I have taken an all-day coding/working the website day. The result ended up in a few small changes and some addings to the site to improve the experiencing of the visit, and hopefully make more people to come back more regularly too!
- improved the look of the front page
- changed the related post links so it now shows thumbnails too
- screenshots/related pictures (for future articles)
- and last, but not least, subscribing to comments on posts
Front page
The front page hasn’t exactly been the harmony of design in quite some time, but I think I really made an improvement there. It’s now more like the articles, and seems generally more finished.
Related posts
I’ve changed the plugin to show related posts. Before it was just some dull links, now it shows thumbnail, title and the first couple lines from the article, making it more tempting to check out related articles. This cuts it down from 10 related posts to 4, but I don’t think it matters.
Screenshots
I’ve decided to add screenshots gallery to the articles, this will mainly be used for reviews, but if there’s some related pictures for the article, I would certainly make use of it. This wont be implemented in old articles though, but will be added for future articles.
Subscribing to comments
Now to the most fun addition (I think). When you’re commenting, you can now subscribe yourself to the comments! You can even manage on which posts you wish to get updates about comments on. This will encourage in more dialogues in commenting, making this site more active. When I think there’s activity enough, I will consider making a forum.
Now, one last thing to tell you about before I’m finishing this newspost up… Gravatars!
You might have noticed the avatars in comments. I’m using Spirit of Cimarron (I love his expression on that picture), and for the standard, there’s a selection of some funny geometric faces. To make your own gravatar, click on one of the gravatars (globally recognized avatars) or this link. Then sign up with the e-mail account you want, preferrably your primary one (the site can be trusted, no spam or repeating messages at all). When you have finished the subscription on the site, and made your gravatar, you can make use if it right away. All you have to do is write the e-mail you use for the gravatar, in the proper field when you post your comment, and your gravatar will automaticly show at your comment. Try it out!
Always improving!
I have taken an all-day coding/working the website day. The result ended up in a few small changes and some addings to the site to improve the experiencing of the visit, and hopefully make more people to come back more regularly too!
- improved the look of the front page
- changed the related post links so it now shows thumbnails too
- screenshots/related pictures (for future articles)
- and last, but not least, subscribing to comments on posts
The front page hasn’t exactly been the harmony of design in quite some time, but I think I really made an improvement there. It’s now more like the articles, and seems generally more finished.
I’ve changed the plugin to show related posts. Before it was just some dull links, now it shows thumbnail, title and the first couple lines from the article, making it more tempting to check out related articles. This cuts it down from 10 related posts to 4, but I don’t think it matters.
I’ve decided to add screenshots gallery to the articles, this will mainly be used for reviews, but if there’s some related pictures for the article, I would certainly make use of it. This wont be implemented in old articles though, but will be added for future articles.
Now to the most fun addition (I think). When you’re commenting, you can now subscribe yourself to the comments! You can even manage on which posts you wish to get updates about comments on. This will encourage in more dialogues in commenting, making this site more active. When I think there’s activity enough, I will consider making a forum.
Now, one last thing to tell you about before I’m finishing this newspost up…
You might have noticed the avatars in comments. I’m using Spirit of Cimarron (I love his expression on that picture), and for the standard, there’s a selection of some funny geometric faces. To make your own gravatar, click on one of the gravatars (globally recognized avatars) or this link. Then sign up with the e-mail account you want, preferrably your primary one (the site can be trusted, no spam or repeating messages at all). When you have finished the subscription on the site, and made your gravatar, you can make use if it right away. All you have to do is write the e-mail you use for the gravatar, in the proper field when you post your comment, and your gravatar will automaticly show at your comment. Try it out!
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