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Just wondering, though: How is a "detailed-centric process" different from a detailed process? :-)
Best of luck to you in 2008!
nice ben.
A definite improvement !
Lucas
Good work man.
Love the new look!
Just finished reading your post on Problogger. I must say that the process is challenging. I am currently undergoing that same process on blog but I have to get a designer to do the work. One thing I have learnt over time is that people get to see your blog before getting to read what you write. So, one only has some seconds to make an impression.
Your blog design is simple and professional. Keep up the work
I am particularly impressed with the idea of delivering targeted content to the reader using the filtered category list on the sidebar, which is invoked when the user chooses to view a single post. This is a great idea and I intend to integrate it into my blog, too.
This is a beautiful, well thought out and functional blog theme design. Very nice work!
@inspirationbit: It's done via Blogroll Links. I'm not using any plugins.
The "Recent Posts" is a fairly standard bit of WP code.
The "Most Popular Posts" and "Top Categories" in the footer are hand-picked by me.
In my blogroll I have blogroll categories that match my post categories. I add links into the blogroll associated with each category and then there's a snippet of code that grabs the proper blogroll links for the appropriate categories.
Hope that helps!
I was just reading Pam's comment on excerpts and I'm curious to know what you decide after having used it for a while. I considered using when I was designing my blog, but decided not too... Yet I'm always thinking of ways to improve the flow of my blog and may reconsider. Your site loads really quick and flows well though.. which is another thing I'm working on improving for my mine.
Using excerpts has to improve the load time because you're showing less content. And lately I've been writing some much longer posts...so I think it's the right, albeit a difficult, decision to make.
Interesting that you also have stuff all the way at the bottom of your site, including a picture. That was something I didn't expect, and yet it's very pleasing to see your smiling face down at the bottom too!
All in all, great work!
I like having the picture at the top too, but that's really not much of a bio; I wanted to give people a bit more context.
Hey, no more widgets?
Great post! Thanks for inspiring me to redo the look on my own blog. The instigator blog instigated a great big layout change on my part.
Don't know why, but I'm not seeing the title header when I load your blog on Firefox. And the Recent Posts, Top Categories, etc. at the very bottom of the page threw me; I wasn't expecting that. Do you think most readers will scroll all the way to the bottom to get to that info? I did because I was looking over your entire site, but I'm not sure most first-time visitors will.
Thanks for all the good ideas!
Laura
Maybe I'm just getting soft in my old age!
I foud your site via the article on problogger, very interesting.
The site design looks great, nice and clean and crisp.
I really like the way you have integrated your RSS feed at the top, that makes it easy to spot and will be one of the first things people notice, I have subscribed :)
@Barb: Glad you found the blog, and you'll keep visiting!