Artician News

Unexpected Downtime

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:05:43 -0400

First, Let me apologize for the downtime the site has had for the past few days, Things have went from bad to worst since early this week. We are hoping to be fully operational by the end of this weekend!

At this point in time, I won't be providing any information on the issues we've had I'll let Eric decide if he would announce it. However, I can say that we are currently having issues with our storage server and we hope to have everything restored by the end of the weekend. We hope by Saturday night we can start accepting site submissions again!

Once again, I apologize for the downtime and we are working around the clock to restore the site!

- Brandon
Developer
Artician LLC

UPDATE 04/04/09: We have the site up, but we have disabled submission uploading, the portfolio manager, CSS Editing, and User Avatar Uploading until we have our storage server back up and running.

Artician showcased by Chris Pirillo!

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:01:06 -0400

http://chris.pirillo.com/what-web-communit...do-artists-use/

Private Message Spam Issue

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:05:22 -0400

Hello every body! It has come to our attention that some of our users have been getting spammed through their private messaging system. We would like you to know that we ARE aware of the problem and are working to get this straightened out as I am typing this message.

Please continue to report any forms of spam or harrassment so it can be dealt with right away!

Thank you and have a great day!

Please use the report system!

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:21:51 -0400

We've been notified of some minor spam related incidents. We will be working very hard to fight spam and bots from being able to abuse Artician, and it's members. This is something that comes with large amounts of traffic, and we just have to do our best to deal with it.

What should I do if I see or receive spam related content?
Please report the content right away. We have a "Report" button on nearly every piece of content. Comments, Submissions, Private Messages, Userpages....This will notify the correct authorities on Artician. Please do not send administrators private messages, or email us. The report system was built to efficiently deal with these types of things.

Thanks for everyone's cooperation!

25,000 Submissions!

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:28:35 -0500

Just a small update that I'm sure everyone would be glad to hear about. We've been getting a rapid pace of submissions and are now up to 25,000! Congrats to the Artician community for all the support!

We hope to see the numbers to continue to grow because to put it simply, our servers are hungry! So far, Artician's infrastructure and platform has been scaling better then we had hoped, our server's aren't even breaking a sweat! You know what that means right? Yepp.... I can haz submissions?

Keep em' coming folks!

There are so many more features to come, you have no idea.

Literary Submission Support Coming Soon

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:59:37 -0500

You asked, we listened.

Artician is working on literary support for submitting all kinds of writing and text based media. We will post updates in this topic, but we decided to announce it since we were receiving so many questions and emails about it. We hope to encourage and support literary talent, and will do our very best to attend to the needs of this creative crowd.

Thanks for your feedback!

First step for us is developing the category system. Once we have a rough draft, we will post here for additions, suggestions, and feedback from the community... Keep on rockin!

Artician Scouts (We Want You!)

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:18:35 -0500

Artician Scouts?

As Artician grows (very quickly) we are looking to create a new group of user status'. This user group will be known and referred to as "Artician Scouts". Sounds interesting, you may say to yourself...what's it all about?

Artician is growing, Fast.

Because Artician is growing so rapidly, it is becoming quite difficult for Artician developers, and even Artician Moderators to keep an eye on all the wonderful talent that Artician has been receiving lately. At this point, thousands of new submissions are coming in daily, and we want to give everyone a chance to shine, especially if they really deserve it. To ensure that no one goes unnoticed, we will do what it takes to keep pushing forth talent, and providing recognition to those diligent hard-working artists, designers, and photographers in the Artician community.

So, how are we going to do this?

A new team will be assembled on Artician to be known as "Artician Scouts". The primary task of this newly accumulated team will to be seek out talented work found on Artician, as well as other community oriented tasks which are listed below. We hope that by creating a large team of scouts we could expand our seeking ability to provide recognition to artists who would otherwise be lost in the mix. Artician is dedicated to finding alternatives in creative promotion rather than just relying on programmatic algorithms to "find talent, popular users, and good content". In retrospect, we anticipate a preliminary scout team starting out with about 25-30 people..

What will Scouts do?

Will have methods to browse content on a mass scale.

Will be able to influence a featured status on a submission by adding it to a que for further review.

Will be able to moderate content on a basic level, such as "Flag, as mature", or "Correct a category".

Will have the responsibility to be involved with the community, welcome to new users, and guide them with they need help.

Users who are a part of the Scout team will be recognized as such by their account status.

Sounds cool, I'd like to join...

Artician Scouts will be in effect by the end of March 2009. We will be open to accepting users to be a part of the Scout team. The primary attribute we will be looking for is dedication. If you've been on Artician for a little while, you simply have a better chance of joining the Artician Scout team. However, we've seen plenty of new users who took Artician by storm, and have just be a pleasure to see all around the site. Friendly, patient, influential, and helpful are all keywords that describe a member of the Scout team..

I have an idea!

If you do, then we want to hear it! Our concepts are fresh, and ready for molding. We would love to hear feedback and suggestions that would improve the formation, organization, and goals of the Artician Scout team. Even if you have other, yet relevant ideas for promoting users, and talent found Artician - we totally are all ears..

So, with that said, we will soon begin working on this new platform for Artician Scouts, and you will certainly know the difference. As much as us developers love being involved with the community, we need help from you

Like I always say... Community, you are awesome.

