MyDropBin: Beta Update

Things have been going fairly well with the testing of the system.  It is sometimes hard to get people engaged in testing it all out.  I find I am like that as well.  An initial burst of activity after sign up and then it tails off.

But I did get some good feedback from what has been done so far.  I thinkk the one major change I incorporated was to the UI, or user interface.  I am no designer, by any stretch.  But I tried to take some feedback and open things up a bit.  I took out a couple of elements, one being the meta-data pane, which form what I heard think confused people more than it really helped.

I will admit, having the code outsourced has been a bit of a challenge, especially recently as I try to tie up all the loose ends.  The main developer on the project that was working my stuff got married and was away from work for several weeks with little to no work being done to remedy the final bug fixes.  I am no programmer by any means as well, but I have been doing what I can to get in and learn and not only be able to troubleshoot and fix issues, but also to add new features.

I was proud of myself the other day for setting up a user admin page for users to be able to change their password.  It may sound simple, but it took a bit as it was my first foray into php connecting to my database and all … good thing I had a backup, right ?

There are still some outstanding issues I am working to get resolved and tie up this set of development.

• users getting undefined in the From area when attempting to email a link to an item directly after uploading it.  I have figured out what is happening here, just need to get it fixed.
• Few CSS issues with IE still to fix (If only I used Windows I could see the problem more often )
• Issue with the Javascript bookmarklet when attempting to bookmark a page with numerous images.

Those are the main ones.  Last time on my list was the integration of Amazon DevPay, which will allow a signal registration process with MyDropBin and an Amazon account.  Amazon just updated DevPay fixing an issue whcih was stopping my integration, so I am now going to start looking for some help in getting this taken care of.