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RedLists updates
A few quick but substantial changes to RedLists
- New home page design. Let’s face it, the old one stunk.
- Fluid layout. Fits to width of browser. I’m sorry it wasn’t like this from the start.
- Tightened up forms.
- RSS feeds for messages. Supports authentication.
- Horizontal iPhone support. And just better iPhone layout overall.
- Delete sent messages. Just in case there’s something you don’t want people to see… that you’ve already sent out.
- Draft previewing. Type new message, check “Save as Draft”, click save, click the magnifying glass. It renders any Textile formatting you may have done.
Also, to highlight some list action:
- My Associate Cornelius – from the desk of graphic artist/gig poster extraordinaire A Micah Smith
- Oriole Post Update – a band mailing list for the excellent group Oriole Post
And of course, our very own RedLists mailing list which we haven’t sent out anything on in a while. If you subscribe, expect to see much of this same info brought up again. We’ll be getting some sort of blog up sometime with the same content as the mailing list. Probably using Posterous.
We’ll also be working out pricing plans very soon as we get our payment processing worked out. Not to worry, there will more than likely be a free version. Cheapskates.
RedLists updates
A few things updated on RedLists tonight:
- Textile message support
- This pretty much means HTML support. I tested an HTML mailer I had done before and everything went through, it was just a little botched in different clients. It was all tables and images, no CSS. I’m not going to recommend using this for big-time mini-website emails yet. But it gets the job done.
- List-specific “from” addresses (should have had this to start with)
- iPhone layout
We just sent out an announcement via the RedLists mailing List which you should subscribe to. Just because.
Matt is a genius and has set up a tumblr and subscribed the email-to-post address to the list, so we get a blog of updates. Genius idea, but so far it hasn’t worked. We’re waiting on the email we just sent out to show up on http://redlists.tumblr.com/. Maybe it just takes a while?
Or maybe we’ll be moving to Posterous.
I’ve been working on an iPhone-friendly layout for RedLists. It’s about finished, and it will probably come in handy for some special secret feature that we’re going to integrate soon.
I’m also working on a new landing page which is about 100x better than the current one. It’s a little embarrassing.
This tutorial was a lot of help.
My Associate Cornelius
Matt and I have [mostly] finished working on screenprinter and all-around cool guy Micah Smith’s portfolio website. We built the news, contact, portfolio, and info sections. The store is just a link to his page on Blue Collar Distro.
Micah did the design himself, I mostly just focused on putting the thing together, and Matt made it work. I’m happy with the way it turned out, although I might have to redo some things in the portfolio section to make it more IE friendly. The emphasis is on might. I’m not sure if I want to be friendly to IE users.
The whole thing was built with Ruby on Rails. His blog, which is separate from the Rails server, is powered by Chyrp wearing a custom theme put together by yours truly.
Along with the front-end My Associate User Experience, we’re getting close to finishing a client section where clients can view proofs of current projects. However, this is Top Secret and no one can know about it but you.
Micah is now using RedLists for his mailing list. He’s our biggest user yet. Why not try and outdo him?
REDLISTS update:
- Added mp3 attachments
- Attachments larger than 1MB will be linked to the REDLISTS server rather than attached to the email in order to not exceed inbox limits (and in order for us not to exceed our smtp bandwidth limit, hopefully)
- Subscription form widgets are active. Easily gain subscribers without them leaving your website.
Feel free to try all this stuff out yourself.
I’m doing all this updating here because we currently don’t have a company website. We’ll probably work on it.
Matt and I will also be participating in Rails Rumble this year and we’ve got a pretty cool idea for it.