Have your say!
12/06/2007 Filed in: Other
As you have
certainly noticed, I have been experimenting various
layouts and presentations for this blog. Basically, I’m
looking for something minimalist, elegant and yet
powerful enough to allow readers to browse contents
easily, in a way that adapts to their needs, rather
than them having to adapt to the way the blog is
structured.
One noticeable consequence of this tinkering has been an increase in the number of hits from search engines, Google and Yahoo. The audience of this blog is gently increasing, and a number of readers are returning, which is a good thing indeed!
Currently, there are three ways for the reader, that would be you, to browse the contents of this blog:
- categories: these are “Church Fathers”, “Symbolism”, etc. that are listed in the top section of the sidebar, on the right of this page.
- by date: although usually of little significance for the topics I cover in this blog, each post gets a time stamp that allows you to group posts by date. This may be useful if you wanted to see the evolution of the topics I cover over time...
- tags: this is a new feature of this blog. Each post gets several tags, or keywords, that reflect the contents of the post. Several posts cover the same topics with different angles, e.g. “Reintegration”, and this overlap is reflected by the relative size of each tag in what is called a “tag cloud”, which you can see on the bottom of the sidebar.
Click around, experiment, and let me know how it feels in the comments.
I have also chosen to give the blog a different feel from the rest of the website, in order to reflect the different style and content it offers.
Additionally, and this is an important aspect for me, I want to create a very comfortable environment for the reader, with a pleasant layout that makes you want to come back and read more...
Lastly, and most importantly, I aim to develop a network of related posts that give a variety of sources that treat of the same topic, reintegration of course, and the ways that it impacts our lives.
On all these points, your feedback will influence the evolution of this blog, regarding both format and content. If there are things you think I should cover that I haven’t, or things that I should be doing differently, feel free to leave your comments in the comment section or by email. I will give them my most open-minded consideration ;-)
I still am not entirely satisfied with the present system—can one ever be?—and one likely change ahead will be the hosting of the website on a better server than the current one. That transition, hopefully, should go unnoticed by the readers in most cases...
Remember that you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog so you can be sure never to miss a single post, without having to come back to the web page every day... There are plenty free RSS readers around for both Mac (I use NewsFire, but can recommend Vienna as a free alternative) and Windows.
One noticeable consequence of this tinkering has been an increase in the number of hits from search engines, Google and Yahoo. The audience of this blog is gently increasing, and a number of readers are returning, which is a good thing indeed!
Currently, there are three ways for the reader, that would be you, to browse the contents of this blog:
- categories: these are “Church Fathers”, “Symbolism”, etc. that are listed in the top section of the sidebar, on the right of this page.
- by date: although usually of little significance for the topics I cover in this blog, each post gets a time stamp that allows you to group posts by date. This may be useful if you wanted to see the evolution of the topics I cover over time...
- tags: this is a new feature of this blog. Each post gets several tags, or keywords, that reflect the contents of the post. Several posts cover the same topics with different angles, e.g. “Reintegration”, and this overlap is reflected by the relative size of each tag in what is called a “tag cloud”, which you can see on the bottom of the sidebar.
Click around, experiment, and let me know how it feels in the comments.
I have also chosen to give the blog a different feel from the rest of the website, in order to reflect the different style and content it offers.
Additionally, and this is an important aspect for me, I want to create a very comfortable environment for the reader, with a pleasant layout that makes you want to come back and read more...
Lastly, and most importantly, I aim to develop a network of related posts that give a variety of sources that treat of the same topic, reintegration of course, and the ways that it impacts our lives.
On all these points, your feedback will influence the evolution of this blog, regarding both format and content. If there are things you think I should cover that I haven’t, or things that I should be doing differently, feel free to leave your comments in the comment section or by email. I will give them my most open-minded consideration ;-)
I still am not entirely satisfied with the present system—can one ever be?—and one likely change ahead will be the hosting of the website on a better server than the current one. That transition, hopefully, should go unnoticed by the readers in most cases...
Remember that you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog so you can be sure never to miss a single post, without having to come back to the web page every day... There are plenty free RSS readers around for both Mac (I use NewsFire, but can recommend Vienna as a free alternative) and Windows.