Sending email from PHP for the invites, password reminders, account setup confirmations continues to be a headache. Most email addresses seem to determine the emails I send as spam. It’s frustrating, I’ve not encountered this problem before on shared hosting, and think it’s something to do with the way the servers & DNS are set up but just not sure where or what to fix. Any ideas?

I’ve changed the domain details for inkoid.com to point to xlhost’s domainname severs, so now http://www.inkoid.com is pointing to the new dedicated hosting. Everything appears to be working but I’ll be checking things closely for a while. Definately noticing a slowdown in tile loading here on my home broadband - hopefully it’s faster in the US. It’s motivating me to hurry up with some optimisation ideas I’ve had, especially for grid loading. Email from PHP still apears to be a little flakey so that is a priority so I can get the registration process working well.

The basics of something I’ve been thinking about for a long while now have finally been added. Today I got it working so that from the page where you edit your profile you can change your “User icon” (the image that represents your activity throughout the site) either by uploading an image or exporting an area from the canvas. Yay!. This functionality demonstrates a simple kind of export, hopefully I’ll be adding many more export types from now on. I thought of ideas for two export types while doing this work.

One was the idea of a “LiveImage” where you export a section of the canvas and a special page/script is created that updates the exported image and an rss feed whenever the area the image represents is changed. So a remote site could have an image that changes when it is changed on inkoid embedded in it. I think I’ll demo this with the Logo for the inkoid site giving users the chance to edit and change it.

The other idea was for mobile wallpaper exporting but rather than have the user choose a phone size allow the marquee to be resized in steps corresponding to standard phone screen sizes. And maybe save the last used size to the users profile.

I’ve changed the way the flash canvas interface works for adding places. It’s an improvement, I think, but now that it’s done still not quite right. Now when you press the marker mode button found currently down the bottom right of the canvas the select area appears immediately and upto 20 places saved in the viewable area (before the currently selected canvas date) appear. This allows you to see if the place you planned to save has already been saved, in which case there is no need to save it yourself. It has aside-effect of you being able to move back through the history of the local area.

Now that it’s complete I think that It should show markers both before and after the current canvas time. And perhaps markers should be indicated by a icon symbol only on rolling over any of them they should unfold to show thumbnails & the select area should fade out.

Ok This is just a quick post to let anyone who’s watching know that we have blogs. I’ll be posting in two main categories: “Updates” with information about this site & it’s progress/status & “Related Projects” to let visitors know about other interesting drawing related projects I know of.