The Can You Name? Blog
Keeping you up to date with the latest developments on Can You Name?
Thu 6 November 2008
01:14pm
If you have a site or blog and want to create your own Can You Name? quiz for your visitors to play on, now you can very easily using our new Can You Name? Creator. We have just this moment made the creator live and ready for testing by the public. This is still in beta mode so please tell us if you use it and have any bugs or problems by using our contact form.
We hope that this will allow all you webmasters to easily create a quiz. Our Can You Name? quizzes can really help to drive visitors to your site and also give your visitors that something extra to do on your site. So get creating....
We hope that this will allow all you webmasters to easily create a quiz. Our Can You Name? quizzes can really help to drive visitors to your site and also give your visitors that something extra to do on your site. So get creating....
Thu 30 October 2008
12:38pm
We have recently updated with some new features for you. The system is live and there may be small bugs which we have to iron out but it is working and this post is letting you know about our new features which we have implemented.
Each Can You Name stores the score of everyone who plays which means that we can show an average score for each game, the averages update every 12 hours at the moment for non-logged in users. We have also added some nice average progress bars showing the average of everyone who has played that game and also you percentage of answers named. Here's a pic showing the new addition...
This should make it more fun as you can always try to be above average for each game now as you are playing against others and not just yourself. We hope you like this
On some Can You Names you have to press enter after each answer is entered and this was apparently confusing some people who are used to auto answering system. We need you to press enter on these games due to similarities in answers. To avoid confusion we have added an extra message to each of these games directly above the input box. Like so...
Logged in users now have auto-saving feature which will save your scores automatically to your saved scores page. Don't worry as it will only save if your score is higher than any previously saved scores for that game. So there is no need to click on the Save Your Score button anymore.
As we have said earlier in the post. we are testing these updates at the moment so if you come across a problems please contact us and tell us so we can remove any bugs.
Each Can You Name stores the score of everyone who plays which means that we can show an average score for each game, the averages update every 12 hours at the moment for non-logged in users. We have also added some nice average progress bars showing the average of everyone who has played that game and also you percentage of answers named. Here's a pic showing the new addition...
This should make it more fun as you can always try to be above average for each game now as you are playing against others and not just yourself. We hope you like this
On some Can You Names you have to press enter after each answer is entered and this was apparently confusing some people who are used to auto answering system. We need you to press enter on these games due to similarities in answers. To avoid confusion we have added an extra message to each of these games directly above the input box. Like so...
Logged in users now have auto-saving feature which will save your scores automatically to your saved scores page. Don't worry as it will only save if your score is higher than any previously saved scores for that game. So there is no need to click on the Save Your Score button anymore.
As we have said earlier in the post. we are testing these updates at the moment so if you come across a problems please contact us and tell us so we can remove any bugs.
Sun 26 October 2008
01:18pm
Can You Name is now 5 weeks old and going strong. We have increased visitors dramatically and at this time of writing have 52 topics for you to get naming. That's about 10 a week and we are going to attempt to increase to about 20 a week.
We are still on the look out for some sites to exchange links with. If you have a high quality site with a gaming, quiz, fun, entertainment theme which would be of interest to our visitors then contact me. We have two areas for link exhcange, in the "Our Friends" box in the right hand menu which is site wide and a links page. Links back to us will have to be of a similar nature (site-wide or a links page) for us to accept you.
Now we have a good amount of topics for you to name, we have updated the main page to a easy to use page featuring the latest, currently in the news, most popular and our favourite can you name quizzes. The old page has now been changed into a latest section. We have also added an Add This button on each game and your saved score pages to make it easier for you to share games and scores with your friends and family. We have also created a better help page, fixed a small bug with the game to do with numbers.
Are you a Twitter User? We now have our own Twitter account and we Twitter every time there is a new game on Can You Name? So if you are a Twitter user why not follow us and get the latest games on your Twitter feeds.
We are still on the look out for some sites to exchange links with. If you have a high quality site with a gaming, quiz, fun, entertainment theme which would be of interest to our visitors then contact me. We have two areas for link exhcange, in the "Our Friends" box in the right hand menu which is site wide and a links page. Links back to us will have to be of a similar nature (site-wide or a links page) for us to accept you.
Now we have a good amount of topics for you to name, we have updated the main page to a easy to use page featuring the latest, currently in the news, most popular and our favourite can you name quizzes. The old page has now been changed into a latest section. We have also added an Add This button on each game and your saved score pages to make it easier for you to share games and scores with your friends and family. We have also created a better help page, fixed a small bug with the game to do with numbers.
Are you a Twitter User? We now have our own Twitter account and we Twitter every time there is a new game on Can You Name? So if you are a Twitter user why not follow us and get the latest games on your Twitter feeds.
Sun 28 September 2008
05:23pm
We have just this minute launch a simple score saving feature so you can save your best score for each and every Can You Name? quiz. By signing up for a Can You Name? account you can now comment, vote and save your scores. After completing a quiz just click on the "Save Your Score" button below the game and your score will be saved. You can see all your achieved scores by going to "Your Profile" at the top and then clicking on "See Your Scores".
We want to improve this system to make it better but felt that by introducing it now it will give you the opportunity to start saving those great and hard worked for scores. If you find any problems please Contact Us and tell us the problem you are having. We hope you enjoy saving your scores.
We want to improve this system to make it better but felt that by introducing it now it will give you the opportunity to start saving those great and hard worked for scores. If you find any problems please Contact Us and tell us the problem you are having. We hope you enjoy saving your scores.
Sun 28 September 2008
05:08pm
We created this blog as an addition to Can You Name? To keep you up to date with the latest updates, new features and more. Since launching only a few days ago we have a good amount of visitors and we hope you are enjoying our quizzes. We are working on lots of new features which will be coming over the next few months and will also be creating new Can You Name? quizzes everyday.
At the moment we are still in beta testing stage so if you do find a problem please contact us and we will try to remedy the problem. We hope you enjoy Can You Name? and have lots of naming fun.
At the moment we are still in beta testing stage so if you do find a problem please contact us and we will try to remedy the problem. We hope you enjoy Can You Name? and have lots of naming fun.

