Change Log
15th December 2008
- Cosmetic | Improved appearance of search results
29th October 2008
- Functionality | Added new feature Upcoming Episodes
- Bugfix | Improved search speed for terms that only return a small number of results
7th October 2008
17th September 2008
- Bugfix | Fixed server error returned when a series has a very large number of episodes
27st August 2008
- Functionality | Added listings for Freesat (UK)
- Cosmetic | Moved Host/Judge and Guest credits from Production to TV/Movies section on content page
1st August 2008
16th July 2008
- Functionality | Search now finds matches in many cases where previously it returned no results
- Functionality | Can browse all TV shows, movies and people using links on homepage
- Cosmetic | Changed the style of the embeds
- Cosmetic | Made the empty My Picks help text clearer
- Security | Various improvements
25th June 2008
- Functionality | Allow shows that have just started to be listed as "Next On" for a short time
- Usability | Added features page to highlight the various features of LocateTV
- Cosmetic | Updated My Picks to have a consistent design with the rest of the site
- Bugfix | Updated Next On for people page to show series name along with episode name
- Bugfix | Fixed episode tab to allow synopsis to be clicked in IE6+
28th May 2008
- Functionality | New function bar added to people and TV/movie pages to improve consistency across the site
- Cosmetic | Improved icons on tabs
- Bugfix | Various improvements for cross-browser support and reduced page size
6th May 2008
- Bugfix | Added missing channels to some lineups
- Security | Various enhancements
- Cosmetic | Improved wording of various pages
16th April 2008
- Functionality | Channel numbers for your TV service provider now displayed on episode lists
- Bug Fix | Fixed What's On page on IE7 Vista
2nd April 2008
- Functionality | Channel numbers for your TV service provider now displayed across the site
- Usability | Search and what's on TV made accessible for non-mouse users
- Cosmetic | Styling change to tabs on what's on TV
7th March 2008
- Functionality | New feature to allow you to see what's on TV now, next and at primetime tonight
- Functionality | Channel numbers for your TV service provider now displayed in the "On TV" tab
- Functionality | You can now add LocateTV to your list of search engines in Firefox 2+ and IE7+
- Functionality | Added the "How well do you know Lost?" quiz
- Bug Fix (from feedback) | Added TV schedule from the Business Channel
- Bug Fix (from feedback) | Added missing TV show Trailer Park Boys
- Bug Fix | Fixed formatting of narrow embed when show is not on TV but is online and on DVD
- Bug Fix | Series date range now shown for people who only appear in some episodes of a series
- Usability | Next on information now states if the show/movie is not on TV in the next two weeks
21st February 2008
- Bug Fix | Updated time formatting to ensure correct handling of daylight savings
- Bug Fix | Removed repeated title that was appearing on some movie embeds
9th February 2008
- Bug Fix | Fixed bug that stopped old embeds linking back to content
- Bug Fix | Fixed bug that sometimes has blank series name on People pages
- Enhancement (from Feedback) | Increased the limit on My Picks from 10 to 24
- Usability | Text on theme pages improved to help people new to the site
- Usability | Now displays availability on TV, DVD and online on search results, theme pages and shared picks
- Performance | Further improvements to search speed
- Security | Deployed P3P Security Policy
23rd January 2008
- Bug Fix | Fixed cases where search results where not always taking into account TV service provider
- Functionality | Added TV series production date ranges to search results
- Functionality | Added quick links to people pages allowing easy navigation to each credits section
- Cosmetic | Removed anonymous head shot from people pages
10th January 2008
- Functionality | Search box added to theme pages and shared picks
- Functionality | TV Series pages now show production date ranges where episodes span more than one year (for example 2002-2007)
- Cosmetic | Links changed from green to blue (with associated style changes) to aid readability
20th December 2007
- Bug Fix | Active and inactive buttons on TV service provider and region options are more distinct
- Bug Fix | My Picks and "Add to my picks" compatibility with Safari/Mac
- Bug Fix | Tooltip distinguished between content types
- Bug Fix | Online content URLs fixed when clicking on the content row
- Bug Fix | TV service provider and region options only saved when "OK" is selected
- Functionality | TV service provider and region options reloaded from cookie if changing settings is cancelled
- Cosmetic | New graphics and layout
- Cosmetic | Custom error page added
- Cosmetic | TV service provider and region options form moved into main banner and is revealed more smoothly
- Cosmetic | TV service provider and region options better compatibility with IE7/Win
- Cosmetic | TV service provider and region options removed from static pages (about, changelog, feedback etc…)
13th December 2007
- Functionality | New feature to allow you to create your own list of favorite TV shows, movies and people
- Functionality | Ability to share your list of favorite "picks" with other people
- Cosmetic | Theme pages redesigned to be more "in style" with the rest of the site
6th December 2007
- Bugfix | Fixed problems with personalization and DVD price loading for Opera users
- Cosmetic | Various small changes to several pages
30th November 2007
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Person embeds now show correct information. These were sometimes incorrectly showing no "next on" text
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Person embeds are now delivered faster
- Usability | All URLs now changed to include the name of show or person in the link itself. Full backwards compatibility with old URLs maintained
- Usability | Now shows "Today" and "Tomorrow" for shows on in the next two days
- Usability | Alternative text added for images - for better accessibility
- Cosmetic | Cast and credit lists now reflow after synopsis, rather than always being below the image
