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Usability Update to the site

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Where do I start…

Spent most of Thursday night working on the new ‘app’ which will let Kids and adults simply customise their unique colouring pages, got it finished and working, showed my team at work and checked it on a few different machines there, all good.

Got back from work on Friday all fired up and started looking at it again, then started taking a close look at the live site and noticed that its usability is pretty poor, I said you need to fix that or don’t bother adding anything else (and yes I do talk to myself) :)

So it started, page by page (site has over nine hundred pages) going through each one and fixing the ‘printing’ of the pages. Try not to bore you but when you are on a main page e.g.  Teddy Bear Colouring you look at the small thumbnail images and go I like that one and click it, that opens a page containing the big printable picture, if you tried to print that page on Thursday it printed some words and other bits of the page, when ideally it should just let you guys print the main image only.

So that’s what I have been doing the past three days and still not finished, got just over two hundred pages done so far. Tested these in lots of browsers and they even work in early versions of Internet Explorer :)

I need to get the rest done before the new customise app gets released and that will take days to roll out, I’m sure you guys will love the new stuff that’s on its way and I hope the new set up on the pages I have altered makes it far easier and quicker to print the pages off for your Kids.

I’ll possibly have to do a ‘Printing Tips’ as well in the help section of the site. I will say one thing though when its done its going to be such a good site, I think its good now, but it should blow the socks off the rest of the colouring sites out there.

If there’s anything else really bad that I need to know please leave a comment below – Dave

Latest Colouring Update

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Been busy looking after my Mum the past weeks/months up at the Farm, lived up there for nine weeks keeping the farm running while she was recovering from her hip operation. I can honestly say I have never done such long days in my life for such a long time…

Great news is that She’s much better and I’m back home (woop woop)  :)

Bad news for the site is I’ve drawn loads of new original colouring sketches made but no scans or inked up drawings so far and very little new content has been added within that time…

Also while being up there I have had time to get back into photography and on the strength of that have rejuvenated my old Flickr account and started to add new photos of some of the stuff I see and like.

Hopefully will get some new pictures featured soon, really like some of the new sketches and looking forward to sharing them with you guys.

New Bits n Bobs

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Been really busy the past few weeks sorting out the new platform for the Coloring Site along with working out what to feature and what to leave out.

I have also added a couple of new sections including the Kids Word Search and Kids Maze Puzzle sections, totally re worked the navigation on the main section of the site tonight and (eek) I have removed the facebook fan page I created last year  that has 3000+ likes and instead am aiming for likes to the homepage instead (currenty on 28)

Big changes, but I’m sure it will be worth it. Love the fast way of updating the site, its creating loads of free time to create cool new stuff to feature, rather than getting slowed down trying to put it out there.

Tonight’s release (could be a theme going on there) we have two new Dot to dot additions these ones are slightly more complicated 48 and 49 dots to join up and feature teddy bears and also have PDF versions available.

Also got two new Word Search games added and loads more to come, hope you guys like the new additions, as always love to get feedback on my site

Dave