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Initial Impressions and Suggestions
Hi,
I just installed the toolbar on bgviewsnetwork.com, and one blog, http://bgviewsnetwork.com/dev/ and have some initial thoughts.
I figured that the FB Community with FB Connect would ask me for my FB API key, as I am already using FB Connect on our site. I guess Wibiya does this so that there is less hassle to the user, but would be a nice option to allow to use my own FB App that I am using for the rest of the site.
We use a Google Custom Search Engine. It would be really nice to be able to plugin the query string for our Google CSE. Since your toolbar is already setup to use Google, would it be possible to include the option on the Toolbar Dashboard to add our own CSE ID and search URL?
As I already posted a problem about, I get an API Key error when I try and translate a page, though it does translate the page for me. Clicking OK on that error is not very friendly though.
As for the Recent Posts, I could do without the thumbnail at the left. Could this be a config on the toolbar dashboard to turn off thumbnails there, especially since not all posts have images?
Flickr photo set is nice, but it seems to add quite a lot of overhead to actually loading the toolbar, so I turned it off. I had to search Get Satisfaction because I was not putting in the correct info. Can you change the Dashboard to say Photo Set ID and not Flickr Album, because that is confusing. The 3D photo gallery looks nice though.
There seems to be a z-index issue with our Issuu widget in FF 3 Windows. This does not do this in FF 3 Mac or Safari.
http://twitpic.com/8rkjp
We use an Issuu widget to display our PDF of the newspaper. I do not know what the z-index is of that widget. But it seems to be higher than the Wibiya toolbar?
I have some questions/ideas:
Would it be possible to turn off the Random button?
Does this toolbar work with subdomains of the same domain name?
Is it possible to install this same toolbar on multiple sites, i.e. add multiple domains to our Wibiya profile?
My first impression of the Wibiya toolbar was on FIlmSchoolRejects. I am an Editor at Blogcritics and we have a few FSR writers at BC. But when I loaded the FSR site it was just crawling. Seriously slow. I did not know if it was the toolbar or the site. After installing it and fiddling with it on my Developer Blog it does not seem to add much overhead at all, which was my primary concern.
So far the toolbar looks like a great product.
Ken
I just installed the toolbar on bgviewsnetwork.com, and one blog, http://bgviewsnetwork.com/dev/ and have some initial thoughts.
I figured that the FB Community with FB Connect would ask me for my FB API key, as I am already using FB Connect on our site. I guess Wibiya does this so that there is less hassle to the user, but would be a nice option to allow to use my own FB App that I am using for the rest of the site.
We use a Google Custom Search Engine. It would be really nice to be able to plugin the query string for our Google CSE. Since your toolbar is already setup to use Google, would it be possible to include the option on the Toolbar Dashboard to add our own CSE ID and search URL?
As I already posted a problem about, I get an API Key error when I try and translate a page, though it does translate the page for me. Clicking OK on that error is not very friendly though.
As for the Recent Posts, I could do without the thumbnail at the left. Could this be a config on the toolbar dashboard to turn off thumbnails there, especially since not all posts have images?
Flickr photo set is nice, but it seems to add quite a lot of overhead to actually loading the toolbar, so I turned it off. I had to search Get Satisfaction because I was not putting in the correct info. Can you change the Dashboard to say Photo Set ID and not Flickr Album, because that is confusing. The 3D photo gallery looks nice though.
There seems to be a z-index issue with our Issuu widget in FF 3 Windows. This does not do this in FF 3 Mac or Safari.
http://twitpic.com/8rkjp
We use an Issuu widget to display our PDF of the newspaper. I do not know what the z-index is of that widget. But it seems to be higher than the Wibiya toolbar?
I have some questions/ideas:
Would it be possible to turn off the Random button?
Does this toolbar work with subdomains of the same domain name?
Is it possible to install this same toolbar on multiple sites, i.e. add multiple domains to our Wibiya profile?
My first impression of the Wibiya toolbar was on FIlmSchoolRejects. I am an Editor at Blogcritics and we have a few FSR writers at BC. But when I loaded the FSR site it was just crawling. Seriously slow. I did not know if it was the toolbar or the site. After installing it and fiddling with it on my Developer Blog it does not seem to add much overhead at all, which was my primary concern.
So far the toolbar looks like a great product.
Ken
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Inappropriate?I like the toolbar, but the Facebook API is a big one. On one site, I have 500+ people involved on the Facebook side of things and it would be a monumental separation to have two groups running side by side.
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Inappropriate?Hi Ken,
Thank you so much for the feedback.
Most of the features you recommended is on our list.
1) FB Application integration- we understand the need for major bloggers and blog platforms. we plan to release this option in the near future.
2) Turn off Thumbnails (Recent Posts) - We will enable this in the future.
3) Regarding your problem with the Issuu widget: Follow this link to solve the problem - http://tinyurl.com/nk8t99
4) Regarding the Photo Gallery, we totally agree, we will change it
5) In the future it will be possible to turn off the random button
6) The toolbar can work on all subdomains and it is possible to add the same toolbar on multiple sites, you just need to add the code to them. In the near future we will enable accounts to control multiple toolbars.
7)Regarding the Translate function, there is an inner conflict between two of their application (maps and translate) which happens regardless of the toolbar but we are looking to resolve it for you.
Thanks again for the kind words and take into consideration that what yo see now is just the beginning of the Wibiya service.
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Inappropriate?Sweet. I thought that you may restrict the script and account ID to only the domain name that you have associated to the account. But it sounds like that is not the case.
I don't know why I never thought of wmode, thanks for the tip. I will add that here soon.
Can't wait to see what your next updates and additions are.
Ken
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