House Keeping

The look of the website is currently in flux. It has been a long time since the site was designed and a lot has changed with web browsers in that time. Since CSS was used for a majority of the latter design, updating the entire site is trivial. Due to aggressive caching by most browsers, the changes aren't likely to be seen until a refresh is performed.

The changes are going to be small and the overall layout will remain the same. The goal is to experiment with the smaller elements for both usability and aesthetics. Currently, posts are now enclosed to help separate and distinguish each. Inside a posts, the download links have been changed for the same reasons. Navigation links don't use as much vertical space and both navigation links and breadcrumbs have been updated visually.

Download Links

I've made a minor visual change to download links to look more like the current style of download buttons. This look should make the link stand out and well as make the link easier to identify.

Invisible Move

The website is moving to a new shared server in 3 days, but you shouldn't notice any change if everything goes well. It's still the same service provider, but they're moving this site to a newer, more powerful server. Since the site performed well on the old system, I expect it to do very well on the new system.

Any issues would appear late Friday or early Saturday (the 18th).

Update: The server transfer is taking quite a long time and my account is way down on the list. It may be Monday or later before my site is moved.

Update2: The move went well except for some minor warning issues that seem to have now been fixed.

Today's Downtime

The site was experiencing some abnormal server load and was brought down for most of the day. I'm currently working with my webhost to make sure the issue is correctly resolved. I'm not in a position to afford my own space, so I have to share space on a physical machine with other sites. The problem appeared to be a database issue and not a bandwidth issue, so things should hopefully be fine now.

EDIT: I've also fixed a problem with downloads not working.

New ArsClip for a New Year

Version 4.6 of ArsClip has been officially released. Most of the latest changes in this are bug fixes. The notable new features since v4.3 are Pinned Clips and customization for middle click and popup colors. For those that rarely reboot their system, there is an important memory leak fix in this version - so it is highly recommended to update.