Artician Pro is Here!

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:53:05 -0500

Artician Pro is Here!

(Below is an edited version of our welcome message to Pro Users)

Take advantage of Artician Pro features, as well as the removal of annoying advertisements from Artician, and anyone who views your content / portfolio. Artician Pro users entitled to additional exposure, which you will notice around the the rest of the site, and anytime we update Artician Pro and it's features you will automatically be eligible to use them. We plan to continue adding, improving and assembling new and exciting features to keep Artician Pro up to date and perpetually serving your needs as a creative professional.

Artician Pro Details

Here are some things we're keeping in mind to make Artician Pro as useful as possible to you.

We know you have clients or other outside crowds that will be looking at your work. That's why we focus on presenting your work in the most efficient and professional way possible - without all fluffy stuff.

Being a creative professional is no easy task, and requires much time and effort. We make it quick and easy to maintain your work, so you can focus on what you do best.

We all have our ups and downs, and sometimes all it takes is a little extra inspiration to complete a project with full satisfaction. Now you can browse artician with 150 thumbnails per page so you can soak up all the inspiration you need to get that spark.

Communicating with other Artician Pro's is essential. Collaboration, teamwork, and feedback is what will be pushing you to the top. Here in the forums, you can privately discuss with other Artician Pro users to get the premium advice you've been looking for all along.

Getting recognition and exposure these days, is like trying to make your own parachute in mid-air while skydiving. You can't keep up, and eventually you're gonna' crash. Artician does it's unrivaled best to promote YOU and your work - above all the rest.

...We are not done yet either!

Artician Developers are working around the clock to perpetually improve Artician Pro. Not only to scale and deliver, but to meet the real needs of Creative Professionals around the globe. We will continue to listen to your feedback and implement your ideas to ensure that Artician Pro isn't just something that is "nice to have", but something that you can rely on to cater to your professional needs.

New Feature: Artician Wizard

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:52:27 -0500

As we get ready for second phase promotion, we have released another very beneficial utility for new users of Artician. The Artician Wizard is a simple guided, step by step process that helps newcomers easily populate primary profile information and user content to their profile. Once a new user signs up on Artician, they are immediately guided to the wizard. Because it is optional, the user can also choose to skip the wizard at any point.

We hope this help get new Artician users started with their basic profile information.

Screenshot:

(The overall process shows one stage at a time, with a sleek horizontal scrolling effect)

New Feature: Artician Inviter!

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:24:07 -0500

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to announce some new features before we move into second phase promotion, which will be happening very very soon!

We have just released a powerful new invite system that allows you to invite friends and contacts from a vast selection of email service providers and social networks alike. The new viral invite system provides the ability to login to any of the services shown below to retrieve a list of your contacts. After doing so, you can select which contacts or friends you'd like to invite. Artician will automatically send them an email invitation, OR if you are using a social network, it will send them a private message on that network.

We encourage everyone to invite their friends, or anyone that would find Artician beneficial

Invite Your Friends!

Screenshots:

Artician 2nd Round of Promotion coming soon...

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:36:27 -0500

Notice:

Artician will be entering the second phase of promotion at the end of the month. We will be expecting large surges of traffic, and new users to Artician. At that time we will be ready to promote some new Moderators, and create another user status known as "Scouts". Scouts will generally be the "eyes" of Artician, and the primary task of this newly assembled team will to be seek out talented work on Artician, and influence a featured status on submissions. The featured work will ultimately will be reviewed by Admin's and soon probably Mods as well. We will create a dedicated topic for Scouts with more details, so look out for that soon as well. (Just to ensure there is no confusion, the Featured Work system will not be entirely controlled by Scouts, other logical algorithms will play their role as well)

Otherwise, get ready to welcome many more new users and talent to Artician. We also have been busy on some new things, which will be announced in the near future. Artician Pro, and Artician Groups are still under development, but they are both 95% complete. We are just tying em' up, and smoothing little things out.

A small word to the community.."You are awesome!"

Artician Reviewed by WebWorkerDaily.com

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:18:44 -0500

Hey all,

This news is a few days old, but thought it would be nice to share with everyone none the less. Artician was reviewed on Web Worker Daily (GigaOM blog site) by Darrel Etherington. He gave an honest review from his standpoint as an existing DeviantART user, and mentioned some great things about Artician. Read up...

http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/02/17/artic...-creative-work/

Because the GigaOM network has become a influential blogging news network, this article was also fed onto:

CNN Money: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom...ative_work.html

Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/web_life...work/index.html

New Feature! Thumbnail Hover Details

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:21:35 -0500

Hey Everyone...

We've got a small feature update to announce! We have just released a nifty little feature that will be extremely useful when browsing work on Artician. You will now notice, when you place your mouse cursor over the thumbnails in browse, or on the homepage, you will see more details smoothly slide up revealing the user who posted it, the category it was posted in, and the date it was uploaded. We may change or add some minimal info to the detail hovers, but you get the gist! View the screenshot below and enjoy!

See it in Action

Blogfullbliss Launches

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:05:23 -0500

Hello all my Artician people!

