We’ve been doing a spring clean of some parts of the Protopage interface. This is part of an ongoing process to keep evolving Protopage. Our codebase is complex, so it’s possible we may have accidentally introduced bugs or visual glitches, so please contact us if you’ve noticed that anything that isn’t quite right. Thanks!
We’re now in the age of AI, which means you only need to know plain English in order to be a programmer. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create your own widget that lets you convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Here is the end result: To create this, we first signed up for […]
Update: July 27, 2023: Twitter have changed the way that their widgets work. You will only see the latest tweets inside the widget if you are also logged in to Twitter in the same web browser. If you are not logged in to Twitter, you will see only the most-liked tweets of a particular user […]
When you’re picking a color scheme (from the “Colors / Settings” button at the top of your Protopage), a new type of color picker is now available. If the “Restrict to harmonious colors” option is not ticked, then you will be able to choose any possible color. This gives you the freedom to pick bright […]
When you create a news feed widget for your Protopage (via the Add Widgets button), sometimes you may find that the headlines are not the ones you were expecting to see. This will often happen when there is a site-wide news feed available, but you just want the headlines from a certain page within a […]
If you have installed any ‘browser extensions’ or ‘add-ons’, these can interfere with all web pages that you load in your web browser. If your Protopage ever does not load properly, try disabling each extension or add-on to discover which one is interfering with the loading of your Protopage. Even if the extensions were working […]
We’ve been busy all year making dozens of improvements to Protopage, many of which are compatibility, security and performance related. This ensures Protopage always works with the latest browser updates, and that our servers are always running smoothly. In particular, we’re continually working on our news feed indexing platform to make sure that we can […]
It’s always been possible to configure the list of search buttons available on your Protopage’s search bar. We’ve now made it easier for you to add your own search buttons, which only return Google search results from a particular web site. For example, in the screenshot above you can see custom search buttons that return […]
We’ve been listening to your suggestions, and have released three new widgets: 1. A YouTube widget, which makes it easy for you to embed a YouTube video into your Protopage 2. A market indices widget. We use a third party provider for our stock price widgets, because licensing the data feeds ourselves would be prohibitively […]
A few people have recently asked about our backup procedures, to ensure that the contents of their Protopages are safe. We have a dual layer backup mechanism in place. Firstly, we have continuous live backups of the Protopage databases through a process called ‘replication’. This means that if the main Protopage servers were to suddenly […]
