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ORIGINAL: brigcampbell

look forward to the changes. things are coming along very nice and I'll continue to bang around all the corners of GS looking for issues to help the cause.

I think you need to set your expectations that some people will never be happy, that's just going to be the case no matter what.  unfortunate but true so dont lose sleep over it.

I'm GS all the time now, removed the book marks to CT from the brower and posting into the forums and linking back to wines in GS when appropriate just to "expose" the huddled masses.

You'll look back in a year and say "man that sucked, I'm never doing that again" but GS will be in a much better place for the future, no question.

1. I now support show/hide links for many of the boxes on the homepage. If you don't like a section, just click hide to 'minimize' it. And no, you CANNOT get rid of a section entirely. You have to live with at least seeing the heading.
   • Notifications (still NYI so not useful right now)
   • News & Press
   • Wine Browse
   • Popular Wines
   • Active Users
   • Recent Wines
     
2. The top-level cellar valuation now also has a show/hide for those who need spouse safety but have not turned off price/value in their account in general.
3. The POPULAR WINES box got a nice series of upgrades
   • It now remembers what tab/view were last used separately for user with inventory versus those without. And this allowed me to bring back the NOTES FROM OTHER USERS ON WINES IN MY CELLAR as the default view for all users with wine. And there was much rejoicing...
   • I now support inplace paging of the most recent 250 wines/notes in any of the views in this box.
   • The notes are no longer truncated and expose note commenting, voting etc. In other words the formatting of the notes is consistent with their display elsewhere on the site.
4. A number of people were missing the RECENT WINES functionality from CellarTracker. That is now a new section (which you can also show/hide) in the left-hand column for users who have inventory. And there are links to let you easily toggle between all wines, consumed, purchased, added and tasted. Sticky of course so it remembers your last view.
5. The wineglass icon next to any wine has all the commands you would want right there, and even has a friendlier "loading" status for the second or two it takes to load the very first time I use it.
   

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ORIGINAL: Eric

And to add to the fun, when I went to the datacenter and rebooted the firewall then I discovered that the config had not been saved properly back on 1/29/2010 when changes were made to allow me to host both cellartracker.com and grapestories.com. Basically it was a grenade without a pin. So after rebooting one could no longer get to www.cellartracker.com for the past few hours. Fixed now.

And here are the dozen changes that just went in for the homepage:

1. I now support show/hide links for many of the boxes on the homepage. If you don't like a section, just click hide to 'minimize' it. And no, you CANNOT get rid of a section entirely. You have to live with at least seeing the heading.
   • Notifications (still NYI so not useful right now)
   • News & Press
   • Wine Browse
   • Popular Wines
   • Active Users
   • Recent Wines
     
2. The top-level cellar valuation now also has a show/hide for those who need spouse safety but have not turned off price/value in their account in general.
3. The POPULAR WINES box got a nice series of upgrades
   • It now remembers what tab/view were last used separately for user with inventory versus those without. And this allowed me to bring back the NOTES FROM OTHER USERS ON WINES IN MY CELLAR as the default view for all users with wine. And there was much rejoicing...
   • I now support inplace paging of the most recent 250 wines/notes in any of the views in this box.
   • The notes are no longer truncated and expose note commenting, voting etc. In other words the formatting of the notes is consistent with their display elsewhere on the site.
4. A number of people were missing the RECENT WINES functionality from CellarTracker. That is now a new section (which you can also show/hide) in the left-hand column for users who have inventory. And there are links to let you easily toggle between all wines, consumed, purchased, added and tasted. Sticky of course so it remembers your last view.
5. The wineglass icon next to any wine has all the commands you would want right there, and even has a friendlier "loading" status for the second or two it takes to load the very first time I use it.
   

As I mentioned earlier, this page is still 1024px fixed width for now, but apart from that I consider it DONE. I hope that people understand that I am listening to the feedback and want to add a level of customization and flexibility to let you dial up or down the elements that you care about. And frankly, if you don't consider this version of the homepage to be a big upgrade from the CellarTracker one then you are simply being resistant to change and are not actually looking at the functionality.

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ORIGINAL: Eric


As I mentioned earlier, this page is still 1024px fixed width for now, but apart from that I consider it DONE. I hope that people understand that I am listening to the feedback and want to add a level of customization and flexibility to let you dial up or down the elements that you care about. And frankly, if you don't consider this version of the homepage to be a big upgrade from the CellarTracker one then you are simply being resistant to change and are not actually looking at the functionality.

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ORIGINAL: Barbotus

Since you asked in the WLTV Forum, yes these are excellent changes and I will freely admit that the GS homepage is infinitely superior to its CT counterpart. So not to worry, your compass still points north.
It is a very nice landing page. It might even be enough for me to occasionally visit the homepage on GS. My use of CT was all about the inventory, so the primary screens I used were My Cellar, the individual wine pages, Add, Drink, and Edit Inventory. And the filters/reports pages (particularly drinkability report) to drive toward the individual wine pages.

