Month: April 2006

We’ve added some code to each start page so it will auto focus on the search box. While this is a small update, it affects nearly 80% of the pages on the server. Now, when your start page loads, the cursor will already be in the search box. You can even type the URL in there instead of the browser, if you’d like. Just open your browser, type a search string, and hit enter! We believe this will make your browsing experience a little bit better. If you’re having any problems with your start page or there appears to be any errors, please contact us so we can fix it.

We’ve been going over any pages that use span tags and swapping them out in favor of CSS. These additions only affect several pages, but they should make the pages load faster and look better. Any quirks associated with the mouseovers on links should now be gone. We’ve also fixed a few pages that loaded funny in the Opera browser. As always, please contact us if you have any problems.

Right now, we use a combination of some php and the site’s folder structure to index start pages. This method makes the site very speedy, and avoids any possible MySQL errors from occurring. The downside is that this process makes adding pages to the site a very lengthy process. Using MySQL is an alternative we’re going to be considering over the next few weeks.

After many many requests, we’ve created a new category of AwesomeStart themes: video games! Our first two (Doom and Kingdom Hearts) were designed by Eric. The Xbox 360 theme has also been moved into the video game section. When the new Playstation and Nintendo systems are available, they will receive themes as well.

Our next video game theme will be Perfect Dark. We’re currently looking for video game theme requests, so feel free to browse over to the request form and let us know what you’d like to see.