Stories from August 17th, 2008

Multiple Language Update

I've now completed the process of converting the front-end templates of Pixaria to provide the ability to translate them into languages other than English. This has been a huge amount of work as the 100 template files have all had to be individually converted by hand which has resulted in two English language files (one for web text and one for e-mail text) containing 826 strings of text.

I will be publishing the English language strings file in the next day or two so that those who are interested can begin work on translating the software into other languages. Watch this space for more news coming soon..!

Pixaria Update

The Pixaria website has now moved to a new home with Demon Virtual Servers in the UK. I'd been having some issues with the performance of my Dedicated Virtual server with MediaTemple for some time and finally decided to stump up a bit more for faster hosting here in the UK.

I'm really pleased with how this has worked out as I'd used Demon for hosting before but hadn't realised how good they are until I tried alternatives that look cheaper but either have a poor level of service or charge extra for even basic features offered by Demon.

In other news, I want to let everyone know that I will be uncontactable between the 24th of August and 13th of September as I take a two week vacation. If you're planning to purchase Pixaria during this time, please complete the purchase before I go or else hold off until I get back as I will not be able to respond to purchase requests during this time.

I'm hoping to release Pixaria 2.5 before I go away but I'm not sure if this is a good idea as it's a fairly major upgrade due to having added support for localisation so I've not made up my mind yet. Watch this space for more details...