Changes in our NEW Wizzley

Hi Will,

please empty your browser cache and restart your browser.

Everything works on our end.

I was expecting someone with a hideous avatar to turn up and tell me to read the FAQ.

So, thanks for that. Fine now.

AWESOME!

janderson99: 07/21/2012 - 12:25 AM

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Simon, thanks for looking in, but I see google.com and the percentage from it (That's max as you've seen - not disclosing the number here). But, before I'd be able to know how many visits came that way too - by hovering over the chart.

Let's say Google sent me 100 and WIzzley sent me 50

If I hover over the google area it used to say 100 and wizzley area used to say 50. But, that's not the case anymore. Knowing the numbers used to help me a lot

@ Simon:

Yea it really grabs you like a mental magnet, funny how great images really big hypnotize us to walk in like a virtual reality experience is inside- the articles, if formatted beautifully (as all wizzles seem to be) continue the hypnotic effect and bleed the words into an interactive bliss of knowledge/awareness symbiotic with the aesthetics- the full ride.

and while in a daze they slip the mouse over and things just click, they're happy, our earnings page is happy, we sold a ride into a perception realm- the authors view on interesting information and promises of more experiences just a picture click away... who could resist?

What makes sites successful in the new era is partially aesthetics and the journey (visual journey and intellectual fullfillment through words embedded in diamond crusted egyption beauty- our articles should sit atop those roman podiums and this format does just that for them- digitally)! The web 3.0 is creeping upon us and now is when you prepare for the next generation, 2.0 was interactive web, 3.0 is going to evolve that into no longer static text book "dated" experiences that belong in school- the next realm will be more of an evolved interactive format matured into something more exciting- interacting with information is evolving into an experience rather than boring pages of black and white words- we want the whole package- so we will remember what we're reading/learning about- we're getting "Tranquil" and "Wiser"... 

This design ads more internal syndication as well- something that was a bit lacking in the old 1.0 Wizzley- the images become doorways, attractive and alluring doorways into fascinating intrigue- images are powerful... those side bar "suggestions" will only go so far but choices (like clicking the category on ANY image/article pin takes you to other authors stuff which helps them stay focused and internal traffic a freeway).

With the pintrest format they get back in line, like an amazing experience at the state fair- only the ride changes gears digitally. They can't leave, it's too beautiful... drawn like a moth to a flame to keep clicking through as the stumble upon sites trained them to do :) victory is ours!  This format offers the visitor a ride through the site, with entry points in every article (more doors being built daily by wizzley authors).

What's in the door is a new experience, a neurally exciting journey into someone elses research and perception...  In a way the monetize modules like amazon with so many aesthetic options allows us to use beauty and images in the same way to garnish click/affiliate sale income from our articles... You've just moved the experience on the page expanded the concept and created a hallway that excites visitors before they walk in from certain areas of the site ...

Wizzley, the ride.

J-

p.s. in line with that "experience" I would think adding videos to your articles more would enhance this experience as many of our readers are also in love with videos and they enhance your articles depth...

I just began looking around and I have to say it all looks wonderful!

Thank you Simon and Hans and the team at Wizzley for all the hard work!  I can't even imagine....

I've already updated to new intro photos on a few pages since the pics are so nice and big in the profile area - love that!  Looks awesome!!!!!

I'll be discovering more as I edit and write - and thanks to Chef for the new changes - heads up- listed here too.

I hope you will all take a break and enjoy your weekend........

Anyone notice the images have a strip of ambient lighting at the top that matches the background of the wizzle it's attached to? This creates an atmosphere characteristic to the random articles bunched on a page :) Nice touch!

It's like those ambient HDTV's 

Jerrico_Usher: 07/21/2012 - 08:02 AM

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Anyone notice the images have a strip of ambient lighting at the top that matches the background of the wizzle it's attached to?

Huh it's coming in your quote area only the red line isn't disappearing and I can't click below for some reason - anyway good point it looks great :) Hadn't noticed it before

I love the new changes! Our profile page looks so nice!

I think it is really beautiful.  I love the new look.  It is a very attractive way to highlight everyone's pages.  I am loving the visual of it.  I did notice the different colored lines, super idea!  Thanks, we all look very professional!

Were you guys planning to re-add the ability to grey background the monetize modules? My amazon (only one I've checked so far) has no option to shade the background- I like to use that to separate ads from content better... Simon? Hans?

Thanks Simon :) Just published 3 wizzes after a long time - vacations over but still on Holidays from col so will be writing more. 

There were a few problems and I was getting 404 errors saying Wizzley doesn't exist and it happened quite a few times today. Not my cache or browser problem. 

Checked out the HP forums and someone mentioned the same problem 2-3 days ago.

Wow! The stats look amazing - Love it!! Thanks so much Simon 

Hi Simon, sucks about the grey background in monetization mods,  overall mine looked fantastic with it, perhaps if I make a tutorial for it to show people how to use the facilities correctly? , sure some images get messed up but isn't that the authors responsibility not to create dumb looking mods?

I worked with images that didn't mess up the box, but because of a bunch of writers who posted any ol thing I have to live without it? Just please don't take the background from anything else! I need it in images and text especially! My formatting depends on it in many cases... 

In other news...

