MyChores Journal

Firstly - I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!! Within minutes of sending out the email saying MyChores was back, the site was once again buzzing with activity. I have had several encouraging emails both today and yesterday, and i received no complaints at all. Thank you so much, all of you, for being so wonderfully understanding.
From what [...]

I am so sorry for all the downtime we are having.
The good news is, our web host company have finally responded to us and are working to get the site back up as quickly as possible. Please keep checking because it ought to be back any minute now.
The even better news is, i have received [...]

Some rather sweet new changes have gone live tonight. I wanted to release them last night, but needed to check a few more things before i did.
Pictures
You can now upload pictures to MyChores! Before you get too excited, they can only be up to 90KB. I don’t know why; it’s not a restriction i would [...]

Thanks to Bill for testing what i failed to test - the calendar dropdown stopped working as a result of the changes i made last night. My bad entirely for not checking it properly.
Temporarily i have gone for a 2-column approach, which i know is less than ideal because it can bunch up on your [...]

Another suggestion from Bill - this time to do with the create task screen. You should see it fits better on the screen now, hopefully eliminating the need to scroll down to click the submit button.
To achieve this, the advanced options have been moved to a separate tab. Okay, this involves an extra click, but [...]

As suggested in an email from Bill:
Please provide a way to change the default for a new task from recurring to one-time. I add one-time tasks every day, recurring ones infrequently.
With a Task Template, you can now do exactly that. If you often create tasks with the same recurrence options you can set your preference [...]

I have set up a spreadsheet as a simple way of tracking changes. both planned and implemented.
Thanks to the magic of Google Docs, you can view the spreadsheet here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pUD7k2bBbYANvLZWo6l7_Jg&gid=0
Have a look to see some of the ideas in the pipeline! :)