June 2009
9 posts
Digging Deeper...continued (Part 6 & Conclusion)
Profile Info:
Don’t forget to update your profile info in the account setting! You can add your location, a link to your website, and a blurb about you and your tea experience, knowledge, and preferences.
Conclusion…
That will do it for us folks! This should give you a good idea of how to use each of these new features to your advantage. We hope you enjoy everything Steepster has...
Digging Deeper...continued (Part 5)
“Sort By” (on the Browse Teas page):
You can also sort the teas using a couple different methods, Tea Name (alphabetical), Newly Added (newest teas entered on Steepster), and Most Popular. The first two are fairly standard, but let’s dive into some details about the Most Popular.
The Most Popular teas are the ones with the greatest number of tasting notes. The more tasting...
Digging Deeper...continued (Part 4)
Browse Teas:
We were finally able to improve the Browse Teas area (yea!!). Browse by brand and/or tea type by clicking on the filters toward the top. You can filter by one thing at a time (all oolongs or all tea from Rishi Tea) or combine filters (all oolongs from Rishi Tea) by selecting both the tea brand and type.
Up next, Sorting teas…
- Jason
Digging Deeper...continued (Part 2)
Shopping List:
A number of people have asked for a way to bookmark teas they want to try in the future. Enter, the Shopping List. On each tea page you can click the “Add to shopping list” link to save it for later. Just click the “Shopping List” tab to see everything you’ve bookmarked.
Up next, Live Search…
- Jason
Digging Deeper…continued (Part1)
“Recent Activity” (feed):
The “Recent Activity” feed gives you real time updates from your “Friends” (people you are following) and “Everyone” (the entire Steepster community). The following actions are posted in the Recent Activity feed:
Someone logs a tea by clicking the “I drank this” button
Someone writes a tasting note
Someone gives a thumbs up/thumbs down rating
Someone starts following...
Digging Deeper: Details on some of Steepster's new...
Steepster is chalk full of features (with more coming!) that help you track your teas and connect with similar users. So I’d like to dig a little deeper and talk about how you can use them to their fullest. Let’s see what we’ve got…
Up first, Recent Activity feed…
- Jason
What's Steepster all about?
There are two basic philosophies behind Steepster… 1) People want to keep track of the teas they’re drinking.
Using our tealog format, people can easily make a tea-blog without the fuss of an actual standalone blog. This detailed journaling helps you and Steepster generate tea recommendations that fit your tastes.
2) People want to discover new teas from people they know and trust.
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Welcome to Steepster, The Blog!
What you’ll get here:
Cheers and welcome to the Steepster blog! We’re excited to see the site continue to grow and we thought this would be an awesome place to talk about Steepster going-ons. We’ll use this forum to discuss everything Steepster as well as share some info about us and our many tea related musings. Check here for more detailed information about the reasons for...