Just letting you all know that I just launched my personal blog/online portfolio tonight! Sooo pumped, been working on it for months.

www.blogfullbliss.com

I will be posting articles weekly and sometimes daily on modern web design/technology, tutorials, design inspiration, my thoughts/ideas, and random banter.

Please take a minute to check it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks

Artician Pro - Need Feedback

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:43:35 -0500

Hey everyone,

First off, I'd like to welcome all these wonderful new users around here. It's such a pleasure to see many new faces, and beautiful portfolios.

We are very busy working on some great new features including Artician Groups, and Artician Pro. For this topic, we'd like to get some of your feedback on Artician Pro, so we can truly give what the community wants.

Artician Pro is a subscription based service for $4.95/mo on Artician. It will provide additional features and a more professional mark on your Account. Some of the things included in Artician Pro are:

No Ads on the site at all, and ads are even removed from your userpage and content when people are viewing.

Allow users to keep ads, and make money off them new!

Browse up to 150 submissions per page in Browse sections

More visitors to your userpage

Unlimited Access to Pro Resources. (This will be done in the near future when we develop a resources section)

First notice on Events, Contests and New Features

Link your own domain to your userpage new!

Hide network bar to guests (black bar at the top of every page of artician) new!

As of now, these are all the things that we have been able to think of for Artician Pro accounts. We really want to hear your ideas, and what you'd like to have if you were getting a Pro Account. What sort of things would be useful to you as an artist, designer or photographer managing a portfolio. Anything that would help you manage your portfolio, be more professional, or simply make your experience on Artician better.

Any feedback, ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Cmon.. don't hold back, we know your thinking of something, and we're here to listen.

Artician.com Launches!

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:57:53 -0500

Note: This is the official press release for the launching and promotion of Artician.com

Artician.com Launches! Empowering Artists, Designers, and Creative Talent Around the World.

Philadelphia, PA - Monday February 9th, 2009 - http://www.artician.com - Artician.com, a new community for creative professionals, has introduced a new service to allow artists, designers, photographers, and other creative individuals to build completely personalized portfolios for free. The service aims to provide an effortless way for anyone to create and manage a portfolio in a professional or personal environment. Artician.com strives to promote creative talent by featuring individuals and their work to gain exposure and recognition.

Along with powerful portfolio management and fully customizable profiles, Artician.com also offers many beneficial tools and features to help creative professionals and freelancers build a strong content-oriented web presence. Blogs, Discussion, Activity feeds, Resources, and other social features are all complimentary of its service to the creative world.

"We encourage existing art communities and crowds to create a presence on Artician. Our comprehensive group system provides the complete control and the organization that art/design groups have been looking for all along."

Artician.com is reshaping and innovating the creative web space for creative people around the globe, and is empowering them to create a web presence that was never before possible.

About Artician
Artician.com is a free creative network website and international design community that welcomes all creative expression. Artician.com provides a place for artists, designers, photographers, and web designers to showcase and promote their work with the greatest of ease. Artician features powerful portfolio management, along with a fully customizable profiles and web presence that gives everyone the tools they need to promote their creative work in a professional or personal environment.

Press Contacts:
Artician Public Relations
http://www.artician.com/contact
pr@artician.net
(215)459-3418

References:
You can find Artician promotional images here: http://www.artician.com/promo
You can see a tour of Artician here: http://www.artician.com/tour
Ways to Support Artician: http://www.artician.com/support-artician
Artician on: Twitter , Facebook , Digg

Join Artician on Facebook!

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:08:32 -0500

To all those facebook users out there, come join us!

Join Artician on Twitter!

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:52:16 -0500

Now that Artician is ready to unleash it's promotional powers, we'll be updating our twitter page as well. Come join us, and spread the word!

http://twitter.com/Artician

Artician Promotion...Help Us Spread the Word!

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:06:45 -0500

Help Us Spread the Word!

We are happy to announce that we are finally entering official promotion stages of Artician!

As we are eagerly finishing up some of the last features and fixes, we are now ready to give Artician the full attention it deserves on the marketing end.

For those of you who are new to Artician, you should know that it's been a long journey in the development of a perfect place for Artists, Designers, and Photographers, to come and create a fully customizable portfolio that is ideal in many, many ways. Artician gives you the tools you need to harness the benefits of a creative professional social network, along with a powerful portfolio and web presence to promote your work. To learn more, check out the Artician Tour

For those of you who have been a part of the community, or have been keeping any eye on the development of Artician, you are probably well aware of how much time, effort, and nourishment went into creating what we’d like to call this beast, Artician.

Now, we need your help to provide Artician with the recognition that the rest of the web unknowingly anticipates. For the next few weeks, we are going to be giving it our all in spreading the word about this wonderful place. This includes newsletters, advertising, promotions, link exchanges, public relations, press releases, and social network communication. But in fact, our undoubtedly best weapon in completing this goal is You. The Artician Community can do more than any of the above methods combined, and any help we receive will be recognized and applauded. Please take a moment to see what you can do to help...

How can you help?

We are on the hunt for links! We are looking for as many URLs as possible related to Art, Design, Photography, Web Design, or any Creative website to help get the word around.
A topic has been started a little while back by Mark Skully dedicated to this. Post up your favorite links! It could be Art Communities, Galleries, Blogs, Personal Portfolios, Social Networks, Resource websites etc. Every link counts!

