For those of you that haven't noticed, we have added a digg like capability to judge Pizza Designs based on their name and description. Jay and I have done an initial judging of our favs! Don't be scared! Get in there and judge 'em. For those of you of haven't give names and descriptions to your Pies get in there and do it. See what others think.
Drop on by the gallery and get your judging on!
Someone talked about us, so we added a press page. Stop on by to see information about Tribal Pizza that others have written. If you find a published article about Tribal Pizza that we didn't know about stop on by the press page and let us know.
OK, just rolled out Web Site 1.3. This is probably the last major push of features (except for bug-fixes and improvements) until later in the fall. Really, the web site has all of the capability it needs now. My focus is going to start shifting to work on the back end production systems. I will be coming back to the web site in the fall to handle order delivery, battles, transfer of designs, etc. -- once we are closer to shipping Pies!
Anyways heres whats on spot for 1.3:
Bug Fixes:
1. More broken links!
Features
1. Blog spiffied up! You've probably already seen this.
2. Cheese and Sauce recommendations can be added to Pizza Designs.
3. The ranking system is in place, now you can judge the "coolness" of a Pizza Design's name and description.
4. Pizza Design Gallery layout overhaul -- wow what can I say I was practically embarrassed by the previous Pizza Design Gallery layout. It was 100% hard to use, the new one is much better -- could use some minor improvements though -- I really went with more of a summary style layout (think digg) and I am much happier with it. We are calling the rank of your Pizza Design's name and description its Coolness Factor.
5. Ability to sort items in the Pizza Design Gallery by Coolness or Freshness. Freshness is when was the name and description last updated -- thus allowing you to see recently changed items and judge them if you like.
6. Added the ability for you to submit bugs and feature requests directly into our bug tracking system, case management system. We use FogBugz for defect tracking and we are very happy for it. For those of you not familiar check it out. Emails sent to security@tribalpizza.com, support@tribalpizza.com and questions@tribalpizza.com will be submitted to the appropriate issue queue so we can better serve your needs and requests.
Like I said, next week will really be the last push of capabilities for a while. Mainly we are looking at:
1. Some minor bug fixes and format changes.
2. Charity Pizzas
3. New / Updated Icons for Pizza Designs
4. Any really GOOD ideas you have. Hint! Hint!
Find a bug? Got a groovy idea for a feature? Let
us know. Send email to support@tribalpizza.com and let us here about it!
Jay and I are trying to ease into the groove of weekly updates to the web site. Went a little rough this week, mainly because at the same time I am working on the web site I am serving as GC for the kitchen build out. We launched the 1.2 version of the web site today, this includes a series of bug fixes and enhancements. Several of the bugs were caught by those we know (it helps that we know lots of QA Engineers!) and some of the feature suggestions came from community feedback. Thanks!
Bug Fixes
1. Fixed the Privacy Link -- it wasn't working from all pages.
2. tribalpizza.com and *.tribalpizza.com now redirect to www.tribalpizza.com. This prevents a couple of problems -- folks were getting SSL warnings and our credit card component is only licensed to work on www.tribalpizza.com
3. Bad expiration dates for credit cards were causing a 500 error instead of simply letting the customer know what was wrong.
4. When a pizza design is not available the message you get is more clear that the Pizza Design is already owned by someone else.
Features Added
1. Reset Button added to the search page
2. Email addresses on the site are now mailto links
3. You can review your Referral Transactions to see how much MONEY you are making from referrals. w00t! First checks will roll out right around the first of the month!
4. Referral Graphics were added to make it easy for you to slap a nice graphic on your web site and have your friends sign up and automatically list you as a referral. Also, we slapped down our logo file so if you don't like the graphics we made you can make your own (and tell us how much cooler yours is than ours!)
Check it out !
5. Can send multiple referrals at one time by listing several email addresses at once.
6. Toppings are now sorted and grouped in the Pizza Design search page
7. All references to Pizza Design include their market (just Houston for now)
8. Added the Pizza Gallery where you can review what Pizza Designs others have and see their names and descriptions!
Ok. Here's whats currently on dish for next week! I think you'll like it -- the fun is just starting.
1. Charity Pizzas! Oh this is going to be good, we are going to hook up the support so those who are invited to get a charity pizza can redeem their credit. If you're not familiar with the concept check it out. If you have a good charity in mind let us know.
2. Spiffy up the blog. Jay is going to bring its design inline with the theme on the main site.
3. Add the ability for you to recommend cheese and sauce combinations that work well with your Pizza Design!
4. Oh yeah, now the fun begins. We are going to add a ranking system where the community to rate other people's Pizza Design based on name and description. So time to make sure you got good names and descriptions!
5. A whole bunch of back end reporting and automation stuff. Blah! Blah! Blah! not to interesting to you -- but it makes things work better, faster, cheaper. And yes, we can do metric to english conversions with no problem so landing this sucker should be no problem.
Find a bug? Got a groovy idea for a feature? Let us know. Either at questions@tribalpizza.com or if you want to share with others drop a comment. We are going to start running a weekly post on site changes.
