Testing
Testing a new theme and new methods of doing things over here. Sorry I haven’t been around for a bit. I promise that will change shortly.
Just a few things as I’m trying to sort this new layout out:
- Planning on narrowing down my post topics so I’m not so all over the place.
- Want to get category thumbs up below the header.
- Any feedback is welcome. Help is appreciated.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I’ve found people rarely traverse through the Archives and Categories sections, i would replace with Random Posts / Popular Posts etc ….. new visitors will want to see something popular …. long term visitors don’t need to look through the archives cause they would have seen it first time round. Just some observations i’ve found over the last 12 months anyway …. you might have seen otherwise.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I’ve been looking around and have seen a lot of “popular posts” on sidebars, and it does make a lot of sense to have it there.
Thanks for the suggestion Neil, I’ll get on it!
Also, I think I’ve finally managed to get my images working on Danny’s site again. I overlooked something really stupid that caused the pictures to not be thumbed.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:07 am
looks like its showing up on otaku.fm.
What was the original problem - I have not done anything on my side.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I agree with Neil, at least get rid of the archives section, it’s easier to use the search function to find what you’re looking for. I do however think you should save the categories section. I’m gonna update my sidebars soon too, I think I’ll add top commentators, popular posts and some more.
I realized one thing though, what does the “P” in the favicon stand for? Maybe it’s the default favicon…?
June 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Danny: Maybe this is a complete amateur’s mistake… but when I pasted the feed to the category on otaku.fm I just pasted it as /feed. I checked my rss checked others rss as well and realized that mine did not even display images. I then determined that was the issue and looked into it. I changed the link on your site to /feed/atom and tested, and it worked. Man, I’m sucha noob! haha. Thanks for always replying quickly via email =)
Sano: Thanks Sano. I really like your site layout so I’d definitely take your advice. I honestly wish we could get together and just discuss some stuff about your layout and traffic etc, but I don’t think that is possible haha. And yeah, I just realized that stupid “P”… so I’m gunna have to change that. =/
June 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
category thumbnails is good. people tend to pay more attention to pictures than words.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Yeah I noticed that about your site and a few others, Gordon. Seems to me like it works well cause I sure like using them =)
June 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thanks a lot Cruxay! A get together would be great, all the bloggers in our little network should have a meetup in Japan sometime