, you can change their password right now by clicking “View your profile” at the top of the Boards page, and then clicking “edit this information” link. The link to change your password, champagnebride, is http://boards.weddingbee.com/profile/champagnebride/edit.
jnicholea wants to be able to click the Boards image in the right sidebar and go to the Boards. Well, jnicholea, you’re all set now! I also made the Classifieds image clickable too…

I’ll keep on plugging away on your other requests. In the meantime, let us know what you think so far!

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25 Responses to “Busy Bee Boards, Part 2”

Member

Angel (message) 1,252 posts, Bumble bee

Wonderful! Thanks for all your work and these cool changes. I love being able to sort the posts!

2/25/08 @ 6:24 pm (reply)

Member

jenniferb (message) 168 posts, Blushing bee

Awesome job BILBee! You rock!

2/25/08 @ 6:26 pm (reply)

Member

misspinkberry (message) 28 posts, Newbee

thanks BIL Bee - love the new features!

2/25/08 @ 7:05 pm (reply)

Guest

mthreestudio

Can you also make the “boards” title on the right hand side of the page clickable? It is a small, but annoying thing that I can’t go to the general boards page without going to the top of the page.

Thanks!

2/25/08 @ 7:21 pm (reply)

Member

BaghdadBride (message) 346 posts, Helper bee

woohoo!

2/25/08 @ 7:22 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Magnolia (message) 252 posts, Helper bee

BILBee, you have been a busy, busy….well, bee!

2/25/08 @ 8:25 pm (reply)

Member

glittergrl (message) 357 posts, Helper bee

thanks! I thought I was the only one not getting message alerts.

2/25/08 @ 8:36 pm (reply)

Member

jilian (message) 372 posts, Helper bee

Awesome! thanks

2/25/08 @ 8:59 pm (reply)

Bee

Miss Cupcake (message) 1,167 posts, Bumble bee

Thanks BILBee!

2/25/08 @ 9:37 pm (reply)

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Guest

tamara

BILBee, I love your icon! (And Mr. Bee’s too.)

2/25/08 @ 9:44 pm (reply)

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Guest

Jessica Lynn

yay! thanks so much for “hookin it up!”

2/25/08 @ 10:31 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mr. Bee (message) 1,545 posts, Bumble bee

@mthreestudio - I think that’s covered in the fifth bullet? In any case, try it out and let us know if it works for you!

2/25/08 @ 10:43 pm (reply)

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Member

ErinMarieMack (message) 642 posts, Busy bee

Yeah! Thank you so much!

2/25/08 @ 10:57 pm (reply)

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Guest

Fox&theHound

Thanks so much those changes are great!

One thing though that I forgot to post when this was first asked…is there any way you can make sizing photos you put in the boards easier? I love posting pictures and I think they can really help but only certain sized photos will fit so I have to resize my photos in the pop up window. But to use that feature I can’t just put in one dimension (ie width) I have to calculate the other dimension so that the picture doesn’t end up distorted.

2/25/08 @ 11:21 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mr. Bee (message) 1,545 posts, Bumble bee

@Fox&theHound - We haven’t spent any time on photo uploading or sizing… we’ll have to look into that one at some point. Thanks for the reminder!

2/25/08 @ 11:45 pm (reply)

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Member

stargazerlily (message) 946 posts, Busy bee

U make me want to Brog harder…faster…

2/26/08 @ 1:05 am (reply)

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Member

mtyf (message) 321 posts, Helper bee

Thanks for all of your hard work!

I get randomly subscribed to posts - even ones I haven’t read… I think it is always posts from the classified board, for some reason. Any way to stop this?

2/26/08 @ 10:08 am (reply)

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Guest

Emily

Not sure you fixed the password problem. I tried again yesterday and still have not received a password to my gmail account!

2/26/08 @ 10:25 am (reply)

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Bee

Mrs. Emerald (message) 901 posts, Busy bee

You are so awesome…

2/26/08 @ 10:45 am (reply)

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Bee

Mr. Bee (message) 1,545 posts, Bumble bee

@mtyf - Sorry that’s a known issue… we’ll make a note to look into it.

@Emily - Please email us at the “Contact Us” link above! If you could also check your spam folder, sometimes it’s in there too. Thanks…

2/26/08 @ 12:21 pm (reply)

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Guest

HCB

I may be a little late here… but I have a small issue that bothers me a bit. I think this may be an issue based on how each particular blogger creates her (or his) entry, but sometimes when I click on a hyperlink it will navigate me away from the WeddingBee page and other times it will open in a new page. I prefer it to open in a new page because most often I’m not ready to navigate away from WB (must keep wedding bee up!) and then I have to come back.

Soo…. Is there any way to ensure that a hyperlink always opens in a new page (or tab when using Firefox/tabbed browsing)?

Thanks so much for all of the hard work!

P.S. - I’m no computer whiz so if I didn’t use the proper web terms - sorry!

2/26/08 @ 4:38 pm (reply)

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Bee

Mr. Bee (message) 1,545 posts, Bumble bee

@HCB - We hand configure each link by hand to link to another page. Sounds like we missed some of those. We’ll look into more permanent solutions for that.

In the meantime, maybe try holding down shift when you click on a new link? That will always open the page in a new window… it should work on any site.

2/26/08 @ 4:47 pm (reply)

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Guest

HCB

Thanks for the quick response. I didn’t know that shift trick. Thanks so much!

Awesome work, Bee Family!

2/26/08 @ 6:05 pm (reply)

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Member

smt (message) 165 posts, Blushing bee

BIL - you’re so awesome =)

2/26/08 @ 8:50 pm (reply)