Big Expansion in Milwaukee
Through dilligent and long overdue research, we have expanded our Milwaukee section. The number of bars has already doubled, and we hope to triple it before the month is out. October 1, I will actually be in Milwaukee helping my sister move, so if anyone wants to meet me and discuss the page, or just wants to buy me a beer, feel free to email me at drinktown[at]gmail[dot]com.
Also we could use more staff, particularly people in Milwaukee willing to spend time each day updating the map for that city. If you are interested, please let me know.
Patrick
DrinkTown Development Blog
Friday, September 22, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Improved Loading
Due to the size of the larger maps, the pages were recenlty slow to load, particularly in IE.
First let me say that the problem has been worked on, and we think we have an working solution.
Second let me recommend Firefox to everyone. If you don't have it, you should. It runs most of the internet faster and more efficiently. The Google maps programs work much better in FF, and I generally use it when testing code.
The changes I made should work in both browsers. I streamlined some of the loading processes, and graphics, and I simlified what I could. I also added a status window that should pop-up during the initial load and tell you how many of the bars have been loaded to the map.
Patrick
Due to the size of the larger maps, the pages were recenlty slow to load, particularly in IE.
First let me say that the problem has been worked on, and we think we have an working solution.
Second let me recommend Firefox to everyone. If you don't have it, you should. It runs most of the internet faster and more efficiently. The Google maps programs work much better in FF, and I generally use it when testing code.
The changes I made should work in both browsers. I streamlined some of the loading processes, and graphics, and I simlified what I could. I also added a status window that should pop-up during the initial load and tell you how many of the bars have been loaded to the map.
Patrick
Ignoring the blog
Sorry I've been ignoring the blog lately, but I've been writing so much code and doing so many design changes I forgot to update the blog as well.
As most users will have noticed most (but not all) of the page has undergone some serious design changes meant to improve the look of the page.
Additionally, Drinktown became the #1 response when googling: 'Chicago Bar Specials' or Chicago Drink Specials'. Thanks Chicago.
Patrick
Sorry I've been ignoring the blog lately, but I've been writing so much code and doing so many design changes I forgot to update the blog as well.
As most users will have noticed most (but not all) of the page has undergone some serious design changes meant to improve the look of the page.
Additionally, Drinktown became the #1 response when googling: 'Chicago Bar Specials' or Chicago Drink Specials'. Thanks Chicago.
Patrick
Friday, July 07, 2006
Major IE bug fixed.
Much to my chagrin, I discovered today that the page has not been working in Internet Explorer for some time. I honestly had no idea, as the FireFox version of the page has been operating perfectly. I personally use FireFox (it works best with google maps), and no one had emailed me a notification that the page was down.
I aplogize for this decrease in the quality of service. I hope that in the future there will be no such further outages.
Patrick
Much to my chagrin, I discovered today that the page has not been working in Internet Explorer for some time. I honestly had no idea, as the FireFox version of the page has been operating perfectly. I personally use FireFox (it works best with google maps), and no one had emailed me a notification that the page was down.
I aplogize for this decrease in the quality of service. I hope that in the future there will be no such further outages.
Patrick
Monday, June 12, 2006
D.C.
Hey everybody, I would have put this in the blog sooner, but Blogger has been down.
Last week I added Washington DC to the list of cities to have a map of specials. Washington grew out of a request that I add it, and from expanding the Baltimore bars, which recently doubled.
Anyway, we now have 46 bars in Washington DC. Enjoy!
Patrick
Hey everybody, I would have put this in the blog sooner, but Blogger has been down.
Last week I added Washington DC to the list of cities to have a map of specials. Washington grew out of a request that I add it, and from expanding the Baltimore bars, which recently doubled.
Anyway, we now have 46 bars in Washington DC. Enjoy!
Patrick
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Search Pages! (Baltimore, Bloomington, Chicago, Milwaukee)
I've just added the new Search Pages. Using a text box on the page, you can enter a simple search phrase to find exactly what you are looking for.
Want Guinness? Enter Guinness into the box and the page will return only those bars that have specials with word "Guinness". Enter the word "wings" and the page will return only those bars that have specials with the word "wings". Pretty cool, no?
Just one word of warning. Specials with things like "all beers" won't turn up when you search for guinness, so if you don't like the results you get, try some alternative phrases and you might find a good alternative.
Patrick
I've just added the new Search Pages. Using a text box on the page, you can enter a simple search phrase to find exactly what you are looking for.
Want Guinness? Enter Guinness into the box and the page will return only those bars that have specials with word "Guinness". Enter the word "wings" and the page will return only those bars that have specials with the word "wings". Pretty cool, no?
Just one word of warning. Specials with things like "all beers" won't turn up when you search for guinness, so if you don't like the results you get, try some alternative phrases and you might find a good alternative.
Patrick
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Have you checked out our new Submission Form?
On the older version of Drinktown, I had a pretty plain and ugly form by which people could submit specials for me to add to the map.
A few weeks ago I added a new Submission Form, one that allows you to tell me about a special, or a bar, that you think I should add to the map. The form allows you to submit the name, address, phone number, and any specials you know of. It also includes a handy little map window that lets you click on the map to tell me where the bar is located. Check it out, send us specials, or tell us which bars we are missing.
In the meantime, I'm wrapping up Law School, and will be updating the pub-crawl pages as soon as I am done.
Patrick
On the older version of Drinktown, I had a pretty plain and ugly form by which people could submit specials for me to add to the map.
A few weeks ago I added a new Submission Form, one that allows you to tell me about a special, or a bar, that you think I should add to the map. The form allows you to submit the name, address, phone number, and any specials you know of. It also includes a handy little map window that lets you click on the map to tell me where the bar is located. Check it out, send us specials, or tell us which bars we are missing.
In the meantime, I'm wrapping up Law School, and will be updating the pub-crawl pages as soon as I am done.
Patrick
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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