500 Foods Blog

Rocket.Chat has been added to the 500 Foods website today, implementing the new 500 Foods Live Chat service. Live Chats can be started using the chat bubble icon appearing in the bottom-right corner of the website. This rounds out the suite of communications and contact tools available via the website.

Initially, 500 Foods Live Chat hours have been set to 8am to 8pm PST, seven days a week. As the site currently receives very little traffic, this isn't likely to be an issue. Will adjust going forward if needed.

After today's remarkable 10% gain by Apple, I thought it would be good to add some highlighting to the main Watchlist block on the home page. 

• Green highlights indicate a stock that has more than a 5% gain.
• Red highlights indicate a stock that has more than a 5% loss.

If you'd like some other highlighting options, just let us know.

The content sections of the website have been updated with a new Filter+Sort option which can be accessed using the icon appearing at the top-right header in each of these sections.

Date Filters are available to show posts or stories in a particular period of time, such as the Past 7 Days or This Year, for example.

A new feature of the website, accessible only to those visitors with an account, is the ability to bookmark content found in most sections of the website. 

A new feature has been added to the 500 Foods website that allows visitors (anonymous or otherwise) to rate or "star" content on the site.  A rating of 1-5 stars can be assigned to posts in our own Container Culture, Better Than Organic and News from Here blogs as well as the stories collected in the News from Elsewhere section.  Users with an account can also rate content in the Product Updates section.

Some additions to the 500 Foods Watchlist. 

As part of the continuing roll-out of new features for the 500 Foods website, the search function has been revamped and improved. 

One of the biggest changes to web design, likely since its inception, is the need for 'responsive design' - a fancy term that just means that a website has to be both functional and presentable on a wide array of device resolutions and orientations, ideally without regard to vendor or other device-specific settings.  Basically a website designed in this way should look and work great on a phone, a tablet or a desktop screen, and nothing should be lost when moving between these formats.  Sounds simple, right?

A brand new feature of the website is the Watchlist - a list of publicly traded companies and a brief snapshot of their stock situation. 

We now accept credit card payments for our invoices.