686 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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Woo hoo… it’s time to introduce another great new feature on our site. The idea of having separate LumberJocks section for posting reviews has been bouncing around in many discussions recently. I finally decided to turn it into reality this weekend.
There was lots of brainstorming involved during recent weeks because I wanted to be sure that the system will automatically guide you when posting the review of the product that was already reviewed by other jock(s). This system ens...
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255 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
17 comments »
This may appear to be a small 5 minute job, however this upgrade took me a number of hours…I hope you enjoy the shorter LJ links:
Yes, all personal LJ links have been changed from lumberjocks.com/jocks/nickname to lumberjocks.com/nickname format. This is also reflected in your personal projects, blogs etc. links (ex: lumberjocks.com/nickname/blog).
Old links will still work to ensure backwards compatibility.
I’m off to update my email signatures now…
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253 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
3 comments »
Hey, this new feature will please all you RSS fans. Yesterday, I added one new RSS feed that combines Projects, Blogs, Forums and Reviews feeds into one ultimate RSS stream. This was one of the most requested features for some time and now you can subscribe to the LumberJocks All Posts feed here
You can find a link to this new feed in a new set of icons/buttons on the home page:
As you can see there are also direct buttons to our Facebook page, Twitter page as well as Flickr group.
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44 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
34 comments »
Long time, no post… anyways I’d like to keep you updated about the latest updates on the site. Support and maintenance is taking more and more time because your activity grows leaps and bounds so these upgrades are not huge nor revolutionary. Anyways I’m sure that you’ll find them interesting because most of them were requested multiple times in the past. So here they are:
New Events Calendar features a monthly view of all important LJ picnics and meetings. These ...
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755 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
6 comments »
I’m happy to let you know that we finally have trendy LumberJocks web widgets!
What are widgets, you ask? ”A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.” – Widgets for Web 2.0
So now it’s easy to present latest LumberJocks’ projects, blogs or forum topics on your websit...
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918 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
20 comments »
Hello fellow LumberJocks, I have another great news to share with you. I’ve just finished the work on customizing our dedicated woodworking store:
This store - in association with Amazon.com - offers the vast selection of tools & hardware, accessories, as well as woodworking books, magazines and DVDs. All of the most popular brands are included and you can see them listed on the right. If you're interested in hard-to-resist discounts feel free to browse Today's Deals and Outl...
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924 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
7 comments »
Completion of this neat little feature took me longer than expected. I wanted to raise my bar as always and spent most of the time thinking and rethinking again. I’ve finally started to work on the plan this week and am proud to announce the addition of Favorites to LumberJocks today.
As you may expect you can add any type of post – project, blog entry, forum topic or workshop – to your favorites list. You can find shining button on each post page. Click on it and short ...
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482 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
9 comments »
Just a brief update… I have added new (and highly requested) Contests tab to the main navigation. It links to the page that lists our past and present Awards and Challenges together with the corresponding dates.
Check it out now – I’m sure you’ll be pleased to see LJ history in the making ;)
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962 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
17 comments »
Blog entries and forum topics are now taggable too. Tags are becoming more and more important as the content on the LumberJocks is growing exponentially. Essentially they are like descriptive keywords attached to each project, blog entry or forum topic. They help to make it easier for you to find the content you’re interested in.
I’ve also redesigned the Tags page. Now it have three subpages – projects, blogs and forums. On each of them you can see the respective most pop...
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858 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
28 comments »
You can finally enjoy the result of my latest work. We got MUCH IMPROVED personal home pages here on the LumberJocks as well as better organization of the profile and account editing.
The former personal homes were not visually appealing and displayed only minimal amount of content. On the other hand, new ones have rich 3-column layout with lots of info about you and your activity on LumberJocks. I believe they represent something you can be proud of and are worth sharing with your friends...
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