Listography.com News!

Effective 9:00am, September 22, 2008
We are really excited to report that we finished a great new customization feature! When you are logged in, head to your settings. You can choose from some beautiful preset images Adam has created or you can upload your own photograph. The image you choose will be your background image for your Listography page. The image is tiled which means it repeats to the size of your Listography pages. You can have a little fun with it by choosing an image with smaller dimensions which will cause it to repeat more frequently.

We have been thinking of ways to make your Listography feel more like your own individual home, so we hope you like the update! As a side note, you can now choose "white" as your list color which may be more complimentary to your background image.

We've also found a way to customize our home page with a background image of our own. You'll see the photo image change often. We needed a way to make the home page more dynamic so we wouldn't tire of it. So if you dislike the image, don't worry, it'll change soon.

The Listography for Kids and Love themed Listography are now for sale at all the usual spots...

Hope everyone is having a great start to their Fall! Please let us know if you find any bugs!
Best wishes, L & A

Kid's & Love Listography

8/6/08 The Listography Book is currently sold out, but more will be arriving within the next 2 weeks!

The Listography Books Page

I discovered that the Listography for Kids Book and the Love Listography are available for pre-order already on various sites! I think they will be available for purchase in September at retailers and in August through online retailers.



The Kid's Listography is a listing guidebook perfect for kids ages 7 and up. There are everyday topics (like favorite movies, songs and books), fun topics (like what you would do if you were in charge and super powers you wish you had), and also more meaningful lists (like things you are thankful for and what you love most about your family). This is probably my favorite Listography. I wish I had one from when I was a kid [insert the "darn it face" and a foot kicking the grass]. Hopefully this makes a nice gift for kids that they'll keep as a time capsule.



The Love Listography is basically all about Love, from the general to the intimate details (like honeymoon destination ideas to break up mix tape songs), and the funny things (like relationship pet peeves or why you wouldn't date yourself), along with just remembering all your kisses and first dates or how you learned about sex [a girl named Julie showed me a playgirl mag in 4th grade and I thought his penis was a big belly button]. You definitely need a sense of humor when it comes to the ins and outs of love. Many of us have had these universal experiences with human relationships so it might even be fun to share with friends, maybe on a Valentine's Day get together?



Well, again, these books were mostly created to get us thinking about this crazy and wonderful thing we've been given: life. The lists are not about dwelling on the past, future or present, but mostly about taking a minute to honor them in all their glory and defeats --a form of personal entertainment. Thank you for your feedback and support and I hope you like the new books!

PS: Remember to register to VOTE for the November Elections!

Listography, The Book, Back on Shelves

The Listography Book is reprinted and now back on shelves! You can find them online at many small retailers, and also at Urban Outfitters, Barnes and Noble and many small gift & book shops! Another printing will be ready to go in August!

I received my first copy of Listography, For Kids. It is the sweetest thing! I am really excited about this book. I hope it will be something kids like and something they'll treasure when they grow into adults like us... Listography, For Kids will be out this Fall.

New Home Page

We've been trying to get this right: a home page that's simple, clean, and friendly. We also wanted something that caters to our desire to always want to change something. We solved this by adding the background photograph element which will change here and there (this sort of hints at what we're working on next with user customization).

We've also added a mascot down in the right corner. That's our cat Biko. On her page you can find occasional list ideas, past featured users, and site updates in nice concise lists (addressing requests listographers have written in).

Generally you only pop on the home page to log in, or peek at recent user lists, or do a search, so even though momentary, we hope you like it!

New Features & Book Update

Book News: Listography, The Book, has sold out of its second printing. Chronicle is reprinting round 3 and they should soon be back in small spaces and big spaces (Chronicle Books, Amazon, Fred Flare, Barnes & Noble, Urban Outfitters) in JUNE! The Kid's Listography and Love Listography are complete and will arrive in the Fall of 2008. Thank you for sharing the book with family and friends, and for your emails and support of the book!

Website News: We've added some new features listed below. Listography is just lisa + adam, so please help us by letting us know if you find any bugs via email (include your browser and operating system info). Visit the contact page for info.

Newness:
1. New formatting features (see guide for help): bold, italic, checkmarks, link single words or whole lines, urls now linked automatically, create sublists, create paragraphs within lists

(Note: There is one bug we are working out with single word linking. If you link a word at the end of a line, it links the whole line. We hope to resolve this soon.)

2. Both the list creation date and the updated date are viewable on your lists now

3. Streamlined "tools" menu and "show links" tool

4. Google maps and Flickr added to the link generator

5. Keep yourself logged-in by clicking the box on the home page

Coming Soon: We're working on customization options, list feeds so you can follow list updates easily, and more list tools.

Happy Spring!

** Newness Alert **

Search Lists: On each users page you will see a mini search box below their folders. You can now search within a user's PUBLIC lists. For example, if you're going to the bookstore and you know your friend has a great list on "books to read", you can easily find it amongst their lists. Also, list searching for yourself will be more convenient when you remember something you want to add to a list. When you are logged in, your "search within" results will include your private lists, but when you are logged out, private lists will remain excluded from the search results. Note: you can still search all of Listography from the front page.






Show Longer Lists in Place: Lists appear in an abbreviated form when they are longer than ten entries. You can now easily expand those lists in place for full viewing by clicking on "show all items" at the bottom of the list.







Favorites Updates: It use to be that you'd click on one of your favorite's updated lists and it would take you to their entire page. Now you can click on either the specific list to just see that list or you can click on their name and see their home page.









Listography, The Book: Thank you for continuing to write to me about the book. Chronicle Books should have it back on shelves by April 1, 2008. Listography, For Kids and The Love Listography will be out this Fall :-)


As usual, it's just me and adam here so we need your help with bug reporting. There's PCs, Macs, Firefox, IE and Safari we have to contend with so please let us know if you find any issues and please tell us the sequence of events and what operating system and browser you are using. Thank you and hope everyone is well!

New Home Page

We created a new home page to make your logging in experience a little smoother --hope you like it :-)