Change Log

What Is This?

This is where you can find a list of most of the changes I've made to the website! These changes are based on feedback I get from people and what I feel needs to be done better or simply isn't working. Hopefully everyone sees these as improvements!

Last Update Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Redesigned Submission Roll - Added back in the description but only shown via click down instead of mouse-over
Redesigned Viewing Page - Wider is better!
Rewrote About OMGS Page
Removed Traces of Comment System
Removed Unused Social Buttons
Added Random Link - Pulls random submission.
Added Submitter Link - Allows you to pull all submissions by that person
Added Legal Link - I need to write this.

Random Notes

Website is maybe 50% overhauled! A lot of work still needs to be done to the submissions system, members panel and admin panel. I hope these changes make things "simpler" instead of more complicated. Also need to put in the print buying system.

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Added Facebook News Feed to Sidebar
Reworked Submissions/Uploads - Still Undergoing
Removed Aww Cute Reddit Button - This wasn't really used.
Removed Tumblr Button - This wasn't really used.
Removed Digg Button - This wasn't really used.
Removed Comments - This wasn't really used. Will probably replace it
Removed News & Blog - I am too busy to keep it up and using the Facebook wall was easier!

Random Notes

I need to organize myself better. Ideally I want to update daily and at a set time. I was thinking Sunday Squirrel Round-Ups would be every Sunday at 5AM CST.

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Added News & Blog Page
Added Social Buttons to Win Something pages
Changed design a bit
Changed the side bar to be wider
Changed the main images to be smaller
Changed the Facebook buttons in the view pages to the XFBML version
Changed a ton of things in the admin panel
Changed the "Winning" to Win Something and the way it works
Moved the logo from floating over things to be in the side bar
Moved the majority of links/embed codes to view page for each submission
Removed Facebook Video embed - No one was using it and it was creating a headache
Removed all the social links and description from the front page to make things load faster and make the pictures/videos more prominent

Random Notes

I'm unsure if the javascript that displays the title and info will work in mobile devices which means I'll eventually need to re-make the mobile version of the website! I should also get to making that RSS feed. I have most of it done but meh.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Added Digg Button
Added r/Squirrels Reddit button
Added Pintrest Button
Added Tumblr Button
Re-designed Button Placement
Removed "shield" so photos/video can be scrapped easier
Switched YouTube Embed to Apple friendly!
Fixed a bug where pages left were miscalulated! Thank you ceil();!
Put a temporary fix for detecting onkeydown in FF9 which is broke but will be fixed in FF10.

Random Notes

As much as I hate Apple I'll probably need to seriously look at making things Apple happy. Sigh.

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Added Stumble Upon button back
Added Reddit button
Added Large Size embed code
Added "Winning" GFX
Placed embed codes in pop-up box
Re-designed Bottom Bar
Re-designed Maintenance Page

Random Notes

Thanks to the people who helped fix the Facebook like confirmation fiasco! Hopefully I can increase activity on the website with my latest efforts!

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

MAJOR over-haul of design to be more blog-like
Made it so each approved submissions DOES NOT automatically get tweeted
Moved facebook/twitter buttons back underneath each submission
Moved social links back from the top to the new side bar
Added new side bar that displays latest Flickr submissions, the latest Sunday Squirrel Round-Up top pick and ad space, will probably display more when I think it up.
Added the "Winning" page for giveaways/contests/ads etc.
Added the BBCode/HTML code boxes back in
Added a new "medium" size to fit the smaller front roll while the view pages maintain the large 900px wide image
Added a traditional registration page instead of the drop down lightbox crap
Changed the front roll significantly and added user avatars to each submission info
Changed the top navigation and removed the filter drop down
Changed the way submissions worked
Changed the submissions system's code to make it work better
Changed the URL for the viewing pages (which broke Facebook likes because I forgot to change the opengraph tags when testing them out, which means people have to CONFIRM their likes for now until Facebook deems I'm not some "Like Jacker" WTF, ugh)
Changed the way photos can be embedded externally
Removed Stumble Upon badge for each submission
Removed a lot of dumb code
Removed mobile website, for now. Will probably overhaul when I find time.
Removed info page and moved most of the stuff in there to the side bar
Updated About OMGS page
Updated the Admin page to actually be functional

Random Notes

I need to learn how to twitter more efficiently! Also hopefully Facebook figures out I'm not "ClickJacking", of course it wouldn't have happened if I had not changed the URLs for the view pages but I needed to make them more friendly!

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Made this page
Made it so each approved submissions automatically get tweeted
Made a website down/construction landing page so I can do work without people seeing a broken website
Moved social links to the top navigation from the right hand side of the front roll
Changed the filter links to a filter drop down to accommodate the social links in the top navigation
Changed the way submissions worked instead of being in a drop down lightbox, it is now a page
Changed the submissions system to allow people to submit anonymously which will then be attributed to "Random Stranger"
Changed the Sunday Squirrel Submission/Top Picks to ~~Top Flickr Submissions~~ Sunday Squirrel Round-Up
Added the Facebook & Twitter buttons to the right hand side of each submission on the front roll
Added Stumble Upon badge for each submission
Added a favicon for the website
Moved the discuss/source/edit buttons to the right hand side menu
~~Stopped being lazy~~ Fixed the code where users were forced to only upload .jpgs. Now all image types may be uploaded including transparent pngs.
~~Stopped being lazy~~ Fixed the code where video submissions did not have Facebook like buttons
~~Stopped being lazy~~ Fixed the CSS of the top navigation which made the mini-info bar push down the page elements and was too small to display info.