Thu 25 Aug 2005
If you are an avid reader of this blog, then all 2 or 3 of you may have noticed a few recent changes. In particular, these changes are the header/logo, horizontal navigation tabs, and the sidebar navigation.
You can view “before” and “after” snapshots of this blog here.
The categories page shows a listing of all posts sorted by category and ordered by date.
The posts page shows a listing of all posts ordered by date.
The pages page shows a listing of all static pages embedded into our (dynamic) blog. We only have one such page thus far, that being the Screenshots page linked above.
The tabs may be useful in helping keep track of your location. As an example, the posts tab becomes active when viewing a single post (with or without comments). Before this feature, it was sometimes difficult to determine what type of page you were on, requiring you to scroll down and see.
The sidebar navigation has an addition of links titled “Active Threads”. This list shows the 6 most recently commented posts, with the most-recent on top. This should help us keep track of where the latest commenting activity is.
Happy blogging!
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August 28th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
Three comments in one:
-The ‘post’ tab helps a lot. As a new user, I found the switching from ‘reading’ to ‘commenting’ somehow disjoint.
-In the short lifetime of this blog, I got attached to the clean first banner; the availability of the ‘before’/'after’ comparison creates a transition point prompt/history.
-Seems an opening-up feature (educative?) to see the static page available explicitly under ‘Page’.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Mulling over the use of photos having heard about flickr: http://www.flickr.com and at
October 24th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Karen,
Interesting you discovered Flickr. Flickr is one of the hottest web-apps out there right now. It, along with del.icio.us, are the definitive examples of “Web2.0″. Flickr encourages social interaction with its use of tagging photos, similar to how users can tag webpages on del.icio.us. Flickr was recently bought(?) by Yahoo! and is becoming their backend for news photos, etc.
Unfortunately, Flickr is a fierce and direct competitor to my first and loyal moblogging platform: TextAmerica, where I had set up my camera phone moblog over 2 years ago.
Perhaps I’ll write a future post on my thoughts of Flickr vs. TextAmerica, and the more generic idea of using these existing photo-moblogging platforms as a backend to our blogs, and perhaps even our websites… like a photo gallery.
More to come here… stay tuned for a post…
–Shaun