@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@ <div id="info_content"> -<h1>What is RubyURL?</h1> + <h1>What is RubyURL?</h1> -<p>In a nutshell, RubyURL is an online tool for converting really long website addresses into short ones.</p> + <p>In a nutshell, RubyURL is an online tool for converting really long website addresses into short ones so that you can share them with your friends via Twitter, IRC, Email, Campfire, etc. We've also provided a public API so that you can generate RubyURLs in your web applications.</p> -<p>Beyond that, RubyURL was the first project that Robby Russell (<%= link_to 'robbyonrails', 'http://www.robbyonrails.com/' -%>) built and deployed with the Ruby on Rails framework in early 2005. It's been running strong since then and until recently, was still running off of that original code base.</p> - -<p>During the summer of 2007, Robby teamed up with <a href="http://chrisgriffin.org/">Chris Griffin</a>, Interface Designer at <a href="http://planetargon.com">Planet Argon</a>, for a complete rewrite and design of RubyURL.</p> - -<p>The RubyURL team hopes that you find this tool useful in your mailing list posts, chat conversations, and twitter entries.</p> + <p>Beyond that, RubyURL was the first project that <a href="http://planetargon.com/who-we-are/robby-russell">Robby Russell</a>, founder of <a href="http://planetargon.com/">Planet Argon</a> built and deployed with the <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> framework in early 2005. The code behind it has been open sourced and is <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl/tree/master">available on Github</a>.</p> + <p>Special thanks to <a href="http://chrisgriffin.org">Chris Griffin</a> for providing the current design of RubyURL.</p> </div>  app/views/links/about.rhtml @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ <p>© 2005-<%= Time.now.strftime('%Y') %>, RubyURL.</p> -<p>Designed and Developed by <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/" title="Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails">Planet Argon</a>. Hosted on <a href="http://railsboxcar.com/" title="Rails hosting">Boxcar</a>.</p> -<p><span><%= @cached_data[:link_count] -%></span> happy rubyURLs and counting. <a href="http://planetargon.lighthouseapp.com/projects/4059-rubyurl/">Bugs?</a></p> \ No newline at end of file +<p>A micro project from the <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/" title="Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails">Planet Argon</a> team. Hosted on <a href="http://railsboxcar.com/" title="Rails hosting">Boxcar</a>.</p> +<p><span><%= @cached_data[:link_count] -%></span> happy rubyURLs and counting. <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl/issues">Feature Requests / Issues?</a></p> \ No newline at end of file app/views/shared/_footer.rhtml bb78e824cdd9da06e00effcb73d9f5d043df027c Robby Russell robby@planetargon.com http://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl/commit/c82afe6ed264130c1434c2112716400254d4ceb7 c82afe6ed264130c1434c2112716400254d4ceb7

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Updating the about page copy and footer content c91c30809ac5cbe8a47966d571af8b5664e6775a Robby Russell robby@planetargon.com