08/08/08.

The day ShoutOut was reborn.

This marks the beginning of a better, faster and much improved ShoutOut.

Introducing to you,  ShoutOut Lounge, officially moved from its previous domain to ShoutOutLounge.com.

This still looks the same old ShoutOut, if you were wondering.

From the outside, there is not much different between the new and old ShoutOut.
But never judge a website by its mainpage.
In terms of speed, ShoutOut is much faster than before.
Lasker & Elise had switched ShoutOut to another server, ditching the old one which caused many problems.

There are also improvements in the ‘SO Design’ feature.

You can have as many SO Designs as you like and save them all under your SO account.

So you can change the style of the SO box in your website according to your mood of the day, or to suit the template of your website.

Think of a unique name for each and every design you created, as you just might see your newly created design being featured in ‘The Top-10 favorite Design’ on ShoutOut some day.
But for this feature to work, you have to embed the code of the particular design in your website.

Lasker & Elise also implemented the ‘Colour Auto Updater’ (i name it myself XP) in the SO Design.
This means that shouters can spend as much time as possible personalizing the SO box, and not worry about embedding the code each time they change the colour of the particular design, as it will be auto-updated.

One more new stuff in this upgraded ShoutOut is the ‘Alert’ feature.

You will be alerted everytime your name is called in SO where a thin coloured bar (the colour will depends on the colour you set in the SO Design) will appear at the far right of that particular shout where your name is being mentioned.

This feature will not work if the full nickname is not being typed or when you type your own name (but this will still function if stacked name like AlvinCcCcCc for AlvinC is being called)

Another small upgrade that comes together with the Alert feature is the name clicking function. Last time if I were to call a name of a particular shouter, I need to type out the name.
It is quite troublesome when typing longer names (thanks to those who registered such long nicknames).
But Lasker & Elise had found a solution for this problem.
So now if I wanna call a name, I just have to clicked the name of the particular shouter.
No more name typo error and no more fuss in typing longer names.

So this is how the improved ShoutOut looks like.
Log on to ShoutOutLounge.com to try out the upgraded ShoutOut yourself.
Experience the difference yourself.

Why removed my previous blog?
Nah. Nothing special. No specific reason.
Just feel like making a new one, since my previous one was always on and off.

I purposely picked this day to revamp my blog.
You surely know that today’s date is 08/08/08 which is a very auspicious and prosper day.
So it will be a good date for my new blog. (plus it’s a date that is easy to remember)

Today is also the opening ceremony of Beijing Summer Olympic Games 2008.

The first time Olympic is being held in an Asian country. Best of all, it is in China, the ‘hometown’ of all Chinese in the whole world. We should be proud.

(p/s: I was ‘witnessing’ the opening of Olympic 2008 while typing this post. LOL)

There’s one more thing happening today.
The reborn of ShoutOut!

ShoutOut is officially moved from its previous domain to ShoutOutLounge.com. *clap clap clap*
I’ll blog about it this coming Sunday.

Back to the topic of my revamped blog.
Hmmm. What should I say?
This is a photoblog, so there’s surely many photos to be posted in the future.
And I promise that I will update at least once a week. ><