feedback blog for alpha stage

Hi

We just performed an update of our blogr service, in order to fix a number of issues, that kept bugging our users:

• Updated the Story Editor (tinyMCE) to the latest Version, so that inserting of YouTube-videos should be no longer a problem
• Fixed the editing and deletion of multiple Media-Files
• Tags are now shared for Stories and Media
• Added a shared TagCloud (see here for example)
• Enhanced User-Interface for Comments

Just made an update on the server to reflect the latest development bugfixes in CVS. We are in the last round before we remove the need to log in to access the alpha testing area.

What is included

• Total rework of HTML/CSS structure for site layouts
  some layouts just made out of pure CSS are on their way to show the power of this move.
• Videos are now transcoded into flash, and we extract preview images and metadata - this makes navigation throughj videos a lot easier and better looking
• Improved resizer on photo list pages (smoother and faster)
• Better looking paginator (this is the thing at the end of endless list, that is saying Page 1 | 2 | 3 ...)
• AJAX inline editing for tags, titles and descriptions for photos and videos
• Improved details page for images
• too many smaller fixes to count 

What's next

• remove stuff that can't be easily fixed (day pages, podcasts)
• remove stuff that just seems too much (files section)
  
• add some layouts
• add an easy way to switch between layouts
• work on admin center
  

help us to get rid of the last bugs - and stay tuned

The way how videos are embeded got a major update.

Please check it out.

 - matthias