February 23, 2005
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NEW LOOK AND FEEL
We’re excited to announce a revamp of our Look & Feel settings!
It’s a big change, so we thought we’d do a beta-test first. So
without further ado, please check out our new Look & Feel settings
here:The new look & feel settings offer:
- Real time previews
- Advanced color pickers for all users
- Full hexcode support
- New and improved border controls
- One click support of transparent backgrounds
- Improved security (you’ll have to sign on again, as a security precaution)
Please take a look and let us know what you think. Also, let us
know if you see anything weird – this new feature is still in
beta!. Any changes you make will be live on your site, so please
be careful. Here’s that link again:
Comments (163)
Thanks a LOT!
It takes some getting used to but is an upgrade in better function. I actually prefer the new extra login policy if it is an extra step to prevent the inconveniences that go along with having your account hacked.
WOHOO!!!
Might want to resize some of those input text boxes in the header section.
thats so cool!
I just used it and it worked fine, and it seemed really user friendly to me!
Seems ok to me, and I have NO problem with having to sign in again. BUT…are you all going to ever do anything with that java box section besides chatterboxes? At one point you’d said that you had other uses in mind for it.
i like all the new changes =)
p.s. have you guys ever thought about making multiple subscription lists? like a list for people you are regularly subscribed to and a second list for people you want to make sure not to miss (this is partly for us people who are subscribed to way to many people)
~it could be a 2nd tab on the your subscription list….next to protected
p.p.s. have you ever thought about having a group of xangans who could give you input on a regular basis on how to improve xanga? =)
that is WAY cool it helps me alot =D
Way cool!
cool, thanks a lot =]
freakin awesome
Ehhh.
You guys needa expand the PROTECTED LIST for the PROTECTED POST though.
its a lot cleaner. it’ll take some getting used to, but i like it.
Wow! This is aweseome. Thanks so much, guys.
i REALLY like this!
way easier to understand for the newbies and still gives experienced people room to be creative with their layout.
major thumbs up.
its a hassle to sign in again, but i suppose the added security is worth it. <3333333
LOVE IT!!!! That make things so much easier. Bravo
~jackie
Pretty damn awesome!!
thumbs up!
It’s great! Does the improved security protect viruses from adding unwanted codes in the look & feel?
Ooooh. Very nice
What’s the word…. Oh yeah!
w00t!!!1
*pleaseletthisbeagoodthingpleaseletthisbeagoodthingpleaseletthisbeagoodthing*
wow thats great!
errr, I get an error when I’m trying to log in
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that’s pretty spiffy! much better even if we hafta deal with the security thing….
cool! do you think we will ever be able to post from our email?
the added security is really awesome…hope it works out! =]
I REALLY like that. Nice work.
awesome!
Wow, this is really great! Easy to manage, nice variety of colors…But…what happened to Website Stats? Where do we put the info that should/used to go in there?
Thanks again! Keep up the great work! xD
OH FOOTER HAHA GOTCHA! Ok x]
very cool, the separation of categories is much more convenient!
i like it so far. =) you guys are great.
This will probably benefit the newbies a lot.
i still am pushing for a confirmation click while navigating inbetween pages (styles, modules, settings).
Thanks, John, and thanks to all you’s at Xanga!
i think its wonderful!! keep up the great work you all.
um.. when i go to the module header page, the box to insert codes is too wide. it makes the module on the left weird. so yah.. can u fix it? thanks =]
alright…i like most of it. looks nice and crisp. i’m a straight line freak…boxes and all that so yah, i like the look.
question:
do i need to move my background from what’s now the “footer” to the “background” space? (i never had it there before…i always just stuck it in the “footer” section and it worked. just wondering if it’ll matter one way or the other.)
suggestion [keeping in mind i don't know much about all this]:
i think it’d be nice if, on the page marked “comments” you had the code there to make the comments sections different colors. or, instead of the code, have the question:
do you want your comments sections to be different colors? Yes__ No__ and then color choices for those who chose “yes”.
just a thought. like i said, i don’t know how much trouble that would be or if it’s even feasible.
Love it! Keep up the good work!
OK.. I’ll try it. I hope it’s easy on the bandwidth.
Awessssooooome
groovy-ness.
any plans on offering more default fonts for look & feel? there’s plenty in the xtools, but only a handful in look and feel
ummmmmmmm.. but I prefer the old one
I prefer all stuff include in one page..
anyway.. u did a nice job..
Looks good! Will definately help out the newbies.
Only one problem ive noticed so far: I’ll make a change.. save it, and then when i go back after clicking around a bit? My front page has gone back to the old settings.. (am i making sense here?) It seems to be only temporarily saving the changes…
oo0o0 i like it ^_^
it makes everythin easier, so we don’t have to preview da whole page–which takes 2 much tym 2 load and stuff =P
you rock! thanks for all your hard work to keep xanga so awesome!
i loveeeeeee it! <3333!!!
