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Stardust Update: Email Notifications

Welcome to another blog update.

Yesterday I added email notifications to the blog comments. You may have noticed that there is an extra optional field for you to put your email address in when commenting. If you do so, anybody who replies to your comment will trigger an email notification which will go to the email address that you specified.

Currently the only method I have for you to unsubscribe from these emails is to email emails at starbeamrainbowlabs dot com, and I will process your request manually. Make sure that you include a copy of the email that you don't want anymore, since it contains information about the comment that you posted that I will have to edit. In the future I hope to have an automated system that you will be able to use.

If you notice any issues with this, please leave a comment below.

The other thing that I added is email notifications for myself. Now, every time somebody comments on my blog I will receive an email notification telling me about it. This is mainly because I forgot to check for new comments - you should receive a reply to your comment much faster now :)

Tag Cloud Update

Today (after lots of code tweaking in preparation), the tag clouds that recently appeared on the blog now have links on each tag so you can see which posts havethat particular tag. Currently, the Next Page and Pevious Page links are a little bit buggy, but that problem should be fixed sooner or later, I just need to make a few more changes to the code to make it more intelligent.

Edit: The Next Page and Previou Page buttons have been fixed! I have also added First Page and Last Page butttons too - the last page button was the reason it took to long to refactor the code :)

Tag Clouds

Yesterday I added a tag cloud to the website. You can find it at the top of the blog, or below the post on the article view. The tags are not yet linked to a list of posts that have the corresponding tags, as I need to some a litttle bit of refactoring of the blog's code in order to get that to work.

Website Updates

Yesterday I tweaked and updated the website. Here are the thing that I changed:

  • Finished adding the jigsaw puzzle pieces to the homepage
  • Added navigation aid to the top left of website on widescreens
  • Added footer to blog index page
  • Moved prism to the new /libraries/ folder
  • Added a smooth scrolling script to the navlist in the top left
  • Updated the todo list
  • Removed spam from blog
  • Added extra antispam measure: Not allowing email field to be filled in since it is not currently used yet anyway
  • Changed the highlighted selection colour to rgba(54, 0, 255, 0.21)

If you discover any issues while using the website, please leave a comment below. Antispam measures for this blog in particular seem to cause issues - in which case you can send bug reports to bugs at starbeamrainbowlabs dot com.

More changes will be coming in the near future, such as an Atom feed for comments and an email notification system for replies to your comments.

Update: The Atom feed for comments has been created! You can find it over at feed.comments.php.

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