Tweaks, Features, and Fixes!

Jan 15, 2007 |  Vinquire (14) |  News & Updates |  3 comments

Well, Vinquire has been online for about 3 weeks now, and we received some great feedback. Everyone had ideas and so did we ... we wanted to keep drinking red wine and everybody else wanted us to tweak, fix, and add new features to the site.
We're happy to say you won! So we've added a bunch of new stuff and released the code late Sunday night (1/14/07). Here's a list of what's new ....

• These blog/news entries! Aka, our pulpit :)
• Cleaner display of prices (aka, $9,999.00 instead of $9999.0)
• Larger list of recent reviews and recent forum posts on homepage
• Added Pinot Noir as a possible "favorite wine" on account creation (for you s-dogg)
• Google ads!! Just what you all wanted ;)
• Added wine scoring explanation/key (for 50-100 point scale)
• Reviews can now specify non vintage (NV) for the year
• Added "Welcome, Username" to upper corner if you are logged in
• Searches now "stem" words, aka searching Penfolds/Penfold/Penfold's is the same
• Searches use synonyms now, aka Ch/Chateau are same, Cab/Cabernet, Zin/Zinfandel, etc
• Some common misspellings should now be caught for tough words like Sauvignon, Bordeaux, Champagne, etc.

Hopefully these will make the site a bit more useful. Enjoy and Happy New Year!!

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