Saturday, October 25, 2008

New improvement: Speeeeeed it up!

The latest version that was deployed on last Friday (October 24) had a very small change - we did some optimization using JAWR https://jawr.dev.java.net/

The results are amazing - the speed of loading of all pages improved dramatically - in most cases by 30-50%.

Enjoy a faster Internet Polyglot - learn foreign languages while playing games!

Friday, October 10, 2008

New version of the site

Today our team deployed a new version of the site. The main changes are the following:

1) Improved sidebar - didn't you hate it when it was loading for about 5 extra seconds after the page was loaded. So, not anymore. Now he sidebar is loading quickly and the whole page is loading quickly too. Still, in this sidebar you can see the same information as before: your session game score, last played lessons, the champions of gaming.

2) iPoly widget. Now you and everybody can place an InternetPolyglot lessons on your blog or your site! For that go to http://www.internetpolyglot.com/widget.html , select languages that you like to show on your page in the widget, copy the code and paste it on your site or blog. Afte that your blog or site will start showing lessons directly from Internet Polyglot. And it will look like this:



The code for this widget was:


but you can change the languages in this code. For example, if you want to show Spanish-French lessons then simply change wordLanguage and translationLanguage parameters in this code like this:



and the widget will start showing Spanish-French lessons like this:




So please hurry and place this widget on your site or blog, make your visitors happy with playing Internet Polyglot language games!


What's next. The next couple of weeks our main goal becomes speeding up the site. We are going to work on making site's pages loading faster. Especially it's important for the game pages - iPoly gamers, stay tuned!