Recent Posts by Neal

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Memories split up between pages

Hi ghesmdukecox,

MemoryPress has a sophisticated algorithm for breaking content and splitting it onto different pages. It will do the best it can to balance the content on the pages so that it looks good. It will flow to the next page when you’re memory is longer than the current page.

I hope that answers your question. Here’s some more about our typesetting system

- Neal

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Editing a Page

Hi Andrea,

To your first question, try placing a page break at the end of “second” so that “youngest” ends up on the next page. The page break is the option that looks like a line =, next to bold, lists and other options in your editor.

To your second question, saving failed means that your computer wasn’t able to reach the MemoryPress servers and it’s letting you know that you can’t assume that your memory is safe. Try saving again in a minute or, if you happen to loose your connection to the web, select all your text with your mouse and click control+c to copy it to the clipboard so that you don’t loose it.

Topic: Feature Requests / Undo

Hi,

This is a great suggestion. What did you have in mind, an ‘undo’ meaning ‘my last change’ or an ‘undo’ meaning, ‘go back to the last time I saved this?’

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Custom Pages overwriting text

From your description, I didn’t notice you mention that you clicked save before going back to the normal view. This is a step that I’ve seen some people forget.

- Neal

Topic: Feature Requests / Forum Avatar (icon)

Hi folks,

The guys at Gravatar.com have fixed their website...

Quoting them…

So, if your gravatar has not been appearing properly, you can reassign it to your email address and it will propogate now.

This means you need to sign in at www.gravatar.com and reassign your avatar to your email address and it will start showing up.

Enjoy!

Topic: Miscellaneous / Questions about features?

The Request Features forum is a great place to ask about features that you wonder whether exist. If you’re struggling to get a feature to work, you can post it in the Troubleshooting forum. Eventually, anywhere you post it, you’ll get an answer, however.

As I understand it, you’d like to mix color and black and white in your book. This is what we’re best at. We are the only place I know of that gives you a discount on black and white in a book that also has color. Mix color pages with black and white all you’d like.

I’m very happy to know we have a user who has TeX source files. That is awesome. Unfortunately, importing them is not a supported feature.

Keep the ideas coming.

Topic: Feature Requests / Forum Avatar (icon)

OK, I discovered that Gravatar is becoming so popular that they can’t keep up. I’m posting the article here.

Gravatar image update

Service Status

Some of you may have noticed that there have been issues with the Gravatar service so people’s images haven’t been showing up properly. The service is undergoing a pretty major overhaul to accoomodate the growth and consequently the service is spotty and the new registrations and logins are currently unavailable.

What is Gravatar?

A gravatar is a 80×80 pixel image that you can use to visually represent yourself on the web. Use the same email address to create an account at www.gravatar.com. Upload a pic and once it’s approved it’ll automatically show up. You can use the same avatar image on any Gravatar-enabled website or blog. Just use the same email address and it will automatically show up. Gravatar uses MPAA-style ratings so that we can ensure only appropriate images show up on our site.

How We Use It

We cache the gravatars locally to speed up the load times since we saw that gravatar was having performance issues. The local cache is updated daily and we only use images that are rated PG or G. If you don’t have a gravatar, you’ll get the default baby Foodha image.

Where’s my Gravatar?

If you’re gravatar isn’t showing up, there’s a couple possible reasons:

• Your cached version hasn’t been updated yet – We update nightly but it only works if the Gravatar service itself is up. If it hasn’t shown up in awhile and the Gravatar service is up, send us a message and we’ll look into it.
• Your image is rated higher than G or PG – Sorry, we’re trying to keep the site somewhat family friendly. Please update your image at the Gravatar site to a tamer image.

We’ll continue to make the caching code more robust so we’re even more immune to the service issues.

Thanks for your patience.

- Justin

Topic: Feature Requests / Forum Avatar (icon)

Liz,

To update your forum display name, go to https://memorypress.familylearn.com/account_info

Thanks,
Neal

Topic: Feature Requests / Forum Avatar (icon)

Two more steps:

1. click on your email address inside of Gravatar (it should say “Select a gravatar below to assign to this email address”)
2. click on the Avatar that you’ve uploaded below and click “Confirm”

It took an hour for mine to show up.

Topic: Feature Requests / Forum Avatar (icon)

Great question.

The MemoryPress forum supports http://www.gravatar.com

This allows you to create your Avatar in one place and use it on anywebsite that supports Gravatar.

To get your own Avatar:

1. Go to Gravatar
2. Create an account using the same email address you used to sign up for MemoryPress
3. Follow the instructions on the website to create your Avatar

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / How to get Pics to show up?

Hey, if you’re having trouble with photos, there’s a great new tutorial on photos on YouTube. Hopefully the tutorial will give you a better idea at how to drop the photos into the gray boxes.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Spell Check

Duane just fixed the spell checker for you. Enjoy!

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Spell Check

I can’t believe we missed that! Thanks for pointing it out. That should be an easy fix and we’ll get back to you on it soon.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / INVITE FEATURE

Sally and Liz, the people who contribute show up on the right below the invite panel as they contribute. Next to their names, in parenthesis, the number of contributions they’ve made show up.