Top ten searches

One of the things that the Friends For peace software allows us to do, is track what search terms are entered into the search field (don't worry, it just saves the terms, not who searched for them). As of this morning there have been more than 5000 searches performed on the Friends For Peace site, and I thought you might be interested in the top 10 searches. Each links to those results so you can see what's so popular.

1. DC March (although I noticed you get more images from the DC march, if you just search for March. I'll having to figure that one out): 219
2. Quaker: 172
3. Carl: 149
4. swarthmore: 141
5. Coding: 122
6. mothers: 99
7. dog: 95
8. afsc people: 64
9. baltimore: 58
10. YAF: 55

Given the number of people that have searched for Kent state since those images were posted the other day, I expect it will be on the top 10 list soon.

Aaron
Coding for Peace

Better Image Browsing

Most people probably haven't noticed, but everyone couple of days we post a few updates to FriendsForPeace.org. Mostly they are small changes like bug fixes, and minor tweaks, sometimes they have been big (like when we added slideshows) and I make a point to bring them up here. Today's update was about 1/2 way between the two. While most of the changes were small design improvements, there are two changes I wanted to point out.

First, you can once again get the recent images from the home page with 1 click. If you click "Browse more photos" you will be taken to the new browsing page, which starts with a slideshow of the recent images. Right now that page doesn't have any new features on it, but it creates a space for us to provide more ways for to explore the pictures. We are kicking around ideas like: showing the most popular tags, slideshows by city and state, popular searches. We're not sure which we'll do in what order, but stay tuned to see what we come up with. If you have ideas please let us know and we'll add them to the mix.

The second improvement today is a small improvement to the search engine. If you enter a US state, you will get only images from that state. So to see all the images from Colorado search for CO. Hopefully this will make it easier to find images that are interesting to you.

Your input is always welcome.
Aaron
Coding for Peace

DC March pictures posted!

Terry and I spent the last couple of days posting the pictures that he took this weekend in DC. We tagged all those pictures with "DC March", so that you can find them all by searching for "DC March".

If you took pictures during the march that you would like to contribute, we'd love to see them. Put "DC March" into the tags field on the upload form, and your pictures will be displayed along with all the others.

Thanks for participating.
Aaron
Coding for Peace.