We’ve been working hard recently and this is one of our larger projects. Why a new design? To make things easier for us to get things updated and launched and to make getting information and support easier for everyone else to obtain.

We’re still making minor tweaks to the site here and there, so please let us know if you find any typos or errors on the site and we’ll work diligently to get them patched up.

We have been making a lot of changes in the backend programming of our gadgets to figure stuff out like how to make the data more accessible, how to get the sidebar to not lock up, and how to get the gadgets to work in UAC lockdown.  Additionally though we put a data folder into the documents folder for each user of our gadgets.

This folder is harmless though it doesn’t go away if the gadget is active because we are storing data in there as you use the gadget.  The data is in an XML format and can be read plainly so you know we’re not hiding anything illicit in there.

It has since been brought to our attention that putting the folder in the Documents folder would be considered unacceptable to some people, so we figured we would ask you all where it should go.  Keep in mind that the really big guiding idea here is that the data must be easily accessible.  That’s why we took it out of the gadget folder to begin with.  Easy data access allows for backups, recovery, deleting, and grabbing debug information that some users may need to get.

To that end, we have a poll up, please let us know what you are all comfortable with.  Thanks. 

Edit: It looks like the AppData directory has won. So from now on, the plan is to have all of our external gadget data in the AppData/Local/BuildAGadget Content directory. Thanks for voting everyone!

Hey everyone, we just completed work on a new version of the website.  It’s still a work in progress in some parts, so we’ll be tweaking many things as we go along.  If you spot any typos, please let us know and we’ll correct them asap.  Here’s a list of the major changes:

• New layout
• Redesigned project pages (now standalone pages)
• Site search (via Google Custom search)
• Redesigned support section
• Redesigned contact form
• Less version numbers to worry about
• Better page usability and larger font sizes
• New developer section (still very much under construction)

Overall, we hope this new design helps out some people and that everyone enjoys a new cleaner layout. 

If you see anything really weird happen for the next few hours or so, we’re upgrading the blog to the latest version of Wordpress.

Blog has been upgraded.

We made Gold Partner on the Live.com Gallery – now the pressure is really on to keep building good gadgets.   

As far as we know, we are also the first Gold partner on the gallery, so it’s pretty easy to find our gadgets.  Stay tuned, we’ve got more fun stuff coming!

Our Live.com Gallery Profile