For almost twenty years, NewEnigma has quietly evolved.What began back in 2006 as a place to catalogue the weekly New Scientist Enigma puzzles gradually grew into something much bigger. Along the way I added films, TV shows, albums, books, music tracking, blog posts, user…
The website has under gone a few changes recently making it much more useable on mobile and tablet devices. Any screen sizes less than 960 pixels wide should pick up the changes, as long as they support CSS media queries. This should be all the latest browsers on phones and…
This post is just to give an update on a few site enhancements that have been made recently. Site has been moved to a much more powerful server, so should be faster. Searching using the search form at the top of each page in the header has autocomplete on it. It will search as…
Pagination has finally been implemented on the enigma question responses. This was one of the last sections that needed it doing. It is different to other sections in that by default, the last page of responses should be shown rather than the first page. So if there are 50…
I have been working on a new design/layout for the site and below is a preview of what it may end up looking like. It's not finished yet and there is a possibility it may end up looking nothing like the preview, but for now this is what the preview looks like. The page shown in…
A recent comment posted in a response to an enigma question mentioned information on how to post images in the response. This particular response mentioned that only .jpeg images seemed to be allowed. I was pretty sure that .gif images were also allowed, so I went and checked…
It is now possible to receive any site updates by following my account on Twitter. The following are currenty being added to Twitter automatically: New enigma question posted New movie added New album added New TV show added
It is now possible to browse the enigma questions alphabetically by title, and by enigma author.To browse by title, go to Enigma Browse and then click on any of the links from A to Z.To view all enigma questions by a particular author, you can click on the author name on either…
I had been planning to implement pagination quite a long time ago, almost since the site began. Over the weekend I managed to sit down and implement it. It's almost completed now and being used in almost all the places it is required. The only part where it is still required is…
Here is another last post of the year! Haven't done many posts this year so thought I'd do one now. Need to check that adding a new post actually still works! The site seems to be running pretty smoothly and quickly. There hasn't been anything added to the error logs in quite a…