Release Notes

Hello All,

Just to introduce myself as I've not written on the blog before, I'm Carl and I work as a lead web developer at frooly.

I'm sure you've all noticed that from time to time changes are made to either frooly.com or the sites we host for you; either new features or bug fixes for existing ones! well we've decided that we don't always communicate what's been created/fixed as well as we could so going forward whenever we release new stuff I'll be documenting it here on the blog in the form of a short list of release notes. Some of it may sound a bit like technical jargon but they do explain what's been done

So without further a do here are the ones for the content we released yesterday (01/12/11)

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

• Implemented new underpinning technology of how we access data from the database this has allowed us to handle stuff like punctuation in product search without effecting the performance of the site it will also make data access on the whole A LOT faster as we convert old stuff to use the new technology - what you really need to know is it means product search is better/faster and will eventually lead to much better site speed overall
• We now parse out external links in product descriptions
• Changed the signup text to "signup for faster checkout & special offers"
• Changed the no products found text

Client Sites (Your Sites)

• We've changed the big blocky buttons on the client sites to match the smaller/sleeker frooly.com ones
• converted/converting all the buttons to use "sprites"; means that we only load the image once no matter how buttons are on the page, this will speed up performance and has been done for all icons on the site
• General tidying up of some issues on client designs, such as broken forms and cross browser issues

Custom Site Design Fixes (Premium, bespoke designs)

Blue-Eye-Aviation

• finances can now be seen on the finance screen
• fixed a bug where you couldn't access submenu's when logged in

Sleepe-tee

• shop vat/delivery text is once again aligned
• shop search boxes are once again aligned

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed alignment in manage products
• Fixed an issue when adding to basket when using your own domain for your site and the user was logged out
• Fixed an issue where if you went to frooly.com/frooly the site crashed
• Fixed an issue where if you pressed continue shopping on frooly.com after adding to basket it took you to the homepage
• Fixed score breakdown display in IE
• Fixed shareThis in IE
• Fixed facebook comments on product pages not always loading
• Fixed a hover issue if a lot of items in navigation
• Fixed an issue where featured controls showed too many products after edit if you'd changed the number

That's all folks!