Post your links here!

Other ways to support Artician

You can help support Artician in many ways. See how easy it is below...

Spread the Word

Help spread the word about Artician! Post a button or banner on your website or blog. Spread the love!

Invite your friends

Bring your friends over to Artician! Let them see just how easy it is, to start a portfolio, and stay connected.

Stream RSS Content

Artician has lot's of content, and sharing it is really easy. Stream our rich content feeds, anywhere you'd like!

Disable Ad Blockers

We love to keep Artician free for everyone, advertisements help keep it that way. If you use an ad-blocker, consider turning it off on Artician.

Submit your work

We'd love to see what you got! Submit your Art, Photography, Webdesigns, and more..We are always looking to promote fresh talent.

Participate

Participation on Artician is HUGE! See how you can participate

Some Other things to keep in mind...

Within the next few weeks, we will be scheduling a "Digg it" day. This will be a specified time that we can attempt to make it to the front page of digg, with the help of our community.
Please check back soon for postings with detail time and information.

Thanks for all the support shown up until this time, and many thanks to our dedicated users who are always there to help.

We now support Flash 10 and No Flash!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:19:57 -0400

With the new upload script on the Submit section, You're notice that there has been some new changes. We now support Flash 10, and we also support systems with no flash installed! This includes Linux systems that previously had issues uploading with flash. If you have a problem uploading with the flash uploader, we now have a new button "Enable Classic Uploader" which will allow you to upload files without flash. I hope this really helps people who have had issues with our uploader in the past.

Check it out!

New Media Server Running

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:50:03 -0400

Hey Everyone,

Just a small update on the performance of Submissions. You will notice a large speed increase when loading thumbnails and images around the site in general. This is due to A. Our new media server that is now serving all the raw static files, and B. The new method in which submissions are received from the media server setup.

We no longer use PHP to connect and receive submissions, as well as handle permissions, rather everything is served raw through the backend by lighttpd media server. We can thank brandon, and chris for their work on this new system. Many updates, and was carried out without any downtime, a smooth and swift transition and a job well done.

File Re-organizing our File Structure

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:34:24 -0400

If anyone that was on today may have noticed that some profiles and the site designs were messed up. Thats because we are currently in the process of re-organizing where we serve our static files from. Such as CSS, Images, and Javascript files are being moved to their own subdomains, that includes user profiles. To make things easier, I've coded an automatic detector when updating CSS files so that they will always be fixed even if you use old CSS files. I will be working on moving Javascript files tonight and tomorrow, so if the site starts acting up, you know why. =]

Emoticons finally!

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:42:39 -0400

I am happy to introduce our very own artician emoticons. As some of you notice we have been using the default IPB (invision power board) set which aren't as good looking here are a few of the new ones to look at.

You can view them by click the emoticon on the toolbar which will show the new emoticons, hope you all enjoy them and feel free to suggest and comment.

enjoy your day!

Artician Update....Where are we going?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:17:54 -0400

So, many of you have been asking, where are we going with Artician, how long will we be in beta, and when will we get this place pumping with Artician juice? Well, all those are good questions, and that's why we are here to answer them.

Artician's progress has been increasing rapidly, as we move to the completion of Artician features, and more towards the preparation of promotional aspects. Here are some updates of what we have been working on, as well as some other goodies...

Groups
We are proud to say that Artician will have the most powerful groups system found on any social networking site. With full control over user permissions and content, groups will literally provide the ability to build your own mini community on artician. Managing Submissions, Sets, Packs, Contests, Events, Polls, Blogs, Users, Invitations, and other group interactivity will be EASY, and when we say easy, that means anyone can start their own group on Artician. Groups will have 3 entry paths...

Public Groups - Anyone can join
Private Groups - Users can request to join, and be accepted
Invite Only Groups - Users can only join if they have been invited

The list goes on, and on... but seriously... Most powerful groups system to hit the Internet. Oh, and if you maintain an artgroup, Artician will have everything you need! You can expect to see groups done within this coming month of August...So stay tuned!

Artician Feeds
Feeds, feeds, and more feeds! Now you can literally export almost any content on Artician...From blogs, to submissions, to user content, RSS feeds are available for everything.... You can even create and merge Artician feeds to generate your own custom mix of content from Artician...http://www.artician.com/feeds

Artician Widget
We will soon be releasing a sexy flash widget where you can stream your artician portfolio content on your website, blog, or other profiles...Should be available within the next week or so.. We will announce that in a separate topic so look out for that...

Bug fixes and improvements have been initiated all around the site over the last month or so, so things are really feeling solid. There are still some quirks out there, but we assure you we are aware of most if not all of them.

We have some other really, really, exciting news to share, but not until it's ready!....We know, secrets are no fun!

Check back for more updates!

Animated Icon Issue

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:26:11 -0400

State of Artician

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:26:41 -0400

Artician is currently at a cross roads. On the one hand our community is starting to form up and solidify with a lot of work already finished but on the other hand we have a large list of things we still need to accomplish - from groups, which will help our community grow strong - to prints, which will allow all creative individuals to be successful. But there's still plenty to do on Artician for our small team of web developers.

