Tags, Comments, Go!
Took a half hour today to revise some of the category and tag management on this old blog, and moved comments around so that maybe they’re within easier striking distance near the end of posts. I’ve been told by prolific web users and knowledgeable designers that expecting people to scroll back up to the top of a post to comment is unrealistic, and I’m finally putting that lesson to use. (I’ve dabbled with these changes before, but have only now come up with a look and placement that I can live with.)
While writing this, Pandora has given me Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.” You can go with this or you can go with that, indeed.
Something I won’t be doing: going back and adding tags to the 998 (as of this writing) existing posts here on the site. Some of them were tagged in previous lifetimes on Blogger and WordPress.com, but there’s no time and little benefit to re-tagging those posts, so I’m not doing it.
As it is, I’m pretty sure I only added tags so I could make the kind of tag jokes that John Hodgman makes on his imitation blog-like device — the same sort that are common on Twitter. Totally worth it.
Yay!
And yay Flickr plugin, which I must’ve missed.
– c.
Looks good! Only thing I noticed is that the categories bump right up against the comments, so it appears as “design, geekery, the web1 comment.” (It’s a little easier to see at the bottom of your most recent Lost post: “television4 comments.”)
Does this mean you’re not seeing the little dialogue-bubble graphic that should separate the categories from the comments? Oh, dear.
I’m seeing the bubbles.
I’m seeing the bubbles and the tags. The Site looks fantastic!
Hrm. I see them on my laptop but not my desktop. It’s on my end. Apologies! (Can I plead sinus infection for not thinking to check on another machine/with another browser first? Or an invasion of rabid brain monkeys from space?)
No, Lauren, if you’re not seeing the graphics on one of your machines, it’s still something for me to worry about. Can you tell me what browser you’re using on your desktop?
Both are running Firefox 3.6 with noscript. Only difference is the desktop has Windows XP and the laptop is running Windows 7. However! I dragged my husband away from Dragon Age and (as he groks this kind of thing), he had me view the page source and the style sheet. Found the image that it’s calling and went directly to it.
When I refreshed the page, it all loaded just fine. He thinks that for some reason, the icons didn’t load into my temporary files.