Started working on a shared database for Venture Cost and Outglobing to gather and create valuable city information. This will take a while, but it will be worth the time!
Sneak peek of what's coming! Nothing set in stone, but I can guarantee it's going to look sweet!
Started sketching on the new City Thumbnail. I really recommend trying Figma if you're normally using Photoshop for sketching. It's my first time using it, and I already understand all tools and properties!
More progress on the logo, getting better and better! I think this is my final version, unless someone has some input of course! Thanks @cedricium for the feedback! 🙏
Tomas Woksepp
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I'll look into it tomorrow, you're right about the graph and I do agree. I think I just got blind adjusting it for too long :D It looks nice when the logo is big, but the graph-line didn't look that nice when the logo is smaller (about 70px). Thanks everyone
Started sketching on a new logo. A more simple look, colors undecided. Any feedback so far? 😇
Tomas Woksepp
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Hmm 🤔 Maybe I should look into combining the two! Thanks for the input!
Re-wrote major parts of how trips are loaded. Instead of loading everything using AJAX, I preload the first chunk in PHP to give scrapers (Google) a chance to find the URLs. I went from having around 24 pages to 151, which is all of them
Tomas Woksepp
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And on top of that, since the first chunk is pre-loaded server-side, the loading time is GREATLY reduced. Check it out here: http://localhost/explore
Switched using FontAwesome JS to FontAwesome CSS. Performance got way better as I already use much JS, and the flickering for all icons are gone when refreshing the page
Added current location based on your current trip. Ended up being way more advanced than I thought, but now it's done!
Sorted categories by alphabetical order (Not sure how I missed doing this months ago)
Cities are now initially loaded back-end to make sure SEO stays good. After filters are applied, it uses AJAX of course
Fixed a bug that reloaded the favicon after closing a popup (Caused by editing the url # hash, even though it was empty)
The current trip is now shown in the Header dropdown for easy access. The plus-sign goes to the trip and auto-opens the Add expense-popup
Disabled Message-button for Facebook users as there's no way to direct them to the users Facebook Profile. Might have to look into some internal messaging later on 🤔
Created a custom 404-Page
Prepared back-end structure for being able to have multiple owners of a trip
Added Admin tools to rebuild caches and re-render images
Started using Google Cloud Storage. Serving pictures became WAY quicker. This will do for now until I can afford AWS S3 I guess 😎 (Decreased loading time by 50%)
Tomas Woksepp
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Disclaimer: The loading time decreased by 50% mainly because the server is located in US, and I am in Thailand.
Expense Autocomplete now shows how many more items matched, but still only displays 5 at most
Wrote a "Backdoor" so I can login to users accounts without traces. Great for when I need to help users with something simple, or just debug stuff
Received Trip data for 2 YEARS (!!!) from @jivings and @dinkydani21. Going through it all to get a better understanding on how to import data, so incredibly thankful 😇
New version up! 🎉 What's new: Facebook login & minor design adjustments
Finished Facebook Login & profile picture syncing! Venture Cost now fully supports Twitter and Facebook 🎉
Number of Travelers instead of just Travelers. Thanks for the feedback @jivings 😇