By the way that new stats page is powerful, just shockingly powerful- really cool...

Chrome Glitches (A lot of people are starting to figure out chrome is one of the best browsers so...)

...FYI I switched to Google Chrome a few months back (and will never go back to FF) and most things work the same (only faster, less glitchier than FF) but there are some Wizzley issues that are driving me mad. 

1. In Chrome (only) when I launch the HTML window to edit code in an article module, it shows up and shrinks the window to a 20 x 20 pixel (completely hiding any remnance of the window) I have to resize this EVERY TIME. I use this a lot so is there any way you could look into why it's doing this?

2. My top buttons often disappear, I'll be in there editing a text file and before I'm ready to leave (buttons WERE there when I opened the window) and ready to hit save, the green buttons disappear completely (like this forum post window looks at the top).

I played with it and discovered the buttons are disappearing if I try to copy (to paste in a new capsule) the text directly from the edit window- I highlight what I want to cut to another text module and at that instant the mouse button comes back up- the buttons vanish (I saw them)... On chrome I didn't have to copy paste through html window (formatting is lost in my FF when I moved text, but in chrome all formatting stays)...

There is no shortcut I can use to make that window save, all I could do was hit shift-F5 to reload the page the way it was (as to not lose work), my solution right now is going back to opening the html window and copying from there to paste elsewhere, but that shrinking window makes this a PITA (pain in the a...)...

I haven't noticed any issues beyond those two so far...

I'll give it a whirl right now... yes FF was the best for a long time, I clutched to it very tightly but the as of late freezups loading (chrome instant, FF 1 minute roughly!), I'm in love with the chrome browser now, but still need to iron out a few bugs like my favorite plugin for oops moments, Lazarus doesn't seem to be useful other than the skinny entry boxes/forms... the bigger ones don't seem to use it at all :( but that's a different discussion...

Jerrico 

Simon, that totally works (the window inline popups)... much nicer thanks! 

On the missing buttons have you tried opening a full text module then copying Highlight right click copy or (shift insert) part of the text... that's the "bomb" that breaks the buttons, not sure why but it's very consistent... and only so far happening when I do that.

Great special effects (like apple products hehe)

I also wanted to add to my review that the aesthetics don't stop at the cool overall shell of the site but in the little nuances you guys have applied from clicking on a comment that's grey (meaning it's not yet read) to the pop up controls (approve button), to the really cool yellow highlighting you apply to  many areas from a new module being inserted to something being removed... has that cool iPhone feel to everything :) Kudos. 

Jerrico

edit I just discovered something...

It's not happening in shorter modules but rather when I move a large block of text into a module then want to select it and copy it to another (cut it into peices essentially)... what I just figured out is "Why" it's removing the buttons when I do this- turns out it's not the actual copy/paste function doing it but the highlight and scroll down.

When I highlight text then highlight scroll (drag highlight down) once it surpasses the current on screen view of the content (starts scrolling down to highlight the rest of the copy in there), this triggers the window to scroll down, and with it the top buttons frame scrolls out.

To test this I did the highlight in the up direction (from middle of text module to the top) and guess what scrolled back into existence? Yep...

Seems your top buttons are tethered and react to the main text input window during scrolling down (not with the scroll bar or down arrow but when highlighting is applied and dragged off screen...

Make sense?

edit 2:

ok back for more...

I played with it and came to realize it's not specifically happening when I highlight scroll UNLESS (in either direction top or bottom) I reach the end of the text and persue pushing my mouse down/up past the edge of the page(by page I mean the module edit box). 

For example if I scroll down I generally hold my cursor just off the page to keep it going till it hits the bottom of the text, once it does that if I'm still giving the command to scroll with the mouse it affects the top buttons, they scroll out of existence as if they were on the page.

When I scroll up the same thing happens but it's harder to scroll up to bring the buttons back (they scroll back down to normal) I have to grab a bunch of text and do it really fast up and to the left if an image is present... maybe this will give you some insight. If it can't be fixed at least I know the reason it's happening and can easily get out of it- before I was just boxed in with no way to save edits other than saving the content changes and reloading the page and reopening the module, pasting it in. Someone less experimental may never figure this out, however.

Jerrico

Simon! A question please do answer this. The stats traffic graph is it from the very start or just from the last updation? If its from the last update - I'd be really happy with my traffic from Google :D :D It looks great and thanks again for the changes.

Jerrico talking about FF - It was the first browser I used (after a few months of IE) and only gave it up 3 months ago for Chrome as it kept lagging uncontrollably. I've been using FF from version 1 point something. 

Lobobrandon, I would think the stats would be from a database (seperate from updates really) and thus when they plug in a new interface (UI) it's just that, a different way to graphically read the database (of built up stats data)...

on FF , they really slowed me down, chrome is like the ferarri of browsers, fast as hell no issues- kinda like FF was after version 4

Jerrico

Jerrico I asked it because after the recent major update, the graphs had to collect traffic from the very beginning again. But, these do look like the all time stats. 

I agree with the way you put it - The Ferrari of browsers :D

Ok that's a great way to do it :) I understood it now and thanks for the explanation :)  So the huge number of google visits are just because of the recent increase and not the actual numbers - haha and I was excited. But, I'm surely glad to know that my google traffic is on the rise now seeing the %age