Many thanks to everybody who has donated lately - posters are going in the mail in another day or so. We still have more! Learn how you can help support Indexhibit.

We recently asked the Henry Rollins if he might be interested in doing something with Indexhibit but he very politely declined. We can't think of anybody we more admire and respect for his truer than true DIY ideals. Indexhibit has no intention of selling out, asking for venture capital funding or demanding that folks display advertising on their websites so we can make a few more dollars.

The project is supported 100% by donations and commissions that allow us to further explore what is possible with Indexhibit. However, we will likely create some new projects that will assist supporting the project in the near future.

Eloisa Astudillo and Antoine LaFontaine have been helping out both upfront and behind the scenes around here lately - their help is greatly appreciated and when you see them (around the forum or you get a note with their name on it) be sure to thank them as well. Teamwork!

Summer vacations are upon us and this year they will be a little longer than normal - we've worked hard, we think we deserve a little extra time this year. When we're back in the late summer/early fall expect some special announcements.

Have a happy summer everybody.

The poster is a collection of 'archetypal' objects displayed in an Indexhibit fashion. It is the first and only Indexhibit poster to-date. We have plans to do another but we are waiting for the project to grow more.

The poster was printed black with 100% yellow flourescent ink. The back is a yellow flood as well. It's a standard A2 format (roughly 17" x 24" for those of you in the states).

Make a donation of 15 euros or more, send us a note with your shipping address, and we'll get one off to you quickly.

Thanks!

UPDATE: We're sold out folks, thanks. ;)

In November, in the span of a few emails, the name Indexhibit appeared - we immediately knew the search was over.

Between November (when Dan, Flavia, Eloisa and I spent three exhaustive days of discovery for Indexhibit) and April, Indexhibit went through four radically different prototypes and I began to wonder if it was even possible to have a release.

It was. It's been a very fun year folks, thank you. It's been a privilege.

Our long term mission with Indexhibit is to maintain the simplicity, add features that make sense and try to vastly improve our media management tools. We would like you to be able to use Indexhibit to display your work for many years to come. When it's time for you to remodel your site, you should simply be able to build a new theme and still use the content in your database.

A new version is coming soon. Some new features, better tools, easier for developers to work with. Some new big features actually (we've mentioned them in the forum before though). We're very excited about how it's coming along.

We'd like to invite developers to join us improving and expanding Indexhibit. We are searching for skilled PHP, javascript and CSS developers. We have tasks great and small - just about any size task to fit your schedule. If you are interested our email is in the right column.

There are some amazing customized sites out there - we would love for some of the new innovations to be contributed back to the community for share. Soon we will open a repository of plugins, themes, etc., for people to freely download and use on their own sites.

Since our only form of advertising for Indexhibit are your kind links back to us, we would like to suggest that people blog about Indexhibit. We've had roughly 10,000 installations (an installation does not mean the site is being used) in our first year. We would like to hit 50,000 in our second year. With your help perhaps we can make this possible - let's continue getting the word out there.

We will be introducing some simple social networking like tools with the new version of Indexhibit as well (feeds, hcards) so your site can connect to other social websites and feedreaders.

We have a forum where you can express your problems and concerns with Indexhibit, but feel free to offer suggestions via email as well. If we are missing a great idea we certainly would love to hear about it.

First off, some updates were made for the Greek interface translation.

If you installed v0.70d and are sorting your Index using 'chronological' you might experience your exhibits appearing on your site out of order - this has been fixed. If you have this problem you can update just one file to deal with it - /ndxz-studio/plugin/index.php.

If you are looking for more complete upgrade instructions they can be found on the Indexhibit release page.

No other changes have been made to Indexhibit at this time.

We have been meaning to release some kind of geo-location package since the beginning of Indexhibit and now we are finally getting to it. We have converted the standard IP-to-Country.csv file into a series of easy to import .sql files. You can import them using PHPMyAdmin.

The files and installation instructions can be found in the downloads area.

This is not an official piece of Indexhibit, we are merely providing these as a fun accessory to your site. If you have problems let us know in the forum.

In the past, as we were tied up doing other things around this site, we would wait until we had thirty or fourty new sites to add to the list, but we're trying something different now. We're going to add six or seven sites a day (as we have a big backlog) to try to give the newest additions a little more time and exposure at the top of the list.

This means, that it might take a week or so from the time you notify us about your site until the time is appears on the list. Be patient, we think we're doing this the right way now. If you have a special exception we should know about (time sensitive) just let us know and we'll do what we can to accomodate.

Also, here is a new feed that has the latest 50 new participants.

Many thanks to all of the participants...

If your site is not on the participants list please send us a note at: contact [at] indexhibit [dot] org

Update: We've decided to update the list only on a monday, wednesday, friday schedule.

Thanks to our translators!

Pindaros Charissiadis and Thodoris Kominis (Greek) Marcus Wrango (Swedish) Lu Gao (Chinese)

If you would like to translate Indexhibit to your language please send us a note and we'll help you get started.

contact [at] indexhibit [dot] org

Thanks!

ps: We'll be tweaking things and updating content for the next couple of days as well.

First off, Indexhibit, when will the big update happen? We don't have a release date but we're working on it between other scheduled and unscheduled projects. It's coming along, we feel, very nicely. We'll make more announcements as we feel it's appropriate.

Hosting? Yes, but let's get the new version released first. Both, in the near future.

Many thanks for all the kind notes over the past couple of months. Sorry if we haven't responded (we will shortly). Now that the site upgrade is more or less finished, we can focus our attention back to the community. Cheers!