Product and UX changes for ToolApp, newest first.
2026-07-25
- Bead pattern generator: turn images into perler / fuse-bead patterns in the browser (sampling + color limit), with grid/hole preview, palette stats, and PNG export —
/imagetools/beadpattern - Image pixelate: mosaic / pixel-art effect locally in the browser; adjustable block size and PNG download —
/imagetools/imagepixelate - Leaner pages: removed duplicate bottom SEO intro blocks from Home, Mini Program, About, and Donation; kept page body and tool lists
2026-07-14
- Tool docs as Markdown: interactive tool footers load
Content/**/*.md(sameDescription+ Markdig pipeline as the regex tester) for easier maintenance and better SEO / GEO; removed duplicate short blurbs - Site-wide SEO / GEO: bilingual titles, descriptions, keywords, full sitemap paths, FAQ/HowTo structured data, and
llms.txt; home title fallback fixed - Image format convert: browser-local PNG / JPEG / WebP / BMP / ICO conversion—no server upload
- Layout: removed the home four-card benefits block; doc column width aligned with the tool column; Markdown headings left-aligned again
- Bilingual docs: footer Markdown supports
.en.md, switching with UI language (falls back to Chinese)
2026-06-16
- Unified tool layout: text, convert, encode, generate, query, reference, and productivity pages use
it-hero+it-studio;Descriptionenhanced for reference and About / Donation / Mini Program pages - Image tool UX: compress, resize, HD, OCR, background remove, and merge show controls after upload; merge preview and checkerboard improved
- IP lookup: switched to
ipwho.isJSON; auto public IP on local/LAN; reverse-proxy forwarded headers enabled - URL checker: single-row toolbar with aligned inputs, checkboxes, and buttons
- Home icons: redrawn SVG icons for resize, compress, HD, merge, article format, URL check, ASCII, etc.
- BackImg cover tool: home and editor styling aligned with ToolApp green theme
- Image format convert: new PNG / JPEG / WebP / BMP / ICO convert tool
- SEO basics: site-level canonical / Open Graph, default structured data, sitemap / robots
2026-05-19
- Home redesign with categorized tools and clearer copy
- Image OCR: Windows Tesseract native load fix; confidence filtering and scoring to reduce garbage output
- Handwritten signature: full-width canvas; standard bordered text inputs; button styles aligned
- Background remove / OCR: clearer primary Bootstrap actions
- Article CJK–English formatting: auto spacing and full/half-width normalization
- Word count: Chinese encoding fix
- Pomodoro: rebuilt UI and timer logic
- Shared tool-page stylesheet for forms, buttons, and sections
- Landing page at
/landing/index.htmlfor campaigns
2024-06-03
- Chinese / English localization
2023-08-26
- More reference tables
- Markdig for Markdown rendering
- Some tools moved to Blazor components
2021-09-20
- MVP launch