TravelPod News

I thought I would post about some smaller enhancements we made to TP this week while I drink my Saturday morning coffee…

We’ve been a little distracted by interviews this week ( BTW, we’re hiring Developers if you’re interested ) so nothing earth shattering but we did add a few things:

- We added some usability enhancements like autoselect on our homepage and login page. Now you can just start typing your search query or your login name without having to select the field ( one less step ).

- We added the “Latest Forum Post” section to the homepage to show the last post to our forums.

- We also fixed a nagging bug that some members wrote in about when having problems posting comments.

- We added a new header for this blog that you’re reading now.

… and a couple other small things not worth mentioning.

Like I said, nothing earth shattering but we’re always improving the site and try our best to keep you up to date.

We’ve got bigger things in the works, stay tuned.

Enjoy the weekend! 

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Due to popular demand we have brought back the “Photo Teaser” that show thumbnails at the top of your entry when you’ve weaved entries into your entries. This will now show up if you have added photos into your entry text yourself.

Just a reminder that if you have a large number of entries and need help disabling “Automatic Photo Weaving” just contact support and we’ll take care of you.

Happy Travels,
Clayton

The new TravelPod homepage was launched today. It’s a long awaited overhaul and greatly simplifies ease of use (hopefully) … and it’s pretty. Let me know what you think by responding to this blog post or emailing me.

Cheers,
Shaun

The Traveler IQ Challenge ( Amazing Race Edition ) is live on the CBS.com website!

 Check it out

UNESCO has just launched our UNESCO Traveler IQ Challenge on their web site.  

You can play it here, give it a try!

We’ve released the Traveler IQ outside of Facebook… not only on TravelPod but you can now add the challenge to any website you’d like!

Simply add the code at the bottom of this page to your site to play the challenge on your own website!