Indexhibit^TM
Index + Exhibit

Delete Installation Files

2009-06-09 21:11:08

It's stated in our installation instructions (and I'm about to make it bold and red) but you must delete your install.php file once you have completed your installation. If you have not done this already, do it now. If you don't remember if you've done this, check it now. It's imperative.

The file is found in your 'ndxz-studio' folder.

And since we put out a note about this a couple months ago, be sure you also delete the Password Recovery Script after you are finished using it as well.

Participants List Part Two

2009-03-24 23:11:25

It seems that the new thumbnailed participants page and the addition of thumbnails to the participants feed has been rather popular. People like it, we like it - luckily, nobody has complained yet. As long as our bandwidth costs don't get out of control we'll keep it going.

We've already made it known that we want to keep the list as a slow stream of user sites and give every site an opportunity to get a couple days worth of referral traffic, but we are currently running a backlog of additions to the list - a couple months right now. We're sorry for the delay (those of you who keep emailing us).

We may need to increase the daily number of sites for awhile so we can catch up. It's not the ideal solution but people shouldn't have to wait two months for their site to appear either. So, occasionally you may see more than the usual number of sites.

For those who aren't aware of the 'policy', we update the list three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Finally, a word to everybody asking to be added to the participants queue - spend a little time making something special for the frontpage of your site. We've already noticed how a compelling image or graphic can significantly increase the amount of referrals your site may receive. We've done some checking on the amount of referrals we've been generating for people and it's pretty nice.

It's also a good idea to be a bit more diligent about testing your site in the various browsers - Indexhibit does work very well in Internet Explorer if you take the time to resolve the issues. We offer help in our forum and there are tons of threads on the most common issues already.

Participants List Update

2009-03-06 23:55:57

We're going to try displaying thumbnails of the most recently added participant sites on the main page of the website - for the moment it's an experimental change but if people like it we'll likely keep it around.

Hopefully, this will be an additional boost to new sites - sending them even a little more traffic.

Special thanks to Daniel Morris for showing us how to get this done.

And thanks to everybody for using Indexhibit.

(Thumbnails are generated by the great Thumbalizr service.)

Password Recovery Script

2009-02-21 00:50:05

Just wanted to make a very fast note about this - if you have used the Password Recovery Script in the past to resest your Indexhibit login and password you absolutely must delete it from your server. There is no other option - delete it when you are done and also reset your login information to something you can remember but that is not easy to guess.

Failure to delete this file from your server leaves your system exposed to unwanted visitors.

It has been stated on the informational page about this script ever since we released it, but it seems it needs to be repeated.

Why don't you blog more?

2009-02-04 16:33:59

I'm asked often enough, or I'm told, that we should write more about this project via the news/blog. It's a fair question.

From the very beginning Dan and myself thought of this as an experimental project. We don't have a set of goals to achieve in terms of traffic or usership. We had a naive belief that if we did this well maybe people would use it.

We had no idea Indexhibit would become useful.

While we do have many things we could talk about regarding Indexhibit, the difficulties of giving away free software, the amount of time it takes to make something 'simple' (for lack of a better word), how we see our community in relation to base statistics/traffic, tutorials for doing things better (although this is coming), we've wanted to remain neutral.

We do not blatantly advertise ourselves. We do not advertise other things on our website for profit. On a few occasions I've asked that we not be linked up on the big designer portals - that's kind of crazy isn't it?

No. Our experiment does seem to be working because we just had our biggest traffic month to date. Nearly every month is better than the previous month. Slow growth, the long tail. We are only supported by users - we feel like it's a completely independent project.

That being said, very soon now we are going to make some changes. It's time to do more promotion of some of the amazing work from Indexhibit users beyond our participants list. I'll soon have a blog that will deal with many things but also Indexhibit and programming for designers. We feel it's the next logical step in the slow evolution of this project.

We have been testing the new version of Indexhibit - there are a few sites out there now. All seems to be going well and it's not far away.

We hope you will stay tuned.

Artists Only

2009-01-07 00:15:28

Tis the season

2008-12-19 11:08:35

Thanks to everybody who participated and contributed to Indexhibit in 2008 - we're greatful for all your efforts.

Best wishes and happy holidays, we'll see you in 2009.

Teaching Indexhibit

2008-12-14 19:39:57

We have noticed a good number of design programs adding workshops on Indexhibit to their cirriculum - we would like to know how we can be of assistance (aside from showing up in person).

If you are teaching coursework for Indexhibit or know somebody who is and would like to help us organize some teaching guides, please get in touch. All we ask is that you tell us of your experiences and have some suggestions ready for us.

Contact us at the email on the right. Thanks.

Those are some nice shoes

2008-11-19 12:34:14

We've been working very hard lately on, well, you know. Things are progressing very well. And soon, we'll tell you more.

For the fun of it we thought we would post some of the nice notes people have sent us recently.

Thanks to create indexhibit.

I love the Indexhibit platform!

Thanks for the Indexhibit. It changed my perspective of the whole web languages, and even learned some CSS, PHP and Javascript.

Indexhibit makes things so much fun!

Thanks a lot for making my website possible.

I'm loving Indexhibit so far, and the forum is really helpful.

I've just finished my photo portfolio thanks to your amazing indexhibit and will be happy to be in your participant list.

Great software guys! Best interface out there. Clean and simple. Thanks again!

We think you are pretty hot too!

Some Updates

2008-10-08 11:01:28

Hello.

We are trying to catch up again on our participants list. We managed to get many weeks behind so please be patient - everybody who has emailed us is now in the queue.

Thanks