Unraveled

I have been inviting new Ravelers every day and Casey has been busy adding new features since my last post. Thank you and welcome to all the new folks! yay!

I feel like a proud mama- showing off her baby for the first time. Yeah, she drools on herself a little and doesn’t really speak in full sentences, but isn’t she growing up fast? I hope that everyone who has been using the site is finding it interesting so far. It will only get better, the more we all put into it!

Updates:

– There is a new section under your friends tab called Neighbors. This section will tell you what other ravelers knit projects similar to yours. Again, this will be much more interesting once we have more people in there. :)

– In your notebook’s project section, Casey put in a new ‘pop-down’ for entering patterns and yarns. Can you check it out and see if you like it better than the old way? It seems to be loading faster on our computers…

– In the stash section, you can now add yarns to your stash from that page instead of having to go to the yarn section first. You can add yarns that are in Ravelry already and *also* ones that are not in there yet. We do have a lot of yarns in Ravelry but some of the independent dyers do still need to be added.

– You can see who in ‘people’ are in your friends list (little person icon)

– Knitalong section was created- you can now add a knitalong to Ravelry and also add a project to a knitalong. Please give us feedback on this section since we just finished it. Anything else need to be added?

– Now at the bottom of every page, you can find the contact us link in the footer. Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have ideas or problems. We are trying to get to everything people suggest as quick as we can. :)

Class participation time:
Can you guys do me a favor and respond in the comments? (here)

– What browser you normally use?

– Now that you have your projects into ravelry, what do you want to be able to do with them? pdf? list? bound book? what?

Coming soon!
– Casey is working as I write this to add a ‘queue’ section so that you can keep track of what projects you would like to knit in the future, as well as yarns you would like to use. You will be able to integrate yarns from your stash and other people’s projects as inspiration.

– Casey has been working on blog integration- soon you will be able to add your blog posts to the ‘journal’ section in you project notebook. Will be super helpful when looking for info on specific projects to see all the blog posts. We will also be adding a journalling feature for those who don’t have blogs.

Thanks, as always!

If you subscribe to your ravelry comment feed, you will know when people put comments on your projects! You can also subscribe to your favorite peoples’ project feeds so you can see when they add a new project to Ravelry. yay!

Stalk your favorites, you know you want to. :)

To find both of these feeds, go to the feed icon in your project notebook and then paste it in your favorite blog reading software! (bloglines, etc)

You can also subscribe to the feed for all your friends’ projects:

Hi Everyone! It’s Jess!

I am going to use this blog space to keep our wonderful guinea pigs beta testers up on all the new features Casey adds every day and other updates.

I hope this is a good way to do it- I know I don’t need any more emails popping up in my box. Yes/ no?

So last night, our first real night of updates since our Mexico vacation, Casey was busy updated the following:

–People page

• show all Ravelers
• ranks top 9
• search works better

-Project Notebook Page Cleanups

• looks a little better for editing
• more details are shown when viewing other people’s notebooks
• added colorway and color family (project spectrum?)
• added made for (thanks Nikol)

(Since we added a few new fields, those of you who have been with us for a while will need to go back and fill in the information for already entered projects- sorry guys!)

-Added this news blog

Also, I noticed that a bunch of you are not using the smileys and stars for rating projects and yarns… It is my favorite part so check it out! (all found in the project details pages)

Please subscribe to this feed so we can keep you as updated as possible! As always, we really appreciate your help!! HUGS!