Fixes and new features, by request

In addition to all the kind compliments, we received a lot of great suggestions for improving (and fixing) the site. The really big ideas we will save for our big launch of Phase 2 on January 1, 2009. But there were a couple fixes that certainly couldn't wait:

• Uploading photographs to talent profiles wasn't working because the photos were getting uploaded to the old site, duh! That's fixed now.
• Clicking on a banner advertisement from the Classified Ad listing was pooping up a big ugly error. Eesh, bad for business. That's fixed too.

Also, we received some brilliant suggestions that were pretty easy to implement here in Phase 1:

• Talent profiles weren't displaying many of the most interesting attributes of people like their design skills, union memberships, and eye color. (Eye color? Wait, who uses that?) Anyway, now the talent profiles display all the attributes that artists have chosen to provide. Thanks to Sarah Gioia for that one.
• From our Home page, we added a nice simple link to just go directly to browsing all of the active classified ads. Ariel Dumas thought of that.

And, as soon as we get a bit caught up, here are a few little things we will add:

• In addition to listing unions that people are members of, we'll add a place where artists can list affiliations like the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights' Center. Michael Donley's two cents.
• And speaking of unions, we'll be adding the American Federation of Musicians as one of the unions artists can select. Thanks Kyle Clausen
• And of course, of course, we'll add Dramaturgs to our Writer types in the backstage area of talent profiles. My gosh, how could we forget dramaturgs? Michael Dixon was on top of that.

Got suggestions of your own? Send them to us right now. Thanks everyone for caring enough to critique!