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Upcoming improvements on EYB

Thank you for all your feedback, we're so grateful to all those who take the time to write to us. We are still a beta website and there are areas of improvement to be made before we remove the beta from the logo. So keep it coming, we love getting it and it will help us improve our service to you and build a better website. I will write regularly on the blog about changes we've made and what our future plans are.

This week we are doing an upgrade that will improve the look and feel of the site and improve general performance and page load times. Our improved code creates a better platform to make more functional changes.

We are listening to what our members want and trying to prioritize accordingly. These are a few of the changes you'll see in the next few months:

•Ability to add your cookbooks that aren't already in the EYB Library
•Bulk import of book data from spreadsheets and CSV files
•Indexing your own personal recipes to create your own 'cookbook'
•Changes to the way emails to EYB work, particularly Index Requests (don't worry if you don't currently see an email, we do get a request every time you click on an RI icon)
We want to thank you for being one of the early members and putting up with some of the frustrations of the site. To compensate for being inaugural members and part of a beta site we have offered a Lifetime membership, which we're delighted to see most people have taken out.

We believe in a two way relationship with our members so we will endeavour to keep you up to date with our plans and look forward to hearing more from you. We appreciate your input and tolerance of any glitches you may experience along the way.

7 comments for “Upcoming improvements on EYB”

  • Gravatar of MelanieJ

    MelanieJ  on  1/25/2010 at 12:16:41 PM

    I LOVE your site. It is such a terrific idea. Thanks for creating it and working to improve it even more.

  • Gravatar of amy

    amy  on  1/27/2010 at 6:19:04 PM

    Thank you for considering the option to index personal recipes. I just joined the site and am already loving it. Can't wait to get all my cookbooks added. :)

  • Gravatar of Dorothy

    Dorothy  on  3/12/2010 at 7:00:01 AM

    Hi - Do you have a target date for the "add your own cookbooks" functionality? It occurs to me that my day or so of book-adding would be more easily done if I could do ALL of my books - ie check book 1, is it there, good, if not, add it... on to book 2... etc. So I think I may just wait until you offer that function.

    Thanks -

  • Gravatar of Dorothy

    Dorothy  on  3/12/2010 at 7:23:47 AM

    One more thing... will you be flagging cookbooks as "user indexed?" Seems like that might be helpful. Just a thought.

    And now back to earning my salary... work which, alas, does not in any way involve cooking or cookbooks....

  • Gravatar of Jane

    Jane  on  3/12/2010 at 4:45:37 PM

    I would hate to put a date on this feature and then disappoint. As I am finding out, everything takes far longer to get done in coding than as a non-techie I think it should do. But then what do I know?? Rest assured though that it is the next major item to be done.

    Yes, we will be flagging the books as user-indexed but we will also be proofreading as much as possible and that flag will then be removed.

  • Gravatar of Dorothy

    Dorothy  on  3/15/2010 at 1:36:59 PM

    Hi, thanks - one more suggestion - you might want to limit access to the blog to a few authors. My two posts really did not belong on the blog, they belonged in the forum, but I landed in the wrong place!

    Just a suggestion... greetings from RAINY Boston Massachusetts....

    Dorothy

  • Gravatar of Jane

    Jane  on  3/15/2010 at 10:16:11 PM

    We're really happy if people comment on the blog postings or post on the Forum. We don't want to limit interaction of any kind - in fact we hope to get many more posts.
    Yes, 3 solid days of heavy rain is too much - I'm feeling like I'm back in England.

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