- Cosmetic | Embeds for people no longer say "in" - this was not right for people with credits only
- Cosmetic | "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on personalization form changed to be the same size
22nd November 2007
- Bugfix | Improvements in search results when matching against alternative titles
- Bugfix | No longer get episodes shown without their parent series being present
- Usability | Many new online vendors rolled out (ABC, NBC, BBC, etc)
- Usability | More help added on the embed page to allow users to select the right embed type
- Functionality | Bulletin Board embed text option added to the select embed page
- Cosmetic | Various text changes to make the site easier for new users
9th November 2007
- Bugfix | Fixed wildcard searching when only partial names or titles were entered
- Usability | People embeds now have .GIF extensions (backwards compatibility with old embeds retained)
- Usability | Embed HTML now breaks out of frames by default plus displays tooltips in Firefox
- Cosmetic | Update various channel logos
1st November 2007
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Data fixes for South Park
- Bugfix | Fixed bugs in region selection panel
- Bugfix | Fixes for US daylight savings time
- Functionality | Dynamic tags inserted to describe page contents
- Functionality | Online content now present on episode page as well as series page
- Usability | More episode titles now hyperlinked in the "On TV" tab
- Usability | Better sorting of content on the people page for appearances in tv series
- Usability | URLs for popular shows changed to easier to remember format
- Cosmetic | Inclusion of new DVD and Online vendor images
- Cosmetic | Inclusion of some content images
- Cosmetic | Make hyperlinks underlined
- Cosmetic | Many other minor design tweaks
24th October 2007
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Searching for Terminator 2 now returns expected results
- Bugfix | Cancel button now always selectable when choosing US TV suppliers
- Bugfix | HTML image tag for embeds now uses "title" and "alt" attributes
- Bugfix | Only submit settings once from the "choose your TV supplier" settings
- Functionality | Alternate TV suppliers now offered when a US Zip code is not recognised
- Usability | Added narrow embed format to choose from on the "select embed" page
- Cosmetic | Minor tweaks to the overall tab style
17th October 2007
- Bugfix | "NEXT ON" information displayed at top of people page
11th October 2007
- Bugfix (from feedback) | $0.00 US DVD prices are no longer displayed
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Stargate Atlantis season 4 episode list populated
- Bugfix (from feedback) | The Riches and other Virgin 1 listings now added
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Californication added
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Last minute listing updates correctly displayed (Spooks and Top Gear times were incorrect)
- Functionality | Improvements to detecting a user's available channels
- Functionality | Ongoing improvements to search speed and ranking
- Cosmetic | Tab style improvements - empty tabs now hatched
- Cosmetic | Clearer display for year of release on DVD titles
- Cosmetic | Improved quality for US DVD vendor logos
- Cosmetic | More information and help on the "select embed" page
1st October 2007
- Bugfix | Correct "next on" is now shown at top of people page for credited series
- Functionality | A better search experience (coping with misspellings, etc)
- Cosmetic | New compact embed design
- Cosmetic | Updated tab design on content page
- Cosmetic | Moved episode lists up into separate tab on content page
- Cosmetic | Enhanced browser favorites icon for site
13th September 2007
- Performance | Faster search performance when search matches large numbers of titles
- Bugfix | Embeds no longer say "In" when displaying NEXT ON for a production credit
- Cosmetic | Sort order of appearances in people page now disregards insignificant words (e.g. "The")
- Cosmetic | Repeated person names in credit lists on content page are now rolled up
- Cosmetic | Tabs now stand out clearly on the content page
- Cosmetic | Confusing abbreviations Snn EPmm changed to Season nn Episode mm
- Cosmetic | Embed icon at top of content and person people replaced with more obvious image link
30th August 2007
- Bugfix | People embed images no longer contain erroneous text
- Bugfix (from feedback) | Sky channels removed from UK Virgin Media platforms
- Cosmetic | Improved image quality for DVD box thumbnails
- Cosmetic | Don't show timezone for UK/Ireland users
- Cosmetic | Don't show TV/movie/person text in bold on the search results
- Cosmetic | Missing DVD retailer logo for Amazon Jersey added
23rd August 2007
- Bugfix | Searching for Brad Pitt in UK region returned spurious incorrect results
- Bugfix | Shows without synopsis now appear in search results
- Bugfix | Searching for specific titles does not return anything but is listed in actor lists
- Bugfix | Don't show zero duration schedule events
- Bugfix | NEXT ON now shown for TV series' in person pages
- Bugfix | "v106" text no longer displays in people credits
- Bugfix | Fix for duplicate search results appearing in list
- Bugfix | Embeds now always shown in the correct geographical region
15th August 2007
- Bugfix | NEXT ON now shown for TV series' in search results
- Bugfix | Broken embed HTML text for TV episodes fixed
- Bugfix | Clicking on arrow icon on the season bar now shows/hides the season episode data
- Cosmetic | When on episode page, the series hyperlink is in correct blue style
8th August 2007
- Bugfix | Fix for "missing online content from episodes" issue
- Bugfix | Fix for IE browser crash with "operation aborted" message
- Bugfix | Home page and search results now render in FireFox without quirks mode
- Functionality | New change log page
- Usability | Cache pages for 10 minutes
- Usability | Removal of auto focus on the search input box at top of page
- Usability | Search ordering improvements. Easily find short named shows such as "ER" and "V"
- Cosmetic | 2 pixels of left padding on input boxes
- Cosmetic | Show DVD "Shipping" instead of "P&P" for US users
