Yorkshire Twist - The Journal

This is the second in a series of three posts about the tools I used to build myJournal. The first part talks about my workshop (i.e. computer), this post introduces you to the software side of things.
Part 2: The software
I’ve mentioned several times before that this whole site is built on a system called Wordpress [...]

Wow, long time since I’ve written on here. The reason is I’ve been hard at work making video a much more prominent part of myJournal. You may have seen on the site homepage the new “Featured video” box, and also the “Latest videos” page. We’ve only got half a handful of videos at the moment, [...]

These next few posts may only be of interest to the three other people worldwide as geeky as me, but I’m going to write them anyway as maybe they will serve as a warning to everyone of what will happen if you spend too long on a computer!
Part 1: My Computer and Free Software
Firstly I’m [...]

As many of you will have seen, myJournal is built on the wonderful Wordpress platform. I would have called it a blogging system, but obviously we’ve taken it much, MUCH further than that, so it deserves s bigger title. And it’s all thanks to Wordpress’ great plugin system, which means we can take advantage of [...]

There have been some huge changes happening “under the bonnet” of myJournal. Hopefully you haven’t noticed too many things breaking, but we’re aware of some new – and in some cases quite obvious – bug which we’ll be looking at over the next couple of days.
So what are these changes? In a nutshell we’ve rewritten [...]

We’ve recently made a couple of changes to myJournal to help people keep up to date with what’s happening with all the members.
Firstly, and you’ll have seen this as it’s actually been live for a little while, is the “Who’s online?” feature on the homepage which shows you which users have been active on the [...]

As is (almost) always the case with sites like this, the tweaks have been coming thick and fast. Some bugs have been squashed, some new features added, some features clarified, some instructions made clearer. We’ll soon have a full list of features available, but for now please click around and see what’s on offer.

After many months of development, including some late nights (and even early mornings) this new networking site is finally available for public viewing. We’re not fully open to everyone just yet, we’re still in beta (which we’re calling a Public Preview).
I’ll talk more about the features myJournal offers at a later date, my brain is [...]