Completely Free Dating Blog http://blog.completelyfreedating.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 completelyfreedating/bloghttp://feedburner.google.com Sort by nearest http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/sort-by-nearest http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/sort-by-nearest#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:20:16 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=89 We have recently added a new feature to the search results page, the ability to sort the results by ‘nearest’. Two things to know about the new feature.

  1. It is only available when you are logged into the site and you have filled in your ‘postcode’ in your profile. If you have not done this yet, simply go to ‘Account Setting’ from the Members Menu and you can added it there.
  2. When you sort by ‘nearest’ you may find that you get slightly less results. This is because we can only order by distance for other people that have filled in their postcode.

Hope you like the new feature. Keep you eyes on the blog for more as we are working on the site all the time to make it better. As always, if you have any suggestions please remember to either leave a comment on the blog or put a post in the suggestions forums on the site.

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]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/photo-upload-fixes/feed 0 Bug fixes http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/bug-fixes http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/bug-fixes#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:41:42 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=84 Just spend several hours going over the error logs and fixing as many minor bugs as I could find. Hopefully this will make the site less prone to errors that people see, so far it is looking good, no new errors in the logs since the fixes were uploaded!!! Next it is on to fixing a bigger issue with the photo upload section that seems to be affecting some people every now and again. As also, if you have any suggestions please remember to either leave a comment on the blog or put a post in the suggestions forums on the site.

]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/bug-fixes/feed 0 Updates to site http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/updates-to-site http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/updates-to-site#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:58:40 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=80 We have made several updates to the site other the last couple of weeks and we just wanted to let everyone know about them. The updates are as follows:

  • The search results page has been updated with a new look for the top section of the page where the ‘refine search’ and result summary appears. The new look has been designed to make things clearer and more useable. We have also added a “sort results by” options to allow you to re-order the search results so you can find that special someone even quicker.
  • The “In Your Area” option on the members menu know only shows members in your area that are the gender you are looking for and that are looking for your gender. For example if you are man looking for a women, it will now only show you women looking for men in your area.
  • The “Viewed me” page now shows the location of the people that have viewed you.
  • We have added two new forums, by user request, these are “Books” and “Food and Drink”.

We have more updates in the pipeline and we will of course update the blog when they are released. In the mean time if you have any requests please add them either to the “Suggestions” forum on the site or leave a comment on blog post.

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]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/minor-updates-to-site/feed 0 Secure Registration Page for UK site http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/secure-registration-page-for-uk-site http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/secure-registration-page-for-uk-site#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 10:32:52 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=71 The UK site now has a secure (SSL) registration page and the SSL is going to be rolled out to over parts of the site, like the messaging system, very soon. Keep an eye on the blog for further updates on this and everything going on with the site.

]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/secure-registration-page-for-uk-site/feed 0 Facebook Like Button http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/facebook-like-button http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/facebook-like-button#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 17:31:28 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=67 We have just added a Facebook ‘Like’ button to all our dating advice articles so if you like one of the articles and want to tell your friends on Facebook about it, simply like the ‘Like’ button on the article page and if you already logged into the Facebook it will automatically share and if not, it will pop up a box for you to login. Simple.

]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/facebook-like-button/feed 0 Web of Trust – Rate Us http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/web-of-trust-rate-us http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/web-of-trust-rate-us#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 21:36:37 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=64 We are trying to improve confidence in the site so that people looking for a site like ours know that we are genuine, good and well run site. One thing that will help us with this is having a good rating on Web of Trust and being able to use their “trust seal” on our site. To do this we need more ratings on Web of Trust.

So, if you think we are a good, honest and trust worthy site then could I ask you to spare five minutes and rate us please.

irst you will need to register (if you are not already), using the link below:

https://www.mywot.com/en/user/register

Once registered and logged in, visit our score using the following link, rate us and leave a comment.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.completelyfreedating.co.uk

Thanks very much in advance.

Andrew.

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1. The search process

About a week ago we introduced a new search facility to replace the old one, which fixed some of the problems with the previous version and is more user friendly. On the search results page there is now a “refine search” box at the top of the page (instead of in the left hand column) which shows ALL the options you have selected and allows you to change them to refine your search and help you find exactly what you are looking for, quicker and easier than before. These changes where based on the feedback from the members survey we carried out recently.

2. Login speed

Also about a week ago we managed to identify an issue that sometimes caused the login process to take 10 seconds or more and sometimes completely fail. This has now been fixed and we have monitored it and since applying the fix the issue has not occurred.

3. Postcode data

Today we have applied an update to the postcode data we previous had. The new data is far more complete than the previous data set and has been made possible by the Ordnance Survey OpenData project which went live on April 1st (see BBC News). We would like the thank Ordnance Survey for being forward thinking and making this extremely useful data openly available.

These are all the updates for now, more are to follow and we will update the blog as and when they are applied. All comments are very welcome.

]]> http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/fixes-and-updates/feed 0 New photo upload facility http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/new-photo-upload-facility http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/new-photo-upload-facility#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:43:15 +0000 andrew http://blog.completelyfreedating.com/?p=55 As we said yesterday, one of the things that came out of the members survey was that many members had been having problems uploading their photos to the site. Today we have completely re-engineered the photo upload facility to hopefully be easier to use and more reliable. You can now upload up to five photos at the same time and we have added some extra error capturing detect any issues and let us you what the problem is (e.g. wrong file format, etc…).

The editing of uploaded photos remains the same, simple click the photo and a little menu will appear with options to allow you to make the photo your main photo, delete the photo or add a caption to the photo.

We hope this change is useful and makes that part of the site easier to use, please feel free to leave a comment.

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