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After seeing the amount of comment spam increase lately, we’ve decided to take the next step and require membership in order to post a comment. We hope this doesn’t discourage any of you from commenting. We really do love the idea of a two-way conversation, we’re just tired of keeping on top of the spam.
And don’t worry, we won’t spam our members. We promise.
Today we introduce a few changes to our homepage and introduce a couple of new elements. The biggest change we made is moving the category and archive links from the sidebar to a new and improved big footer. This gave us room to better show our portfolio which, until this point, was hidden away like a DVD Easter Egg you might find by clicking the correct combination of six clicks. Now our portfolio is front and center so you shouldn’t have any trouble locating it or ever wondered if it even existed. You can also now subscribe to our blog via email. If you do, you’ll receive one email a day with all of that day’s blog entries. Our RSS feed is still available, but we wanted to offer the email option so that those of you who prefer email can still subscribe. We hope the changes make for a better experience when visiting our site.
Every so often Sundog gets a client wanting to add a poll to their site for one reason or another. Sometimes we’ve rolled one ourselves or in a few cases have tried using a 3rd party solution that’s given us so-so results.
Quimble is one of the better poll providers I’ve come across so far and for those of you keeping score is another web2.0 application built using Ruby on Rails. Polls can be shared or private and can be posted directly on your own site or have it displayed on Quimble (or both I assume). You’re given a variety of ways to display your poll and can even style it to your liking if you choose the CSS route. Polls are easy to create and as far as I could tell there is no limit to the number of answers per poll or the number of polls you can have.
I created my own poll in a matter of minutes including the time it took to set up my account, you can view it after the jump.
We’ve made some changes to our RSS feed that might mean people who previously subscribed will need to resubscribe, we apologize for the inconvenience. However, if you’re reading this post right now in your favorite newsreader that means you have nothing to worry about and may proceed as usual.
Currently Sundog has two feeds you can subscribe to:
For those still scratching your heads over what RSS is in the first place, FeedBurner provides a great overview of what it is and how to use it.