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HAPPY BIRTHDAY REEFSPACE!

It's tough to believe ReefSpace is already a year old. It started as an experiment... I honestly wasn't sure anyone would find it useful. But apparently, I miscalculated, as we have nearly 300 members with countless profiles, photos, videos, and blogs!!! Thanks to all who dove right in and showed me that this crazy little idea of a reef aquarium social network could actually work! And here's to many more years, and many more members. Cheers, Travis Continue

Added by Travis on March 3, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

How to unclutter your ReefSpace page... a bit.

Not using that video, photo or friends box on your home page? There are a couple simple steps to remove them.

Go to "edit page appearance" in the lefthand corner below the navigation tabs.

Click the "advanced" tab on the page that loads.

Enter the code below for the thingy you want to go away (technically speaking) and save. If you decide you want that thingy b

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Added by Travis on March 19, 2007 at 10:39pm — 2 Comments

WWW.REEFSPACE.NET

Just a quick note to let everyone know our new web address: www.reefspace.net ! Much easier to type in and tell your friends about...

One quick note- still ironing out a wrinkle that has the non-www version (http://reefspace.net) not working right, so make sure you hit the "w" three times!

The reefaquarium.ning.com address still works for now, but if you have any links out there you should cha… Continue

Added by Travis on March 15, 2007 at 11:15pm — No Comments

ReefSpace Domain name update

Welp folks, I put in a good effort to acquire reefspace.com as our new web address. I have already acquired reefspace.net and reefspace.org

I put an offer of $60 on reefspace.com, which was already owned by someone who had it parked (i.e., squatter). This person put the domain up for auction. The auction ends around 1PM EST today. After several attempts, I have been outbid at $270 for this domain name. It has gone beyond what I’m willing to pay with the site sti… Continue

Added by Travis on March 14, 2007 at 10:42am — 3 Comments

ReefSpace is 50 members strong!

This sure has been a 1.5-week adventure so far... never thought I'd be announcing our 50th member already!

Please take a moment to say hi to Number 50
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Added by Travis on March 12, 2007 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Adding a big photo

Aquaman... When clicking on the picture icon to add a photo to your blog post, you get this "upload a photo:" window. You have to click on the ">options" to expand them. Looks like it automatically resizes photos to 300px if you don't tell it otherwise. Some of the other options are cool though...

Example: Click on the photo of what I'm talking about below and it will pop open full-sized in a new window!

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Added by Travis on March 8, 2007 at 10:29pm — 2 Comments

ReefSpace: Where do we go from here?

As many of you know, I started this social network because I saw a need for something like this, but also firmly based in the reality that the reefing community may not be ready for such a thing yet.

Less than a week and 30 members later, I'm convinced it could work! But... 30 folks does not a social network make.

To that end, I invite you to please read this article written by the CEO of ning:
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Added by Travis on March 8, 2007 at 12:27pm — 2 Comments

How to add a "ReefSpace" button to your ReefSanctuary posts

When logged in to RS...

1. Click on "UserCP"
2. Click "Edit Profile"
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom. There, you will see an area to type in your ReefSpace username... type the NAME, not the URL to your profile.
4. Save.

It should look like this, below the "karma" link:

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Added by Travis on March 6, 2007 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Make that 18 members...

If you want to see the progress of the skin I'm working on for this site, check out my page.

It'll be ugly and funky at times as I work on it, but it's coming together!
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Added by Travis on March 3, 2007 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

13 Members and Counting

OK, so far we've got a total of 13 people signed up. Which is good, and I hope you're all playing with your profiles to see how they can work together with your favorite Reef Forum and other sites.

Keep in mind that we're measuring the interest in this site to see what people think. Tell me your thoughts by adding a comment to this blog post.

If you really want this to take off, we'll need to spread the word to our friends in the reefing world. This could be really big, but… Continue

Added by Travis on March 3, 2007 at 11:12am — 1 Comment

So, you've started a social network...

I thought I would create this Reef Aquarium network as an experiment to see if the saltwater aquarium world is ready for this!

We shall see... feel free to comment and tell me what you think. Although... leaving a comment would be confirming my decision.
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Added by Travis on March 2, 2007 at 12:56pm — 2 Comments