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by Joel Rosenberg, published on July 30, 2009 at 1:50 AM

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Have you ever noticed yourself straining to make out someone's profile picture? Perhaps you've had trouble seeing detail in an article photo. If so, you'll be pleased to know that tonight we've rolled out an update to The Sacramento Press that should make your pictures clearer and smoother than they've been before. Initially, you'll only see the difference in pictures uploaded after today, but in a few days we'll go back and fix everything uploaded to the site since day one. In addition, article images now appear in the order in which they were uploaded, and we're now accepting a few more image file types (although we recommend sticking with JPEG or PNG files).

We also added a few new capabilities and crossed some items off our list of known problems. Here are just a few of the 35 fixes and additions we've made:

  • Improved article pages so the text loads instantly (no more waiting for the whole page to load on your mobile device)
  • Fixed your personal tag clouds
  • Made the site work better in Internet Explorer 6 (but please upgrade to IE8!)
  • Darkened the text throughout the site to make it a little easier on your eyes
  • Fixed a problem when writing articles with Safari 4
  • Tweaked our layouts to have Featured Pictures clickable, and added quotes around Featured Comments (see picture above)

As always, let us know if you have any questions or comments.

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July 30, 2009 | 4:30 AM
It's come to our attention that people are having trouble writing and uploading pictures in Internet Explorer 8 (both before and after the change described here). We're working on it and will get it fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime, we've verified that the writing tools currently work well with Firefox and Safari if you want to use a temporary solution.
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July 30, 2009 | 11:48 AM
I'm glad that the pictures are uploading in order now, that will be helpful in following the story visually!
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July 30, 2009 | 2:06 PM
AWESOME! Photos in order is a good thing. :-) Makes photographers cheer. "and the crowd goes wild"!
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July 30, 2009 | 10:05 PM
I am ridiculously excited about this
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July 31, 2009 | 1:15 AM
Hooray! I have to agree with Hawa and Jenn... we can give the correct credit where it's due now! Great job on making SacPress even better than it already is!
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August 2, 2009 | 12:39 AM
Thanks everyone! I just want to add that tonight we released another fix that addresses some outstanding Internet Explorer 8 issues. The writer's dashboard and article creation pages now look like they're supposed to, and images can be uploaded without those annoying popup errors.
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