To illustrate my point here's some statistics,
Users on the site with at least one submission: 216 - Less then 1/5th of all the accounts on the site: 1095

Together, these 216 individuals have submitted 1,925 individual submissions.

Our community by any standard is small but one thing is clear to me: The individuals that do choose to use Artician all feel very passionately that the current status quo of Artistic expression on the Internet does not represent how they feel it should be. That is the gap we are all trying to bridge by allowing creative individuals to have true control of their own artwork and how it is represented on the Internet.

Now...
That being said, we can't do it without you. We can design the best site on the Internet but if no one uses it or participates in it then there's absolutely nothing we can do as developers to make it breath. For that we need you, the users of Artician to help mold and shape the community into what you want it to be. It's not our community, it's your community. Our commitment to not take any outside investment helps us keep it that way. We have all thought about how we would like to do this, or that, to change the Internet. Well, here's your chance. Yes, our community is small but for you, the people who are already members of this community, it is the biggest asset. You have the power to mold this community to be what you want it to be. I appeal to all of you, yes you! Please help us spread the word out that Artician is here to stay and that even in beta we are already offering the absolute best experience to our users - all for free.

So please, talk to your friends and colleagues and help spread the word about the best public art community on the Internet.

Resources

Portfolio Sets

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:07:40 -0400

So we have just completed the "Portfolio Sets" feature. This basically allows you to create, and manage custom sets of work within your portfolio. The interface is very easy to use, and drag and drop features allow you to easily drag around your work into custom sets that you create. You can also set the preferred order of your sets by dragging them above or below each other. Lastly, renaming a set is simple, just click on the title and it will become editable.

From now on, when submitting new work you will have the option of choosing a set to submit it too as well. Hope everyone enjoys the new feature, I certainly found it useful...

Screenshots

New Userpages

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:46:42 -0500

Hey everyone,
If you haven't already noticed we added several new userpages recently including "Tags" and "Discussion". The reason for having more userpages like these is to give the user who is browsing the ability to see more of the content they were looking at on your main profile, without leaving your userpage. Some of this content cannot be found around the site in the manner we provide on the userpage, or cannot be found around the site at all. So these pages do there job quite well.

Heres a list of all available userpages and their URL's, I will use mine as an example:

Profile - http://eric.artician.com
Portfolio - http://eric.artician.com/portfolio/
Blog - http://eric.artician.com/blog/
Friends - http://eric.artician.com/friends/
Watchlist - http://eric.artician.com/watchlist/
Favorites - http://eric.artician.com/favorites/
Discussion - http://eric.artician.com/discussion/
Tags - http://eric.artician.com/tags/
Comments - http://eric.artician.com/comments/

We are currently developing a solution if the user has no content on any particular page. One solution is to remove all means of getting to that particular page from the userpage, that way no one will even be able to get to a page, only to find out there is not content there yet. OR we can make a small notice on the actual page when you get there saying "This user does not yet have any Favorites" or something of the sort.

Feel free to provide feedback and suggestions otherwise, Now you can fully browse people's discussion and tags.

All skins have been updated to accommodate the new pages, if anything looks weird, please try to refresh the page several times to make sure your browser isn't caching the CSS styles. If something still looks strange or out of place, you can mention it in this topic.

For those with custom skins:
You can add the following styles anywhere in userpage CSS and customize them as needed. These styles are from the default userpage skins. Those with darker custom skins may want to take the styles from the "Dromewire" skins, or "Freestyle Plus" skin.

Discussion Page CSS:

CODE

/*Custom Styles For Discussion Page*/
#alldiscussion {background:transparent;}
#alldiscussion select#sortDiscussion {float:right;}
#alldiscussion .bottom {display:none;}
#alldiscussion .content {background:transparent;}
#alldiscussion .content div.adboard {background:#fafafa; border-width:1px 0 0 0;}
#alldiscussion .content ul {margin:0; padding:0;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li {background:#f7f7f7; list-style:none; border-top:1px solid #ddd; text-align:left; padding:12px; margin-bottom:15px;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li a.topicTitle {font-size:13px; text-align:left; line-height:1.4em; font-weight:bold;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li a.topicTitle:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li span.reply {display:block; color:#888;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li span.post {color:#777; margin-top:8px; font-size:12px; display:block; clear:both; margin-bottom:7px; line-height:1.5em;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li span.icon {margin:1px 8px 0 -2px; float:left;}
#alldiscussion .content ul li span.info {color:#999; display:block; text-align:right;}

TagsPage / New Nav Tabs CSS:

CODE

/*This is the form that shows, when tagging something*/
div.tag_it{padding:12px 0 12px 10px; border-bottom:1px dotted #ddd;}
div.tag_it p.field_helper {font-size:10px !important;}
div.tag_it input.field {width:400px; background:#fff; border:10px solid #ddd; margin:0 5px 0 0; border-width:2px 1px 1px 1px; color:#{SKINCOLOR_1}; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans; font-size:14px; padding:0.3em;}
div.tag_it input.field:focus {background-color: #fff;}
div.tag_it input.button {padding:4px 10px;}

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Omni Forums Looking for a Forum Skin ($200 for best one)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:32:40 -0500

Omni forums is a web community for the Anime DVD scene.

