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It’s tied into our blog. That way, each time we post a blog entry, you’ll be automatically notified through Twitter. It couldn’t be any easier.
You’ll notice in a few places that we’re using some new CSS message boxes. You’ll notice them primarily when you’re updating things in your account. You’ll see these nice, noticeable green boxes letting you know the update worked. You may also see some red ones here and there when there is some sort of error.
Yes, this looks cooler and makes us a little more Web 2.0 (CSS, social networking, tons of AJAX) , but much more importantly, it helps our users. The more clear, easy to use, and intuitive the interface is, the more satisfied our users will be, and the better we’re ultimately do.
We’re always trying to make the site as fast and as easy-to-use as we can.
Awhile ago, we put in some cool image loading and transitions. When you’d click to enlarge, it would grey out the screen and stuff. You could press next and it would zoom around and resize the window for it. It looked pretty cool.
The problem is that this used a rather large javascript library. And, while it was cool, it was slowing down every profile page load because of the javascript library it had to include. So, we decide to take it back a little bit. When you click on an image, it just goes to another page with the images on there. This significantly decreased the loading speed of the profile pages. It will also allow us to track image views (so we know the top viewed images) and comment on specific images instead of just the profiles. Look for these features coming soon.
The other day we did some upgrading on the site. All of the upgrades were transparent. The only thing you will notice is that things load faster.
Without getting into it too much, we did some upgrades to Apache. Apache is the server that runs Prime Modeling. There are certain tweeks you can do to Apache to speed up the site. These things relate mainly to caching. Long story short, we increased the caching that your browser will use on our site.
To reiterate, there is nothing different about how the site works. The only difference is that it will work faster.
We have launched a new features.
Now, from any profile page, an agency can easily request more pictures in a single click. This lets you know that they are interested without any real work from the agency. They may be on the fence about you and haven’t made up their mind yet. This feature aims to solve this.
In response to user requests, we have added the ability to comment on profiles.
In keeping with our theme of open access, anyone can comment on any profile at anytime. The comments are displayed on the bottom of the profile page. Comments are visible to anyone that visits our website.
You may want to say that you like someone’s look or you may want to say that you don’t. Whatever you want to say, go ahead and say it. We will moderate comments to delete anything inappropriate.
If someone comments on your profile, you will automatically be sent an email letting you know.
This is just a friendly reminder to always be careful when using the messaging system. You do not want to give out any sensitive information.
Never give out bank account information. Never give out anything that an agency wouldn’t need. Just be careful.
We’ve touched on this several times in the past, but this is another friendly reminder that the picture you upload is the single most important thing you can do on Prime Modeling.
Time and time again, members upload fuzzy, grainy, and images that are just too small. The picture you upload represents you. The better your picture is the better you look. If you can’t see your face, do you think agencies can see your face?
Here are some tips to help get you on your way to better images
Follow our simple tips and you’ll be on your way to better pictures!
Due to some fancy cross domain scripting and some better load balancing, you’ll notice several things faster in the site now.
We are utilizing prime-modeling.com as well as primemodeling.com to do the maintenance of the site. Long story short, you’ll notice a lot of things happening in half the amount of time. You’ll still want to use primemodeling.com when you access the site. You could go to prime-modeling.com if you really wanted to, but it would just redirect you to primemodeling.com.
This is a very nice enhancement. No downsides, all upsides. Faster site.