29th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
Today we implemented TinyMCE on TravelStash. TinyMCE is an open-source WYSIWYG editor which will allow you much greater control over the layout of your blog entries, wishlist items and travel tips. The best way to see this in action is to go to your Control Panel and add/edit a new entry, wishlist item or travel tip. While performing these actions check out the super cool editor window - it used to be a plain old textbox but now has a whole load of buttons along the top. For those that know TinyMCE, yes, we’ve opted to remove a lot of the available from our implementation because they’re simply not needed on TravelStash.
From a member point of view you can use the new editor to embed pictures, movies (e.g. YouTube!), to make parts of your text bold/underline/italic, increase font sizes or easily create bulleted & numbered lists.
This is a pretty major change in the way the TravelStash control panel UI looks and works so if you encounter any problems with the content of your entries please send an email to bugs [at] travelstash [dot] com - we’ll address your concerns as soon as we possibly can.
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
When posting a new entry on TravelStash you can now choose to update your Facebook profile or your Twitter status once your post is complete. Now all your friends and family can get real-time updates on your TravelStash entries.
Of course, once you’ve got them hooked on reading about your travels why not get them to subscribe to your RSS feed?
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
You can now export your trips as editable RTF (rich text format) documents. Why? There are plenty of people out there, including us, who think the idea of a coffee table version of your trips is great!
Once exported to an RTF file you can edit the file in an RTF-compatible application (e.g. Microsoft Word) and modify the layout to your heart’s content. When you’ve finished editing you can print it, email it - the possibilities are up to you.
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
A great way to both get and share information about things you should and shouldn’t do while travelling is to use TravelStash Travel Tips. Chances are someone has been to the places you’re about to go and there’s also an excellent chance they know something about your destination that you don’t.
Likewise, if you return from a trip and have found a juicy tidbit of information share it for everyone to see!
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
One of the best features of TravelStash is the ability for you to upload as many photos as you want and display them throughout your entries. With this in mind you can now direct your friends and family to a single page so that they can view ALL your group’s photos. If your group’s URL is http://www.travelstash.com/my-travels/ your group’s photo URL would be as follows.
http://www.travelstash.com/my-travels/photos/0/ - please take care to include the 0 on the end!
Note: The above URLs are provided as samples only but may reflect an actual URL on TravelStash if a member chooses to use that name.
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
All TravelStash groups now provide an RSS feed. Sending bulk email messages to your friends and family can be a bit of a pain so we figured it was time to allow THEM to come to YOU, rather than the other way around.
The creators of TravelStash use and recommend Google Reader for reading RSS feeds.
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27th January 2009 ·
In New Features ·
Posted by chris
You can now take the contents of your wishlist and export it as a PDF document. What better way to keep a list of all the cool things you want to see and places you want to go? We recommend using these PDF documents so that you can keep a copy of your wishlist items’ details with you while you travel.
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