They're looking for a few new designs for PHPBB3 to replace their PHPBB2 skins since they upgraded to PHPBB3.

First place prize is $200USD and second place prize is $50USD.

If anyone is interested please check out the full rules.

And don't forget to submit these skins to Artician!

View Page Updates

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:17:54 -0500

As you've probably noticed we have added some additions to the submission view pages within the last few days. Starting with "Related Stuff" and then updating the user module towards the top with some nice options. Along with that Henry and Brandon have implemented a color palette script that analyzes each submission after you submit it on the site, and will pick out the top colors used on that submission. You are now able to see the color palettes on the view pages, under the rating, and will soon be able to browse submissions by colors.

Just wanted to throw out this nice update! Thanks!

Live Edit Comments

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:55:03 -0500

Hey everyone,
We have added a nice update to our comments system. You can now edit your comments using the little edit icon above each comment. This will load up your comment into a live editing mode, and you can save right there. Currently, you can only edit your comment up to one hour after posting it. The time limit is there for security reasons. It will be very hard to moderate community issues when someone can change what they have said or posted at any time.

We are still seeing how this will pan out. Perhaps we should enable this time limit of editing comments only after we actually see or experience comment abuse.

Let us know what you think. Otherwise enjoy the feature!
(If you don't see the icon on new comments you've posted, please try ctrl+ refresh to clear old styles out of your browsers cache)

Well done to Akujin on the backend code

Screenshot:

Quick Edit is back (Finally)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:58:03 -0500

Just wanted to drop the notice, that the "Quick Edit" function for editing topics easily is working again, was broken for a long time. Almost feels like a new feature. Anyway, enjoy!

Some forum updates....

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:18:37 -0500

Hey everyone,
As you probably already noticed we've revamped some of the forums. We also included and very nice enhancement global navigation throughout the forums, along with the right site with search, today, this week, and subscribe. We hope you find this helpful as we sure did. Navigating around discussion has never been easier. Now that we added this I feel this is what every forum truly lacks - a nice and simple global navigation system that is not a select drop down menu at the bottom of a long page like most forums use to jump from category to category or forum to forum.

Anyway, enjoy the changes, and expect more. (If for any reason the forums look strange or broken be sure that your browser has received the latest styles and caching the old styles. Simply click ctrl+r while on any page in the forums.)

Enjoy!

Artician Email Whitelist (Important!)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:48:07 -0500

With the advent of outrageous volumes of unwanted email these days, it's unfortunate that legitimate email publications are not being seen by some of the readers who enjoy those publications. There is much fear today that the email publishing / marketing industry is in serious trouble, due to mistakes in filtering when legitimate email is erroneously tagged as unwanted email.

While we applaud the anti-spam industry for removing the plethora of unwanted email from many of our mailboxes, from time to time, some legitimate email publications are mistaken as unwanted.

Sometimes, this results in our mailings bouncing back, with requests for us to respond to challenge/response messages to prevent future filtering. However, due to the size of our list, it's nearly impossible for us handle the volume of such requests.

To that end, please realize that we want our readers to always anticipate and enjoy the valuable information that our notifications, and publications deliver.

If you currently use an anti-spam program or service, we ask that you take just a minute or two to add our publication to your "safe" or permitted email sender list. This usually involves simply adding our sending address (From:) to your whitelist, safelist, or list of priviledged senders. This is commonly known as whitelisting a publication.

Add Artician to your Whitelist!

User Status Quick Info

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:54:53 -0500

Another update,

Up until now, we have only had 2 user status's show on the userpage, that was "Artist" or "Member", since the whole artist account idea has been dropped long ago, we decided to show the general user status' on the site, that is: Administrator, Staff, Moderator, Beta Tester, and Member. In the quick info module on the userpages we have updated the code to display your correct status. We may be adding other groups in the future, but for now this is what we got.

Most likely we will also add this in the forum posts as well. This way, users who are in need of help can easily identify a Moderator, or Staff member and in discussions will value their opinions and answers more than others if they know that they are a part of the Artician team.

Here is a sample screenshot of a user status:

Edit Areas

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:47:02 -0500

We have added "Edit" buttons directly on submissions and blog posts, so now when viewing your own content, you don't have to use the drop down from the network bar to select the CP section in which will edit that content. This makes things easier, I have already found it useful when wanted to fix something quickly.

In the future, we will be implement live Ajax editing for various content types, however, for now we must focus on more priority things.

Here are some screenshots:

Edit buttons on Submissions:

Edit buttons on Blogs:

Blog Importer (RSS & Atom)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:34:46 -0500

Alrighty,

It's my pleasure to announce and awesome new feature here on the site, that is going to save our users a lot of time, and make their blogging days much easier. A new utility is available in your blog manager that allows you to import your existing blog from an external RSS or Atom feed. All new imported blog posts get integrated with your current posts in date order, regardless of whether they were imported, or originally posted on Artician.

Currently, you can check to see if you have any new posts in a feed that you have imported by clicking "Find New Entries", but soon this process will be running automatically checking several times a day if you have any new posts on your external blogs, then automatically syncing them to your Artician Blog.

