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Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

webomatica — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:44:43 -0000

Okay, good to hear. Thanks for offering suggestions. I'm pleased that it was all constructive and stuff that is straightfoward to do - plus I'm learning more about WordPress in the process.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

tunequest — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:07:24 -0000

Yeah, the "Read More + word count" definitely helps. Makes the front page seem more like an index/launching point, making the recent stuff easier to scan. And that's good; before, if I didn't subscribe to your feed, I'd have missed half your posts.

Good stuff.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

webomatica — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:36:39 -0000

Okay - got a "read more" plus a word count thingie courtesy a plug in.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

webomatica — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:18:50 -0000

Gee, so many useful comments - good thing WordPress is easy to tweak. Is a plug in needed for a word count, or is that something callable by a WordPress tag? Ill look into it.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:16:19 -0000

Putting a word count before the more would be good as well.

This is essentially what I do with posts that fall off the front page:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/page/3/

Making the read more obnoxiously big helped as well.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

webomatica — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:49:20 -0000

Hi Char... good point. I'm sure there's a way to add that.

Otherwise, people may think my posts consist of 1 paragraph apiace :)

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

Char — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:44:28 -0000

Hey! I like it, but I have one little note. It is not intuitively obvious how to get to the rest of the story. Some blogs use the word "More..." or some variation of that. It wasn't until I clicked on the post name that I realized that there really was more.

Otherwise - I really like it.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

webomatica — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:58:08 -0000

yeah I'm kind of intrigued by it. I think the thing I need to add is a previous / next post button on the single post view.

Re: Trying A Different Front Page Design

flammable — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:52:16 -0000

I was skeptical, but that looks pretty good, actually.