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Chengdu

posted over 3 years ago | 6 comments
My posts are usually about technical issues on Eons. Today, however, I'm feeling sad about Chengdu. We visited Chengdu in 2006, spending a day with the Giant Pandas in the Breeding Research Center there.

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Skins, Phase III - The Eons Skin Gallery

posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 day later | 9 comments
A "Skin" - for those of you who are just getting started - is a design theme that is applied to your profile page. Each skin includes settings for the colors, fonts, borders and background images that apply to various areas of the profile.

With t...

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Customizing the "Yellow Box" on your profile

posted over 3 years ago, updated 7 minutes later | 3 comments
The intent of the yellow box is to highlight the important and typical actions that people will want to do when they visit your profile (send a PM, send a gift, etc.).

The following code is efficient and maintains the feel of the standard design,...

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Using Your Eons Photos in Blog Posts

posted over 3 years ago, updated 3 months later | 1 comment
Update 6/20/08: This blog post is now obsolete because of the changes in the new photo system. I'll try to get back to this and revise it but, for now, please don't try to do what I've described below!

Eons makes it easy to include a single photo...

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Profile "Skins"

posted over 3 years ago, updated 5 months later | 5 comments
Greetings from the Eons engineering department! With the February 20th Beta release of Eons, we have begun to deploy our official support for custom profile styling - a.k.a. "skinning".

Go to your Profile and, at the bottom of the yellow contain...

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How to Pimp Your Profile on the Beta Site

posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 days later | 26 comments
This repeats the information from our "Making the Most of Your Profile in Beta" document. However, this version is probably going to be updated more frequently - simply because it's easier to do so. If you're interested in this topic, please subsc...

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Disclaimer: The Analogy

posted over 4 years ago | 5 comments
Disclaimer: The following analogy attempts to give new perspective to the situation at hand by re-casting it as a real-world scenario. Imagination may be required!
Accept | Get me the heck outta here!<...

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Photo Linking - Some love it, some hate it

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
The new link copying feature on the Photo view page makes it marginally easier to create a link to an image in a member (or group's?) photo gallery. It was already easy to do this if you know how to use your browser - but many people don't. The '...

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Is there "free speech" on Eons?

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 2 comments
(This is the cynical side of me talking)

Eons is a business. Aside from the 50+ barrier, Eons tries to appeal to the broadest possible market. If you throw people of all conceivable viewpoints into a single pot and let them talk, it is bou...

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We Clinch! and I'm an Idiot!

posted over 4 years ago, updated 2 days later | 1 comment
The Red Sox clinched their division last night! And, in other news, I'm an idiot! (...but not in the 2004 sense of "Idiot" which would be a good thing)

My daughter and I were at the game last night (thanks to Eons - I won the company raffle!) and...

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