Awesome
!
it’s great!!! I love it!
Live editing? So hot.
Awesome!
the BETA version makes life so much easier, I’m in love with you guys!
its…ok….
lanie
All this work and you still can’t get the team to scoop that ice cream up for you….
Will ask NFP if he can help……
awesome very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesoooome. (applause)
These are some major improvements… well done!
good and easy! easy to use and easy to look at!!
WOW!
You never cease to amaze me.
its great!!!
Well done, you keep making this place better and better.
I think it’s awesome!!! I learned awhile ago how to tweek my look n feel to do what I wanted (without being malicious to xanga’s codes) but there are so many that just don’t understand html/css/java enough to grasp the concept…I think this will be the miracle they’ve been waiting for. Great job!
Im not sure if this is related, but this morning, the problem im encountering is with the”pic” feature.. I click on it, choose a file (ive already uploaded) from the dropdown list, and hit submit.. and then nothing happens. odd….
..and, it seems i have to re-log in my username and password every time i close the browser window.
John, this is awesome.
nice
well, i like the format, it looks similar to the profile settings one, but my header….i dunno how to edit it now. some of us like to change our headers around alot using custom html. like me with my glowy text. there doesn’t seem tyo be a box where my header html was. just the javascript, which everything was there.
everything else is a thumbs up.
-josh
aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome!!
w00t! Thanks john!
kool
good coding for that…
makes things easier…in a way
peace out..
I don’t like it
It was much easier having custom header right there for my layouts and css
I bet it’s great… I am just scared to use it now that I have my page just the way I want it LOL
I am all for the extra-login, and I’m fine with adjusting to this version of claf.
I’m likin it!
OMG! IT’S KOOL! KEEP IT LIKE DIZ! BUH BYE!
ND HOLLA
BYEEEEE
yea its cool
NICE!
When do we get them for real???
Radio buttons eg profile pctures to show on your comments…
I get yes/no between the two buttons and can’t tell which is yes or no, this is also a hang-up from the existing settings for any of the yes/no choices.
looks something like this:
yes
0no0
AWESOME.oh yea, i was wondering about hte multiple subscription lists too. thanks anyways!
awesome. i love it.
Woo hoo! Very nice! Thanks so much!
i dont like it all.
Thank you!
Have a good one.
Cheers,
Jenni
i tried it but now when i log into my xanga and click on the ‘look and feel’ link, i get an error page?? help?
yay! thank u! <3
whoa thats a lotta of information .. its a lotta mor complex than the ol 1.
Cool *
i like it!!
cool
thats hot.
..::~~Insane Layouts~~::..
dhis ish cool. =]
I like it. Less confusing! Where do we put codes in the new one though?
I Love the new Look & Feel!
love it
Is that what you think?
No way jose! I would Never do that!!!
-BOOOOYA!
oooh i like this a lot. it makes it soo much easier to customize the xanga site. =)
can you expland the protected post list to 20 or something. the new look and feel looks good. Can we have a choice of either the old look and feel and the new one. i like the old one better though.
Very nice!
wow. its a lot better. nice job.
its nice…but im so used to the other one, this is gonna take a while for me to actually get used to, but i guess if your new it will help make a lil more sense…i still kinda like the old one..im gonna miss it :’( but hey thats just me…
wow, this is awesome. great job guys.
omg. this is very awesome!
Neat enhancements
Is this the reason for the bugs lately? because you want to make xanga look and feel look better??? I mean it looks ok … I just rather xanga actually worked when we needed it too *sighs* I don’t care about it being ‘trendy’ …
Wow! It’s awsome. Are you guys keeping it?
thats great so when does this come available??
LOVE the color swatches and mini previews !!
random prop…
That’s a really nice layout. It’s very user friendly.
There is a whole lot you can add to BETA/ the new Xanga. If you are intereted Check out this Blog.
Sail on… sail on!!!
John — you’ve got some big time Trojan issues with Xanga. A really nasty one invated my computer after visiting and clicking on a couples pages yesterday, and now every time I try to post certain words in my post automatically become links to some advertising sites. Any insight into this problem?
it’s a bit confusing… i like the old version better : sorry.
Great addition!!!
I like it lots!
