In other news finals time are approaching and that should free up a fair amount of my time to work on it.  Should being the operative word there.  Who knows what will actually happen around here.

• User Profile Browsing – You may browse through all user profiles by cookies or date joined.  From the profile you can see the recipes that user has posted.
• Title Search – Title search has been added.  You may now search the recipes on Fridge to Food by title.
• Recipe Delete – You may now delete recipes you posted by accident or double posted.
• Image Delete – You may now delete images you previously posted when you have a better image.
• Image Recrop – You can now recrop an image from the full image at any time.
• New Icons and L&F stuff.

Also added were some bug fixes and stuff to make posting a recipe easier.  You are now asked if you really want to leave the posting page when you accidentally hit the back button.  And the validation checking is performed before posting, so you won’t lose the recipe if you’ve forgotten something.  Additionally, the double posting catch was updated somewhat.  It ought to be more effective.  Enjoy!

Currently on the known issues list: the suggestions box has problems in opera.

I’ll be working to fix that.

In the mean time, if you have any foodie, chef, cook or food photographer friends who you think would be interested in Fridge to Food – send em this way!

• Image Cropping – You can now crop images you post.
• Ingredient and Tag Suggestions – Suggestions for ingredients or tags are presented to you while you type.
  • In Search
  • In Filter
  • While Adding Recipes for both Ingredients and Tags
• Community Recipes – You can now add recipes that are not yours.

There’s a fair amount of polishing that needs to be done in the beta.  I need to split up the javascript and css to reduce conflicts and increase load speed.  I need to optimize the javascript and ajax for speed, right now it isn’t at all optimized.  Particularly with suggestions.  And there are lots of little spit and polish things that need to be done, as well as bugs to be removed, I’m sure.  But we’re in beta!

• Voting on Images
  • 1 image up vote gives the poster of the image 2 reputation
  • 1 image down vote takes 2 reputation from the poster of the image
  • images in the gallery are ordered by number of votes
  • the poster of the image is now displayed underneath the image

The top voted image doesn’t yet display in recipe browsing or viewing, but that improvement will come soon.  In the mean time, enjoy the images!

Among the fixed bugs:

• Slashes will not longer be added before quotes when adding recipes, editing recipes or editing your profile.
• When adding or editing a recipe you can now delete extra ingredient and instruction fields that you’d added with the “+ add another ingredient” or “+ add another instruction” link.
• A number of small style enhancements were made.  Particularly, when user names and recipe titles are too long, they no longer overflow their box in the browse display.

Among the things that are included in this version are:

• A new look and feel
• Recipe browsing including
  • Ordering by votes, newest, oldest or relevance (when searching)
  • paging with 12 recipes per page
  • recipe display in browse that shows their image prominently
• Adding recipes
• Editing recipes
• Image galleries for each recipe
  • image upload to those galleries
• Profile page
  • profile photo
  • editing profile page
  • posted recipes with browsing on profile page
• Recipe ingredient search
• Voting on recipes

Things that haven’t yet made their way into the alpha:

• tagging
  • browse by tags
  • filter search and recipe browse using tags
  • viewing recipes for tag
  • retagging a recipe
• voting on images
• advanced search
• ingredient and tag suggestions

Once all those features are included we’ll spend some time testing in feature complete alpha and then go to open beta with open registration.

Fridge to Food is steadily marching forward.  We’re almost there, just little bit more to do.