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Very nice. I'm impressed with turning that out in four weeks based on starting with no programming/html knowledge. As far as the CSS goes, one thing that helped me was using one of the many CSS frameworks out there. You might try that if you run into more issues going forward. I'm using blueprint for now, but there are several out there to choose from.
Feature request: show book cover art.
Small Tip: --Have a friendlier URL for users. I.e., If I want to share my list with someone offline, I'd prefer to say, "Hey checkout 7bks.com/user/steamer25" rather than "7bks.com/user/1094004".
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AppEngine claims to provide enough free bandwidth for ~5 million pageviews/month. Did you hit that limit from just this HN post?
I'm really new to this so not really sure. When you enable billing your free limits increase (weird I know) and I don't think I've actually incurred any costs as a result. I don't really know how well optimised my site is so it may be that it could scale up to those numbers if the back end was better? That said, all the limits are daily on app engine so maybe it was just that the spike was big enough to bust my daily…
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I'm really new to this so not really sure. When you enable billing your free limits increase (weird I know) and I don't think I've actually incurred any costs as a result. I don't really know how well optimised my site is so it may be that it could scale up to those numbers if the back end was better? That said, all the limits are daily on app engine so maybe it was just that the spike was big enough to bust my daily…
Will you share the traffic numbers to illuminate at what point the free-with-no-credit-card GAE quotas really kick in?
Very nice. I'm impressed with turning that out in four weeks based on starting with no programming/html knowledge. As far as the CSS goes, one thing that helped me was using one of the many CSS frameworks out there. You might try that if you run into more issues going forward. I'm using blueprint for now, but there are several out there to choose from.
I have no idea what a CSS framework is but I'll put it on my todo list to find out! Thanks :)
They basically have a set of predefined CSS classes for layouts to give you a starting point. Blueprint and some of the others also have a default set of styles predefined, and you can find several examples of people who have added to them. It basically gave me a good starting point instead of having to hack up my own CSS from the start.
They also claim to help resolve several of the CSS differences between browsers, but I haven't tested that first hand yet.
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When in the middle of a project, i suddenly get a "better" idea and abandon the current project to work on the better one.
Is it that the idea is better, or is it that you hit a wall in your programming? (This has been my excuse to myself before)
Took me a while to realize that sometimes the real reason I canceled my projects were because of laziness.
1) I'm not sure whether you're using Amazon referral links. You can show the book cover next to the title linking it to the amazon using the associate tag. It will fetch you some decent money I believe if someone buys the books using the links. Have never used but read about this in Stackoverflow.
2) You can use amazon.com/books instead of amazon.com in the Stuck? message link when adding a new book.
Great work!!