I do kind of have a concern. I didn’t know until that you could only have on protected list. Is there anyway to have a different list for different posts? Just wondering…
It works well, it does take some getting use to but that’s with anything. Just a random thought but it would be great if there was a feature to allow us to block users from viewing out site at all not just from commenting and subscribing.
pretty cool mite take sum gettin used to
hey sexxxxyyyyy …… whats up ?
hey sexxxxyyyyy …… whats up ?
i love it! its terrific– not as confusing as the old one, and a lot neater.
nice!
wow john, this is the first time i saw you featured!
its great but the size keeps changing so it messes up the screen it jumps from 100 percent to 800 percent i mean its easy enough to fix but just wanted to let ya know bout that
nice!!
yeah, i have the same problem as treasure of canada. except mine won’t fix, every time that i save it as 100 %, it just jumps back to 800 once i leave the look and feel page. all the other changes you made are great, but my site is just a bit messed up with this screen size thing.
okay, this is a followup to my last comment. when i go to the link you gave for the look and feel, and i save changes, it goes to 800. but if i close that window, and just go to my site, it’s back to normal. don’t really understand what is going on with the new look and feel window–why it made changes…and don’t really understand why the changes that didn’t actually change my site.
I dont like it.
I have a problem with it. For some reason, it keeps changing my page width to 800%. I reset the page width to 100%, and save, but then when I look at my page, it resets it to 800%.
Hi just wondering who u are??
Slick.
I also wondered what functionality might be added in the future to the Javascript module. Specifically, I would like to be able to put a del.icio.us rss feed on the right-hand side as a place for external links others might be interested in. But I haven’t found any way to do it, and I’m not sure that premium would have that capability. I know this is a little offtopic, but I couldn’t find an FAQ that addressed it, nor for the life of me could I stumble across an email address that didn’t link to legal or billing or something like that. Thanks for the cool work y’all do!
it’s confusing!! but i’ll get used to it if i have to..
i like it, it’s efficient
It’s cool, but a little confusing, lol.
WOAH !!! Thankies !!! ^.^
I and a friend have noticed that over the last couple of days http://www.xanga.com has become very uncooperative with megaproxy (secure non-javascript browsing). Links hang and hang and hang. This is new-never happened before. It’s not megaproxy itself since on non-xanga sites things are fine. Is there anything new in production already that would explain this?
Beta.xanga.com, on the other hand, flows very smoothly with megaproxy. Will putting beta into production make ordinary xanga browsing under megaproxy smooth again?
I have noticed something strange about beta. I wrote (actually rewrote) a script that requires a person to login into xanga before visiting a person’s blog.
It’s here:
http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=chocolate&tab=weblogs&uid=188173019
Several peeps indicated an interest in this script in order to help keep anonymous stalkers at bay.
However, under beta, the redirect to the login page occurs even if a person is already logged in. Hence, nobody can ever read the site. Not even the blogger him/herself. Total denial of access. Will this effect transfer over to production? If so, I should give heads up those I know who are using it or they will be very, very confused.
Any clue on how to fix the script if it gets broken by new production changes?!
Thanks.
Then where are we going to place our HTMLS? Or am I missing something..
i like it. its very organized.
That’s awesome. I love that.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
I have written SEVERAL letters and none have been answered. I would like to know why you all continue to post the FREEBIES and NO WINNERS!!!!!
This would be considered FALSE advertising wouldn’t it????
PLEASE POST A LIST OF ALL PAST WINNER FROM THE LAST CONTEST OR LET ME KNOW WHY WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THE WINNERS LISTS!!!!!!
Tina
your aweseome
well, my username tracker died.
and i don’t like the million pages
and how it’s geared towards those stupid beginners
what about us custom page-freaks?
one page was good for us.
and we knew where everything was.
gr i get to go mess around with it now.
that’s hot.
interesante
interesante
Thank you.
this is sweet
i like the new look…very cool.
but i was wondering why the blogrings are unavailable right now?
No offense…. But I like what we’ve got allready.
I like the overall concept more, but the change of having to click on the left module to get to certain parts of the CLAF will begin to get on my nerves, because the custom header and footer are the only parts I ever edit.
its much better thank you ^_^
hey i had a question, how come it says my comments only go up to 255, but ive gotten like 260 on 1 post but it says 255, help me out
Love the interface, but the transparent borders seem a little buggy, especially in Firefox. (They’re not REALLY transparent in Firefox…)
What’s up with the blogrings module?
whooooooo your the man
John
whoooooooos the man your the man John ****
two thumbs up!
i got linked here after xanga.com/claf wasn’t working for me..
is it just me, or does the old xanga.com/claf not work for anyone?
i like the other one better, not as confusing!!
Otaii…yooh gotta do dis…….send dist ah 15 ppl in the next 143 min. and then press f6 and yor crushes nayme will appear in BIG LETTERS!!!!! It is so scarii cuz it works……but if yooh break da chain, yooh will b cursed wit relationship problems for da next 10 years!…..send it tah 15 ppl in da next 143 min…..
I have been noticing that your security detail has been upgraded. Good Job!
yay
how come the music doesn’t work anymore? please please, PLEASE get back to me on that<3
Woo-hoo! A member of the Xanga team’s blog! Well, I just decided to comment here because of the opportunity to increase traffic to my site. Selfish, huh?
Just want to take some time and thank you all for your hardwork on xanga. Thanks again!