• I have a bit of performance work to sort out, lots of blocking going on. Sporadic timesout. Errors when trying to remove bottles etc. I did just make one important change on the GrapeStories side. Please bear with me.
  

• Also, if you try to browse to http://grapestories.com as opposed to http://www.grapestories.com the site was letting you do that. Problem comes with cookies and logging into your account. Anyway, on the CellarTracker side I have a gadget that forces you to www.cellartracker.com. I just enabled the same on the GrapeStories site. That may mean you need to login again. Apologies for the oversight.
• I have fixed 5 or 6 other small glitches that are showing up in the error logs. Tons of great feedback coming in although probably 75% is people clicking on links to things that are clearly not implemented yet. So if you click a link and it takes you to the same page, that means I know. It's not done yet.
  

• Made some performance tweaks that seem to be helping a lot. I have more to do. Yesterday had VERY, VERY heavy load (5x normal actually), and the site did not handle it well.
  
• Clicking on the comments link from a user's homepage was not filtering correctly. Now you should see their comments properly.
  
• Many links that were not implemented now throw up an alert to say they are not implemented. I figure that people would just sort of get that if a link didn't work I knew. Apparently not. 90% of the emails and reports I am getting are on NYI links.
• I also removed the static SHARE dialog in favor of the prior NYI treatment. The real dialog will be back soon.
• Scrollbars were showing up in FireFox for the three modal popup dialogs (wine rating assistant, tasting note assistant, share dialog). Fixed. I need to sanity check the other browsers, and may switch to a different modal dialog codenase as the one I amusing is a little touchy.
  
• The signin pop dialog no longer juts off the edge of the screen on smaller displays when you click the SIGN IN link at upper left. I am going to try to come up with a general fix to make sure that no dialog EVER pops off the bottom or right edge of the screen.
• When drinking a bottle or adding a tasting note, if the note/bottle are defective then the LIKE/DISLIKE radio buttons are now disabled, and of course you are not forced to make a LIKE/DISLIKE choice.
• When multiple people commented on a tasting note AND specified whether or not the note was helpful, there was duplication. So with three comments and helpful votes on the notes, you would see each comment three times. Four comments and four helpful votes, each comment shown four times. Fixed.
• I made some webkit (Safari & Chrome) specific style fixes to the search controls to fix some sizing and alignment issues.
• I fixed the IE accelerator XML to actually link to GrapeStories and properly use UTF8.
• The Twitter control when drinking a bottle now says "Drinking" instead of "Tasting".
• Some people were seeing issues on a user profile page where paging through fans/friends etc. would not work. This was due to NYI links. If you followed a non-functional link this would sometimes add a # to the end of the hyperlink. And that broke the paging script. Anyway, since the NYI links are fixed people won't hit this.
• I cleaned up the NYI notifications box on the homepage so that the signup date is formatted correctly and so that the link to the Alerts &Notifications settings is shown below rather than in the heading.

• I will add a new default to the POPULAR WINES box on the homepage and wines landing page. IF you have wines in your cellar the site will default to showing you notes from other users on wines in your cellar. This is probably the #1 issue that people are running into. (Not realizing that it is just not the default.) In general I will be cleaning this up as well to add a more/less toggle to let you see more notes, maybe just a couple of lines per note, but with easy inplace toggle to lengthen a note.
• Will try to sort out the dialog positioning to always keep them onscreen.
  
• A bottle of 1989 Haut Brion and a steak. I need a treat. It has been a long, tiring, exciting and challenging few days.

• Mac Dymo label printing has been resuscitated to work with the Dymo 8.x software. http://www.cellartracker.com/CTMacLabel25.zip
• I posted an updated FireFox addin for Dymo to work with FF 3.6: http://www.cellartracker.com/XPCom/install.htm
• People have been killing me on the fact that AutoComplete was not yet enabled in the main search control in GrapeStories. OK, done at least for the core views. I need to do some overhaul here still, but I hacked in the basics. Enjoy. BTW, there is  WELL KNOWN issue that arrowing up/down in the autocomplete control when in a new-style search view will also change the row focus in the table. I know. It will be fixed. Did I mention this was a hack? I have a better solution coming. If you want to complain then I will take the new toy away...
  

• People are not seeing how to delete a tasting note. I just bolded the hyperlink on the note-editing page to see if this helps. (Look to the lower left.)
• A lot of people are not seeing the expand/collapse on the drinking page which lets you add a tasting note, send a message on Twitter, add drinking windows and food tags. I added some bolded (click to expand/collapse) text and also hyperlinked the Add a Tasting Note heading. Hopefully this is helps people find this functionality now.

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A few things today:

• Mac Dymo label printing has been resuscitated to work with the Dymo 8.x software. http://www.cellartracker.com/CTMacLabel25.zip
• I posted an updated FireFox addin for Dymo to work with FF 3.6: http://www.cellartracker.com/XPCom/install.htm
• People have been killing me on the fact that AutoComplete was not yet enabled in the main search control in GrapeStories. OK, done at least for the core views. I need to do some overhaul here still, but I hacked in the basics. Enjoy. BTW, there is  WELL KNOWN issue that arrowing up/down in the autocomplete control when in a new-style search view will also change the row focus in the table. I know. It will be fixed. Did I mention this was a hack? I have a better solution coming. If you want to complain then I will take the new toy away...
  