Congrats. The progress is coming.
Best,
Antone

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ORIGINAL: Eric

This has been a very quiet week on the coding front, as I have been working a lot on new Dymo support for the Mac. That's not quite ready and pending some fixes from Dymo.

Meanwhile, I just checked in some tweaks to help with the usability of the search control at the upper right. It is not done yet, but the control should be much stickier now about remembering your last search focus. Still more work to come here, but I think this will help a lot with the complaints of the usability of this.

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ORIGINAL: RoundersRob

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ORIGINAL: Eric

This has been a very quiet week on the coding front, as I have been working a lot on new Dymo support for the Mac. That's not quite ready and pending some fixes from Dymo.

Meanwhile, I just checked in some tweaks to help with the usability of the search control at the upper right. It is not done yet, but the control should be much stickier now about remembering your last search focus. Still more work to come here, but I think this will help a lot with the complaints of the usability of this.

new Dymo support on the mac? what I have is working now... Unless you are making it easier?

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ORIGINAL: Eric

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ORIGINAL: RoundersRob

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ORIGINAL: Eric

This has been a very quiet week on the coding front, as I have been working a lot on new Dymo support for the Mac. That's not quite ready and pending some fixes from Dymo.

Meanwhile, I just checked in some tweaks to help with the usability of the search control at the upper right. It is not done yet, but the control should be much stickier now about remembering your last search focus. Still more work to come here, but I think this will help a lot with the complaints of the usability of this.

new Dymo support on the mac? what I have is working now... Unless you are making it easier?

It will end up a lot easier. Just like on Windows, I will be able to let you print directly from the site. No CSV, no funny standalone AppeScript, and hopefully no need to install anything on your Mac than the latest Dymo software. I have hit some bug whcih Dymo has fixed and still have a few issues to work through with them. However, I am incredibly excited that they seem to have some excellent engineers who are really looking very seriously at their web-programmability story.

• A misplaced help hyperlink on the bulk purchase screen.
• Missing horizontal lines between rows in the MY CELLAR view.
• Probably some other things we haven't caught yet, so please bear with us.

• The aforementioned glitches have been cleaned up, along with a number of cases where a page would be forced to be too tall. There are still glitches that can occur if you go to a screen with an expand/collapse on the main form (e.g. the DRINK OR REMOVE screen), with the screen expanded and then collapse it. In some cases the right-panel might protrude off the bottom of the frame. This will be fixed in the future.
• It is now possible to edit a tasting note and set the LIKE/DISLIKE flag to neutral.
  

• A lot of people did not realize that this page could be expanded to let you post a tasting notes at the same time you are drinking a bottle. For the same of simplicity this was collapsed by default. Now there is always a small section at the bottom "Do you want to write a tasting note?" that is always present with more obvious YES/NO toggles that will then expand/collapse the form. And much like the standalone page for posting a tasting note, I have carved out a number of ADVANCED OPTIONS into a separate expand/collapse panel (drinking windows, food pairing tags, Twitter integration).
• If you only have one bottle of a given wine, that bottle is now selected by default when you come to the form.
• The "Had a taste" consumption type is now exposed.
• I have removed the nested panels that are used when you do a "chained" drinking operation (selecting multiple wines through the shopping cart interface or a bulk-edit action). Much cleaner visual display now.

• When changing the search-type dropdown, the focus is then automatically inserted into the corresponding search edit control.
• The IE7-specific visual glitch on a person profile page with no profile photo has been fixed.
• Due to IE bugginess I have removed the "slide" animation when adding wines to your shopping cart. I may have further work to do here to prevent the cart from getting out of sync with the main form, but I can't get this to break anymore with the slide animation removed.
  

• Various style fixes related to tables on forms in particular including the bulk purchase form. All are largely fallout from the pending changes to move to full fluid width.
• I fixed some international date formatting in the purchases view.
• Not strictly GS related, but I fixed a nagging and long-standing bug related to the editing of bulk import data and an error message that could/would occur when you deleted bulk data.
• The 2009 Bordeaux Futures report is live in CT: http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=Futures&Vintage=2009
• Most importantly, I spent much of yesterday wrestling with some administrative jobs that had been causing some overnight brownouts: http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=100469&mpage=1&key=&#100650
  

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ORIGINAL: Eric

Thanks Colonel. The forum opening should be unchanged from CT btw. Unless perhaps if you click very quickly. Or if not what browser are you using?

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ORIGINAL: Colonel Lawrence

When is the new improved "broad spread" GS due?
(sorry if I've missed that elsewhere)

L.