Major Updates Today

The waiting is finally over: the updates I’ve been talking about are being uploaded to the server as we speak and so it’s time to explain them Here goes:

Updated Design

This will be the first thing you will notice. Just for me, please press Control-F5 to make sure everything gets refreshed from the server like images and stylesheets. It shouldn’t be necessary, but hey, it’s technology.

The design will constantly evolve as I find out what the community likes best and what serves the Cligs service the best.

Updated Edit Clig Page

The Edit Clig pages have been updated to accomodate various enhancements. In no particular order, they are:

Vanity URL

Finally, you can now have a clig like:

http://cli.gs/cool-name

Instead of the usual randomly generated 6-letter name. You can find this feature in the Edit Clig page.

Right Clig: Advanced Clig Features

This is by far the most important update. Right Clig is the home of many advanced features to come and we kick things off with geotargeting. As of now, you can specify geotargeted alternative URLs for your clig so that visitors from different countries are forwarded to different destinations. More in an upcoming post.

Quick Posting to Twitter & Pownce

Cligs is heavily used on twitter and Pownce and so now when you create a new clig, you will see the logos of twitter and Pownce. Click either of them and you will be taken to the correct site with your status update ready for submission. This does *not* auto-post - you still have to hit the submit button, but it does mean you can edit the post.

Updated Cligs List

The My Cligs List has now been updated massively. Instead of dumping all of your cligs on one page, it’s a bit smarter now, displaying:

• A more prominent search feature. Use it, love it, and abuse it. It’s good for you
• A list of the ten most newly created cligs. Because they’re typically the most important ones.
• A list of cligs that got your most recent 100 hits. This is a bit subtle to explain: all your cligs get a constant flux of incoming hits. Of those hits, the most recent 100 are summarized, grouped by the cligs that got them. So if one clig got the 100 most recent hits, you’ll see only that clig. If the 100 hits came to 100 different cligs, each at one hit per clig, then you’ll see 100 cligs listed. Most likely, you’ll see something in between.
• An executive summary of traffic and clig count. The Executive Summary will constantly evolve to include more overall analytics and more insights. For now, it’s really just the basics.

Two New Views

The My Cligs page now links to two new clig views:

• Grouped View: The previous default where the cligs are grouped by destination URL.
• List View: A new sortable (yes, sortable in your browser) table of all the cligs with their main stats. Just click on the table’s column headings to sort the table.

In Conclusion…

This is a major update that’s been in the works for weeks. It’s been tested massively, but as with any big changes, things might still be broken. As ever, feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated and will definitely be heard. Most of this update’s changes are community requests. You can make requests at We Want and of course contact me directly.

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