Bringing Sexy Back

In the words of Justin Timberlake: I have brought sexy back (stolen from Mike). I had a bunch of time on my hands after an early-morning migraine and decided to tackle the site layout. I have taken the Qwilm!2 theme and integrated it with my previous homegrown theme. The result is something fresher and yet still distinctive. Hopefully things look similar enough for the return visitors to still enjoy it.

A big thing I forgot to mention is that I have been unhappy with the way comments are displayed on the site for a long time. The new theme gives each comment a nice block, and my own comments have a light blue background so that they stand out as official replies. This alone would have been worth the changes.

Contact Form Fixed

I just realized that I never setup JasonBlogs.com to receive email when I switched hosts. So if you have tried to contact me using the site form it most likely didn’t work until now. So you can now contact me.

Should I Redesign?

I have been thinking lately if I should redesign JasonBlogs. I’m not quite happy with the design, and a better layout could utilize more screen space. Anyone who knows me will know that I frequently get tired of a site design that I never quite liked 100%. What do you, the reader, think? If you think I should redesign the site what kind of look would you like?

Nexus Trade Has Wishlists

Nexus Trade has a new feature called Wishlists. This is the feature I pushed for from the beginning, and it is a delight. Students are able to add books to their wishlist, and other people can then see what other students are looking to buy. When a book is listed for sale students with it in their wishlist will be notified by RSS feed or email. You can even add other items to your wishlist. I just added Mario Kart for Gamecube to mine.

Things are going very well and hopefully we’ll be able to open up to more colleges in a few weeks or months. Unfortunately we did launch at a time when college students are on their winter break and may not be looking to buy or sell books just yet.

Update: I didn’t realize all types of items could be added to your Wishlist already. I have updated the post to reflect that.

Nexus Trade is Back

Nexus Trade began as a TCNJ club that enabled students to buy and sell textbooks on campus. It has now been reborn and redesigned with better features, as it languished in limbo for months.

Students are still able to buy and sell books to other students online, but they now handle the trades themselves so there are no fees. We have a great system where you set a public place to complete the transaction once someone is buying your item. We have also expanded into other items besides textbooks, and a few other colleges besides TCNJ. All you need to do to access the site is go to www.nexustrade.com and enter the zip code of your college. You will then see available colleges in that area. If we don’t have your college listed you can request that we add it.

We have launched with the essential features, and some great new features are planned in the near future. One of the coming features is a wishlist that will notify you when items you are looking for have been posted to Nexus Trade.

We hope you enjoy it and had a happy holiday season.

The Nexus Trade Project Staff at Etation Media
Justin Jones and Jason Schramm

Acronym Creator Fixed

Apparently I forgot to update the database queries for the Acronym Creator when I migrated to the new host. These have since been fixed, so feel free to use the service again.

Thanks to Randy for pointing it out.

Hi ho, Hi ho, it’s off to post I go

Today marks my renewed push towards posting online and working on various projects. So you can expect to see a lot more from me starting today.

New Server

If you are viewing this then you are on the new server. All projects are moving to a GoDaddy hosting account. Updates will follow as DNS changes propagate.

Future of JasonBlogs, RadioFirefox, Nexus Trade, and all my other projects

Over the past few months, years even, I have been extremely busy with classes. As a result many of my sites have at times gone by the wayside. In a week and a half that is all going to change. I will have more time to work on select projects, and I will be blogging more often at AppleWatch, BusinessBits, and JasonBlogs. I will also be trying to edit as many radio shows as possibly to get them up at RadioFirefox.com. I currently have an enormous backlog of great content, since this semester marked a better planned radio show then last semester.

On the business/projects front Etation.com will be getting a makeover, and I am finally going to make a serious push into web design and getting clients over the next few months. Also, Nexus Trade will be launching in a few weeks as the destination for college students to buy and sell their items with each other. It won’t be only tangible items too, but I’ll tell you about that when the time comes. It has been coming along rather well thanks to my team of coding ninjas.

The next few months will see a renewed push to turn my ideas and obsessions into a business. This could be the only time I will have the opportunity before I have to get a 9-5 job when I graduate, and if it works I will be able to continue developing my own projects full-time. Otherwise I will only be able to work on my projects in my spare time. So now is the time for you to let me know what changes you would like to see, otherwise I will just let you know as I improve and update my various projects.

Nexus Trade: Beta Testers Needed

Do you like testing out the coolest new projects around? Do you get joy from finding bugs? Then we want you to beta test Nexus Trade. We are building a great place for college students to buy and sell items to others nearby. This is your chance to help us make sure that everything works as expected when we launch.

More details are up at www.NexusTrade.com. And you can post comments here if you have any questions.