A big hand goes to Akujin for completing the code for this feature with great satisfactory. Any bugs or issues can be addressed here, and Henry will take care of it. Any design issues or quirks can also be addresses here, and I will take care of it.

Check out the Blog Importer

Screenshot:

Artician Slowdown (Fixed)

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:28:58 -0500

Just wanted to let everyone know, that we have been experiencing some issues where the site getting very slow at times. This is due to some issues with our email server processes freezing up, and then effecting the site's performance. Anyway, this should be fixed tomorrow, as we are aware of the issues, and will have it running smoothly asap.

Symptoms of this may include:

- Pages not loading
- Ajax not loading, things like comments, and other functions
- Slow or no email notifications.

Artician Unofficial Release

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:25:11 -0500

We are pleased to announce the un-official release of Artician.com. We have opened up the main page of Artician.com to the live site, as well as open registrations. We decided to let the traffic ease into the new servers, so we can address any issues early on. We are still in complete beta stages, and still want to complete, fix, and upgrade many of our existing features, as well as continue to add new ones.

Anyway, cheers for 2008!

Blog System Updates

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:12:04 -0500

Just wanted to update everyone on a small addition to our Blog Manager. You can now categories your blogs by selecting from a simple drop down list of general blog categories. Up until now we have had no way of categorizing blogs, so we decided to implement a basic category structure, that will be useful in pulling up blogs based on different criteria. If you head over to your Blog Manager you will se the drop down list under the title when adding a new blog, as well as managing your current blogs.

If anyone does have blog entries we recommend that you take a minute or two to just select a category for each

Another big update that we will post about when it's complete, is a blog importer. That means, having the ability to import blog entries from your other blogs very easily by just providing the RSS feed. This will be a great feature and we know all those blogger will appreciate that one. We still thinking of a way to automatically update your artician blog automatically when you have add new entries to your other blog networks.

We will post any updates!

Search is back!

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:59:12 -0500

After a long wait, Search is now back and running at full speed! We have introduced comments search (Sample: http://www.artician.com/search/comments/artician/) which allows you to search comments on Blogs, Submissions, and Profiles! In the future, you'll be able to limit them to only one type of comments, but for now it shows them all. Please note that it may take up to 30 minutes to an hour for any new content to appear in search due to the complexity of the search system. Any changes to content (Especially on topics, and submissions) won't change in the search to up to 24 to 36 hours. Check it out, and please report any bugs

Feedback on new home

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:34:06 -0500

Hey everyone,
Happy holidays! We wanted some feedback on the new home interface. Generally the content is the same, but the look certainly has been cleaned up. Do you guys like it better than the old styles? If anything looks weird in your browser, be sure to give it a ctrl+r first.

We will be working on optimizing the load, cause the home page does have A LOT of content. Provide suggestions, feedback, dislikes, and rants here...

(Ajax links on the ~~Discussion Topics~~, and Blog modules are not yet coded.)

Thanks!

Artician on new web server

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:10:40 -0500

Alrighty, its 5:10 am and we just pushed artician onto the new webserver. We have been going over many new configurations that we had to deal with so there has been a lot of backend updates. If anyone experiences any issues please post them here. At most there may be some dead links.

Search is down temporarily as well.

Time to pass out....

Profile User Type Focuses

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:10:01 -0500

Another neat feature that we have completed recently. You can now select your area of focus in your profile. This will have categorize you as far as your talents, skills, and qualifications. You can select up to five focuses by going to your profile at: http://www.artician.com/cp/profile/

You will see a new insert to the primary profile data called "Focuses"

You can click the button to open.....

Then you can expand each section to select your areas of focus (you can select up to 5 currently - we may enable more later).....

This information will show up in your Userpage Profile - so select wisely! If anyone thinks of any categories or sub categories to add here, please let us know, we will be glad to accommodate every criteria - for now this is the list we came up with....

DON'T FORGET TO CLICK "SAVE PROFILE" WHEN YOUR DONE!

Enjoy the official way to let people know what you do
This data will be used later in many ways, possibly to even create a Job opportunities search in the future. Enjoy!

Oh and another big thank you and job well done to knightar on the code, and myself on the front-end

Social Networks on Artician

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:53:31 -0500

Alright,
We have a great new feature on artician that is not only unique and innovative, but a great way to share your external social networks that you are a part of. Round of applause to knightar on the code, and me on the front end

http://www.artician.com/cp/profile/social/

There you will see a list of social networks that you can add your information to. You can also drag them using the little handle to set the preferred order of your social networks to be displayed on your userpage profile section.

To add a network simply click the icon and fill out your name and userpage URL

Enjoy the fun, and share your social networks!

Global Browse Updates

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:32:11 -0500

Hey everyone, a nice update to share with everyone.

Browse Node

For starters, we have updated the Browse Node on /home/ you can now easily jump between major categories, and sorting right from the browse node using ajax ("Popular" doesn't work yet). It also now loads a max of 20 thumbnails. Depending on your resolution it may or may not show 20, but it will show as many as it can fit according to your resolution. The max width on Artician is 1200px which is enough to fit 2 rows of 10 in the browse module. It used to be 18, but we changed the way the submissions fit in the browse Node.

