The Trials and Tribulations of a Code Monkey

Well... ok... they will be around lunch time today (Sunday 3rd April 2011). It is all ready to go

I know it is a feature quite a lot of people have missed since we changed the look of the website. Our old chat room was getting a bit creaky and unreliable which is why it never made it over to the new look website. However, we have an all new chat room that is much more stable and has some nice new features too.

Thanks to everyone who has donated to the website recently. ...

Well, actually they never went away, but there was limited visibility of reputations given on the new website when we migrated. That is all fixed now.

When logged in you can view your own (other others) reputations and feedback by visiting the relevant profile page (for example, see my profile).

Once you have opened the profile page, simply click on the 'Reputations' button at the top right hand corner of the profile. This will ...

You can now view a live feed of activity on the Mad About Website by clicking on the Live Feed button at the top of any page.

This page will stream all activity happening across the website in one page.

Time for some more website updates

Time Spent Online

Today sees the return of the Mad About website tracking your time spent online. Yes, now you can see if you are sticking to that new year resolution of spending more time on Mad About Hamsters. Brag to your friends (or feel really depressed!) about the amount of time you have spent online at Mad About Hamsters!

You can see details about your time online:

• Next to any post you make; or
• On

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I have now introduced a new look forum summary at the top of the foum home page, a feature that I know was missed from the old website.

This summary will automatically refresh its contents every 30 seconds even if you do not reload the page in.

You also have the ability to view different statistics by clicking on the drop down menu at the top left hand corner, or the various tabs running along the top right hand side.

I have also changed the format of the sidebar ...