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Profile Page
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/21/2008
Well I finally started to modify the profile page for the website. Soon your user account details will be displayed nicer and hopefully within a week of those changes we can start unleashing some real user functionality for registered members.
Remember signing up to Design Blocks will provide you with a fantastic and free way of promoting yourself to the whole world. We aim to help you in every way possible, what have you got to loose?!
Member Profiles
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/17/2008
This post is very important to our registered members. I am currently working on the design of the user profile page and soon it will display all the information you submitted to the site upon registration. As you will know user profiles only display your username, current location and your description text. This will be changing in due course and don't be shocked to see us sending an email asking you to submit more info and possibly an avator etc.
This functionality and user interaction is more than likely going to take about a month to implement into the design so your patience is again much appreciated. I am hoping to get some time most days to work on how I want the profile pages to appear but bare with us. In the mean time why not sign up to the RSS Feed and Newsletter.
Again I want to express my thanks to everyone who has signed up to this resource website and we hope you are the first (but not last) to benefit from the site.
Site Issues Resolved
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/14/2008
Hello,
Thanks to the hard work of my programmer, Ahmed, the websites search, blog comment and user posting security issues are now all resolved.
The search field wasn't functioning a few days ago but now you can search the Design Blocks Blog for any of the entries made by myself or other staff members. Blog comments can now be performed properly with the fixing of the text entry fields (i.e. Name, Email and website), which would not allow more than 18 characters to be entered.
Ahmed also changed the user area so that standard members can no longer post random or potentially offensive blog posts once registered. All members will have to now go to our recruitment area and submit an application to become a Design Blocks Author.
Categorised Membership
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/08/2008
After finding a bit of a security issue with new membership accounts I have asked the coding team headed up by Ahmed to stop new members from being able to post blogs.
The new way to conteract this issue is to remove the ability for members to create blogs and instead make them email a member of the team at flourish[at sign]designblocks[dot]co[dot]uk for an author membership upgrade.
To see the criteria for becoming an author on designblocks.co.uk view the See Whats Available page.
Ready Steady GO
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/05/2008
Hi and welcome to the first post in what I hope is a long lasting and popular resource website for hopeful designers from all fields of the creative arts. I came across the idea of designing a site for self promotion of peoples artwork November 2007. I, like many frustrated designers, found it hard to get any traffic to my website(s) and realised it wasn't going to happen if I just used plain HTML and CSS, I would need to utilize the sites potential with a coding language and a real purpose based on research and careful planning.
After finding a most amazing coder named Ahmed (view his profile :D) I was able to not only concentrate on the design side of things but I could have someone do the tricky coding parts to the site and release within a much quicker time frame.
This website will have issues, hopefully not too many (please!), but it will eventually bring you and other designers the oppertunities you work hard to deserve. I hope you enjoy the site and its resources.