Browse Dashboard

Along with that, we have also updated the Browse Dashboard styling and some concept. There is now a "More" button on each module. Both groups, and modules are drag and droppable, and all IE bugs have been fixed in browse. Documentation, and tips will be written for Browse soon since it has many complexities and features, many of which, even you guys probably haven't yet noticed. For example: You can create your own groups on your browse dashboard by click on "Settings", there you can enter the name of a new group to categorize your Browse Dashboard. We have yet to re-do the drop-down browse widget navigation. Right now it's crap, so don't worry bout it.

Browse Toolbar

We have added a nice little toolbar on individual browse pages. With this toolbar we have added a simple previous / next button for easy pagination from the top of the page. You will also notice you can toggle between, Large / Small thumbnails, and Grid / Tile view. Examples will be shown below. Example of and individual browse page: http://www.artician.com/browse/?media=Image

Browse: Large Thumbnails

Browse: Tile View

Browse: Tile View + Large Thumbnails

So that's some of the stuff we have been working on lately. The browse section as a whole still needs a lot of work. But it's certainly getting there.
We have some new features that will be popping out, but we are damn close to launching Artician Land.

Let's keep this place lively and active! Enjoy the new features.

Who has favorited? New View Page Feature

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:06:33 -0500

Alrighty,
Just wanted to introduce a nice little addition to the view pages. It is a module in the side panel that shows who has favorited the submission you are viewing. Here's an example: http://jsmonzani.artician.com/portfolio/In...of-Faded-Times/

Artician Live on new Database Server

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:35:09 -0500

Just wanted to announce that the site has been moved, and now working on our new Database Server (Stimpy) at lightning speeds....
We have still yet to move the web server so the site should feel even faster after thats done. So just wanted to spread the good news. ciao!

Fresh new Skins....

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:27 -0500

Hey everyone,
Would like to announce a beautiful new skin with 11 colors, that has been perfected in all browsers from what I see. After a little beating on IE, it couldn't help but to render this beautiful skin as perfect as it should

Big thanks goes to ve1n . The banner is a slice from his work A Q U A D R O M E, which he offered us to use for a skin a little while back if I remember correctly. What a perfect blend. Thanks again bud

This skin is selectable from the skins section in your customization toolbar - named: Dromewire.

For a live preview check out my userpage at: eric.artician.com

Enjoy!

Color Previews:

A closer look at the different color headers:

Important Submissions Update

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:07:26 -0500

Submit
We would like to announce the re-opening of submit. It has been down for almost 2 weeks now as we have been revamping and fixing bugs. This is the reason there has been no new submissions on the site, but now you can change that by going ahead and submitting all the cool new stuff we hope you have been working on

Portfolio Manager
We are also pleased to present your Portfolio Manager. Here you can go and edit any previous work you submitted. For each submission you can: Manage your uploads, crop thumbnails, change title, description, licenses, permissions, add/remove tags, and of course update your submissions, media, styles, and category. There also some other cool tid-bits like editing multiple submissions at the same time, and seeing which ones you have open for editing. Note: Deleting submissions is being worked on, so it's not yet available.

Categories & Styles
Along with all this good news we also have a little not so good news. With this whole revamp, we decided to re-structure our Category/Styles system (the way you categorize your submissions). We made a whole bunch of organizational improvements as well as creating a unique list of style types for each Media, as oppose to a single list of styles for all Medias. The organization is pretty flawless now, and we never expect to have to undergo any more big changes from this structure.

In the process we made SO MANY changes, that we had to flush everyones selected categories and styles from their submissions. WE KNOW, this is a big bummer as I myself have 45 of my own submissions that I need to re-select the categories & styles for.

PLEASE: Take the time to go into your Portfolio Manager and re-select the styles, and categories for your submissions. Until that's done, all of Artician's submissions are just a big ball of unorganized mush. So we need your help here! At first we thought we would be able to do it on our own, but as the organizational structure continued to change, we realized it's out of our hands, and it would be best if everyone did their part to re-categorize their own submissions. FYI: Nothing like this will EVER happen again. Big apologies.

Bugs & Requests
You are experiencing ANY bugs, issues, or simply have questions about any of these new features including submit, portfolio, categories, styles and the rich text editor - Please post it in here.

Before you post any bugs or issues, please press "ctrl + r" on the page you may be having issues on. This will clear your browser cache, and accept all the new Javascript code, and CSS styles that have been applied to these new features and sections.

Other info: If you are using Safari, or Opera - The thumbnail cropper was having serious issues in both of these browsers, more so in Opera. We had to completely disable this feature of Opera users, otherwise it would spike your CPU, and memory and most likely result in your browser crashing. Safari is not such an issue, I'm not sure if KnightAR disabled it for Safari, but regardless we will be working on it.

Thanks
Big thanks to KnightAR for his hard work and dedication to completing these features. Digi also did a some good work, including some nice management features in our Artician Admin Console. Oh and a big thanks to Eric for sitting on his ass all day.....Hehe...no just kidding, I was along side working with both KnightAR, and Digi, to make sure the front-end looked / worked well.

Another big thanks to all of YOU for keeping our motivations high, reporting bugs, and provided thoughts, opinions, and suggestions - and for giving us all the support we need to keep things kicking around here.....Artician is very close......

Again, Keep it real, more update to come....