After months of frustration, I finally got these 2 issues figured out and fixed. You are all going to love me, I'm sure. :)
1. Under each person's photo on their main profile page, it now says "Online now" if htey are currently logged in. I currently have no way of adding that information to YOUR page, so you can see all your friends or whatever, so you do have to visit a person's page to see if they are online. Still, quite a nice feature.
2. I've changed how the blog posts are displayed and added better navigation. Each person's profile page now shows five latest posts instead of two. It makes for a longer page, but saves clicking around. At the bottom of each post, there are sometimes links like "First previous 1 2 3 next". They still don't work right. :) BUT, and here is the nice addition.
At the top and bottom right hand corners of the center portion of the page (where the blogs are displayed) there is a little link that says "More". Clicking on that will bring you to the next page of blogs. Once you are on page 2, then there are navigation links at the very bottom left hand corner that say Next, 1,2,3,4,5 or whatever. So you can FINALLY navigate straight backward through time to read all a persons posts without having to go looking through the categories looking for the next post back.
I'm hoping my explanations are clear and that these changes make everything run smoother. If you can't find the links, let me know and I'll try to explain better.
I announced this a while ago, but Covenspacestuff had a feature that prevented people from copying the code. I have finally figured out how to turn that off, so that you can now copy any code from the description areas. This really only applies to the button below, and any of the CSS layouts.
So now you can download the link code for this stylish little button thing, for placement on Myspace pages or any other web pages or profile things. Whatever. The code will automatically insert YOUR profile photo in there, but you need to put your username in the code, instead of where it currently says "pythia".
I'm fairly new to coding and stuff, so I hope this makes sense and will work for everyone. Feel free to send a message to Pythia if you can't get it to work. I think it should be pretty straight-forward, providing you remember to use your own login name (in two spots).
So if you have a page somewhere, add a button and help promote the site.
In an effort to revive the chat room, there is now a little box in your hub that tells you who is chatting. It's on the right, under the calendar. It's a live list of users in the room at that moment. Keep an eye on it, and when you see one of your friends, go in and say hi.
If you are wondering what chat room I'm talking about, it's at http://chatroom.covenspace.com
You need to be a "friend" to the chatroom in order to see the login box.
I'm doing a few changes to the layout and content of your hub pages, so don't be surprised if things are moved around or taken out. If I take something out that you really liked having there, feel free to let me know. I'm just trying to tighten up the format a bit and make it more useful. And yes, there may be a new ad spot going in. Just doing some experimenting. :)
I don't know if something has changed in the coding or what, but I'm getting lots of reports about people busting their pages because of enormous profile photos. I think it used to size them down somewhat, but I'm not positive.
Please DO NOT CHOOSE A HUGE PHOTO FOR A PROFILE PIC. It's supposed to be around 120-200 pixels across, so don't choose one that is 2000 pixels. Don't assume that a large photo will just "fit". If you don't have a photo of the right size, please use one of the default photos until you have one that you can use.
Again, be careful when making changes to your profile photos. Do not use a large photo.
