Weblog entry #39 for Steve

Weblogs and Feeds?
Posted by Steve on Wed 26 Oct 2005 at 14:17
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Weblogs

Weblogs here are interesting, especially with the planet to make reading easier.

I still see two problems:

  1. On the menu-bar on the main site clicking upon a link takes you to all entries by the relevent user - not the most recent one.
    • Is that wrong? It feels wrong to me ..
  2. The sidebar entries have no titles.
    • I think I should add "title" attributes to the link to show the title of the most recent entry - but that only confuses things, see point #1
Feeds

The front page shows recent security advisories.

This I like.

However I'm wondering if that should be:

  • Optional
  • More general purpose?
    • Perhaps allow different users to add different feeds to that location?

Of course that increases complexity in some ways...

Ultimately I guess these are just minor considerations, it is the articles people come for (stay for?) and so they should be the most important thing.

I just know little tweaks sometimes make a big difference.

 

Comments on this Entry

Posted by philcore (70.161.xx.xx) on Thu 27 Oct 2005 at 00:42
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to the point of the weblogs.
yeah, it should probably link to the most recent. However, since the most recent /is/ posted at the top, the link really does take you to the most recent post. I kinda like the idea of linking directly to the recent post, not the users main blog page. I dunno, seems trivial. Site looks great to me.

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Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Thu 27 Oct 2005 at 13:17
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I've decided to make it link to the most recent (and also show the title in the link too) and I think it works out pretty well.

From an individual entry there is a link to all such entries too - so it would be possible to move around if required.

(The beta site contains this change.)

Steve
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