Ping-o-matic has received a makeover!
Dear Ping-o-matic users, I’m Isaac from Automattic. It was a while since anyone wrote on this blog, and I thought I’d fill you in on what’s been going on lately.
I’ve just performed a redesign on the Ping-o-matic website. The new look was launched a few weeks ago, and is meant to increase the usability of the service and make it look a bit more modern and well fitted for the WordPress/Automattic family.
For newcomers, there’s now a welcome message on top of the front page which gives you a Ping-o-matic crash course. Below this, you’ll find the familiar pinging form where you supply your blog details and select the services you want to ping. The whole form has been redesigned to stand out more from the rest of the content on the page, making it easier to see how it all fits together. The vertical space for the services list has been compressed. This list took up a big chunk of the screen before, but has now been compressed to 4 columns which saves a lot of space. …And the action button is now bigger than ever, so you can’t possibly miss it!
As for the Stats page, it’s received a minor update. The graph has been modified to fit with the new color scheme of Ping-o-matic.
The spirit behind the redesign was to give Ping-o-matic a graphical profile on it’s own, with bold colors that makes the service memorable. I also wanted to make it better tied in to the WordPress/Automattic family’s graphical profile and user interface ideas. You’ll notice similar fonts, navigation solutions and a fancy looking footer, as well as a good deal of “under the hood” similarities. Among those are the uses of CSS3 rules like border-radius, which gives people browsing Ping-o-matic in modern browsers a richer (and rounder!) experience.
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Is there something wrong with your blog? Several times now I’ve had 23 New Comment notifications for ALL the comments from this post sent to me as a subscriber to the topic, even though they are old comments. Its getting to be a bit annoying now! I know the simplest would be for me to unsubscribe, but thought you might like to know so you can fix it.
Thanks
Jim
I’m currently going through and moderating some old comments.
I received a lot one day last week and just got 30 today.
Yep, I’m aware. If you don’t want comment notifications from the Ping-o-matic blog, please use the Unsubscribe function. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hi. OK. Sometimes I ping twice, but sometimes (very often) I ping a site, wait some seconds and I ping ANOTHER blog, but comes the label Slow down cowboy. I go slow, but how long I must wait for ping different blogs?
Thanks
Thanks.
I appreciate the opportunity and service/ I double pinged by mistake. sorry about that.
Also I was wondering in you can recommend a reputable similar (yours preferred) for me to send out my business url
Thanks again.
jim
Ping-o-matic should suit most most of your needs. What other services do you want to ping?
Maybe you can create tools (software) for download and and any option like pingomatic and user can ping by that software š
People say that pinging is a waste of time these days, others say it’s as powerful as always…either way
I ping on
I like the colors – cheers!
Hi, thank you so much for the program you made. This was usefulness.
Woohoo yeaa… Well I just recently start using your service so I don’t know about your previous preface. But this is good. It’s so easy to navigate and more important very useful.
Love The Site!! Keep Up The Good Work !!
Just curious if you are still gathering info/stats or are you blogging somewhere else, 03/03/09 seems like a long time for such an interesting service. Thanks…
Fantastic design, and as usual, your site works incredibly well. Also, I forgot to mention that I hope you keep up the great work.
Thanks
Hello Isaac,
Can’t find any other way to communicate with you, no email contact or contact form.
How do I know that the pings have been successful using your ping-o-matic?
I love the service, thanks.
I also use Wayne Horkan’s Blog Ping.
Kind regards,
Ron
thanks pingomatic.com… I love you
I just used this service to ping my blog, for the first time and I can’t believe how fast it was. I am used to using the “other” services, but I’ll be using this one again.
Great, Automattic has some fantastic plugins. New to this service and I am here I was told to come here. Will ping my blog now.
A bit late… but the new design looks great! Haven’t used pingomatic for a while so the new design was a suprise.
Nice, personally i like the old one but this one look very simple for the eyes, good job.
The stats not working in Chrome (
what a great site
so easy to ping my blogs
Ping-o-matic is a fantastic tool for helping to increase seo for your site. Keep it up.
give us the old design back
Cool sevice…
Suggestion service: Email notification to ping back. My bookmark is so full…I cant reorganize it.
The redesign looks great and works really well . . . most of the time, at least for me. I keep getting this thing when I’m trying to submit where every once in a while I only get the field to enter the name of the blog. If I just enter the blog name and press enter on my keyboard it takes me to a blank white page that says ‘NoBlogUrl?’.
Is this your subtle way of getting me to slow down on using your excellent and graciously free service??
You know… I can’t access your page on firefox any longer š¦ I had to switch to another ping site. The makeover is not compatible? What happened?
Ping-o-matic should definitely be compatible with Firefox. Sometimes you need to update the browser though. Let us know if you keep experiencing oddities.
I’ve just started using Ping-O-Matic and love it. It’s so easy. I don’t know what the previous design was, but the one you have now is simple to understand and to use.
Thanks!
I just looked at the stats page and did not see a graph. Do I require a special firefox plugin to see it? I am really interested.
Looks more beautiful and faster than Ping Goat. I will be visiting here from now on..
Keep up the good work, WP team.
Nice and practical design
Just a super quick note that includes a GIGANTIC thank-you for all the remodeling you’ve done!
Love the new look and the service is as awesome as ever. Appreciate you.
I’ve visited this site a few times but all it ever says is come back later. The stats page is blank. Just what is it for and is it working or just abandoned like this blog?
Excellent tool you have here. Thanks so much!
This is great. You surely have very effective tools in place for us all to utilise and from which we can greatly benefit.
Hi,
I don’t see any statistics…is there something wrong with the page?
Thanks!
You need Flash to be able to see the stats graph. Download the latest Flash version from Adobe at get.adobe.com/flashplayer.
Must I visit the Ping-o-Matic Web site and press the “Send Pings” button every time we post to the blog? Or will Ping-oMatic follow our blog now that I have keyed the name and URL once?
Thank you in advance for clarifying this point.
You need to return to the bookmarked page to ping the services again. This is because we don’t want to put too much pressure on the services that we’re pinging.
This sure saves me a lot of time. Thanks!
Hi there, it looks great – but wasn’t working in firefox today (Sept 4) only first box was loading- Iwas using it a few days ago in firefox and it was fine … still loads properly in explorer, though.
Does this really work? I suppose you don’t really want to reveal how it works, but it’d be neat to have a bit of an understanding. I haven’t seen a blog post in over a year too, so I’m wondering if it’s still active? If not, do you have another project like this you’re working on?
Ping-o-matic is still active for sure. The blog has been neglected a bit though, going through and moderating comments now.
Thank you for the changes I find it simple to use and had no trouble finding submit button and knowing what to do. Great .
I just love pingomatic, I have tried other services and they just don’t cut the mustard
Anything new going on at this blog? Let me know! Thanks!
I consider this one of my best resources but now I can’t find the screen for input. Are you still up and running?
Indeed we are! Keep pinging… š