We flipped the switch almost two weeks ago and for the most part things are running smoothly. We found some problems with classifieds which have been fixed… image uploads were a little buggy, and the submission forms were misbehaving. These things have been resolved but we’re still having a little problem with ads that have [...]

A few hours ago… at about 1:18 am CDT, to be more exact… the new Naperthrill.com went live! There are still a couple of outstanding issues with Firefox browsers but all of our major features are working and we’re ready to start filling the site with restaurant reviews, classified ads, videos, and local events. We should [...]

Yesterday my brother and I both went to Naperville to photograph the splendor of Ribfest (and Naperville in general) for our homepage, but the irony is that we never saw each other! We were planning to go together but I got held up because I needed to get some cards printed with our logo plus I also realized [...]

According to this article, “Texas based ISP Redmoon has implemented software that hijacks pages being visited by their customers by placing Redmoon’s own ads on these pages.”
Ugh! Aside from being evil and wrong, plastering your own ads on someone else’s website is like putting the words SUE ME on a giant billboard. I don’t think [...]

We’re almost there. Our engineer has a crazy amount of work to do before we unveil the new Naperthrill.com in a little over a week… sucks to be you Patrick!!
Even though we’ll be going live, we won’t be going on any all-out advertising blitz because we want to kind of phase people into it. In other [...]

Now that it’s almost summer (it doesn’t “officially” start until June 21), I feel compelled to take a break from talking about Thrill and focus on the #1 threat to America: BEARS.
Last night I was watching the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet or something, and it was a show about bears. Did you know they can run [...]

The test version of our restaurant guide blows, which you probably already know if you read my last post. In the course of combing through all of the comments made by our testers, we had a long talk about what to do with this little conundrum and a couple of crappy ideas were tossed around. How are [...]

We’ve gotten some more test results in, and here’s what we’ve learned so far:

Our homepage sucks. As of right now, our homepage has very little in the way of graphics and this doesn’t exactly excite the people who have seen it so far. We privately rationalized the text-heavy layout by pointing out that craigslist doesn’t have graphics and they’re [...]

Well it’s been a while since this blog was born… frankly, there hasn’t been much that we could write about publically. We’ve been building the site, making decisions, fine tuning, yada yada yada. But we’re just about ready to release the next incarnation of Naperthrill.com! See my last post (yeah, the one from 9 months ago) for [...]

Since this is the first post on naperthrillblog.com, I should probably start by introducing myself or talking about why we’re blogging or blah blah blah… but the first order of business here is to pat myself and my partners on the back for starting Naperthrill.com 5 years ago today! Or maybe we all deserve a [...]