• The search focus dropdown on the homepage should no longer be obscured.
• The bulk-edit actions menu is now properly on top of the MORE icons.
• Various dialog-based actions should now work and not leave you on an empty screen including: wishlist tagging, creating a saved search, bulk relocating and consuming from the bottle view, vintage tagging of label images, advanced search filtering on vintage or price/value thresholds, toggling score-only note display, toggling single bottle view in your cellar, adding a message to a public message board, adding/editing food tags.
• Toggling between vintage-specific and vintage-neutral when tagging the vintage on a label image now properly enables and disables the vintage control in IE.
• The bulk-purchase form now properly updates when you toggle between pending and in-stock.
• On the bottle editing screen the bottle selection tool now works.
• I fine tuned the alignment of the main site search control in IE7.

• Some privacy changes I made on day-1 of the launch had broken the ability to post on your own message board.
• The vintage navigation dropdown now includes a choice to add a new vintage. I also fixed the z-ordering issue with the note-sorting dropdown in wine-page classic view.
• The purchase and bulk purchase forms will no longer submit if you hit enter with your focus in one of the edit controls.

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You stink worse than the poopies my dog leaves on the lawn every day.

• Fixed the grammar error "people that love wine" on the non logged in homepage.
• Fixed the autocompletion menu so that arrowing in the menu does not trigger row scrolling in search views.
  

• No coloring for the highlighted row in standard search results.
• Wrapping of the saved searches menu for users with payment reminders or long handles.
  

• Fixed the search dropdown in IE7 which was broken with my other IE7 fixes yesterday.
• Added ActionBox calls to a number of wine sub-pages so that the saved search menu works properly. I still need to do a complete pass across the site to ensure that every single page works. (It is a simple one-line fix for any broken page, so please let me know if you see others.)
  

• The RSS feeds have gotten some love. In both CellarTracker and GrapeStories, the feeds no longer have the FIND THIS ON WINE-SEARCHER link. Both sets of feed now also include postDate with RFC822 date formats, and this should help a lot more RSS readers accommodate the feeds. Finally the GrapeStories version of the feed now links each note to it's corresponding drilldown page.
• The dialog positioning code has been tweaked to try and ensure that dialogs are always displayed onscreen no matter how large or small the screen. There used to be a lot of cases where a dialog could protrude off the bottom or right of the screen, but this should be a lot more dialed in now. There also used to be some cases where items from the bulk-edit action menus (accept pending delivery, wishlist tagging) would come up in the upper left corner slightly offscreen, and that has now been fixed as well.
  

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I also played with some prototype changes to fold the items in the first column (social/community stuff, recommended wines, food tags) into the underlying section headers in order to allow the classic mode to utilize the full width of the screen. This will be a bit more involved to do well, and I won't likely have it ready for a few weeks until we switch to the full/elastic width mode (versus the current 1024px fixed width). Coupled with sticky memory on which sections a user had open/closed, this should ultimately quell all open issues that CT-lovers have with the classic mode wine detail page. So just hang in there for a few weeks, and then you will see...

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OK, some cleanups on the wine popup menu. Now anywhere you see the new-style icon in the site clicking on it gets a shortcut menu. And that menu now checks whether you have inventory to decide whether to have the "Drink or Remove" menu choice.

1. The site will be moving from a fixed 1024 pixel width to a 'fluid' width. We are still using 1024px as the minimum desired width, but if people stretch the site on larger monitors, ala CellarTracker, we will let things stretch, especially in the 'classic' views. That said, there are firm design reasons that led us to embrace the fixed width in the first place (the human eye struggles to read a very long line of text), so it's not so simple. As I have mentioned earlier this will likely take us until mid April to fully cleanup and then turn on fluid width.
2. First up I am making 10-12 significant changes to the homepage to make it more customizable, useful and pay more homage to some of the things that people really liked on the CT homepage. I got a good start on this yesterday and expect it will take a few more days.
3. As mentioned a few days ago, the 'classic' mode on the wine detail page is going to lose the first column and get wider. The expand/collapse of headings will get sticky. I plan to try and tackle this late this week and next. Likely a 1-week task.
4. The grouped/pivot/summary views need to get less 'tall' and more wide. I will make a start on this, although it will also really benefit from the fluid width changes. I may also add some customization to let people pick which items they want to show in the grid.
   
5. Finally, the biggest one, the re-adoption of "1-line" versus "3-line" views in search results. This will also depend in large part on fluid width. I will also likely add more customization so that people can pick WHICH columns/items to show or hide.

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You can have all of the Bud Light you can find in my house... 

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ORIGINAL: Eric
First up I am making 10-12 significant changes to the homepage to make it more customizable, useful and pay more homage to some of the things that people really liked on the CT homepage. I got a good start on this yesterday and expect it will take a few more days.