A request. I know you weren’t able to do the “recent comments” thing I asked about, showing us which comments we’d read in that browser session (e.b., live links all in blue; read in red or purple, unread in bright blue), but how about putting the title of the CURRENT post–the cover upon which one sits–in the center bottom, between “previous” and “next”?
I know this sounds dumb, but I work my way through the Recent Comments pile, rather than starting at the home page and working back through the covers. That means that I see a comment on the right, click it; then maybe I comment, too, or maybe I don’t and when I go BACK to the recent comments list, half the time I have to scroll all the way back UP the page, to see what damned cover I just commented upon, because honestly, I don’t store that data in my head. The right column has a tag cloud that uses up a huge, HUGE chunk of that panel, then the “top Posts and Pages” widget and THEN, well after the bottom of the current cover/post, the Recent comments. I’m constantly, constantly scrolling UP from that section.
Maybe nobody else reads this site that way, but I do and ever since this format change, with all due respect, it’s incredibly annoying. If you even JUST added the title of the current post, somewhere–anywhere–it would be very, very helpful, as I have to try to remember where the hell I am, who I’ve read, who I haven’t, in the “Recent comments” pile.
There aren’t an awful lot of customization options that come with the theme, and whenever I try to make changes to the templates I mess everything up about five times for everything I get right. (Oh, yes, I have learned the wisdom of a backup copy. Yes indeed.) I’ll see what I can do.
Well…not to get all preachy, but maybe that’s the problem? The theme? Perhaps that means you need a new one?
I realize that you have a sh*t-ton of data here, between images and comments and the commenting volume has, I’m reasonably certain, gone way up since the addition of the much-longer recent comments pane/widget. Okay, groovy.
But there are a bazillion templates/themes out there for WP and I know damned well that I see many with the very simple “you’ve visited this link in this session” coloring for links without much ado.
I really don’t mean to kvetch, but I doubt I’m alone in the “this is bloody inconvenient to navigate” territory.
Presumably, you do keep a duplicate, dummy site on the server, buried down a bit? With a no-follow on it? For experimentation? (I do, FWIW, for the same reasons you mention–my superpower is screwing up my site…)
I’m throwing all this stuff out as a “thinking aloud” kind of design charrette. Feel free to kick me in the ass.
I had that trouble, too, when the vax started wearing off, but it went away after a couple of months. Now I’m back to normal. I know where I am but can’t remember why I’m there.
Oh, yeah … when I want to read the comments, I just right click the links to open them in a new tab, then close the tab and go right back to where I was. It’s kind of like juggling chainsaws with a mouse.
Holy Sweet Moses on a Pony. 165K words? Dang.
Nathan:
A request. I know you weren’t able to do the “recent comments” thing I asked about, showing us which comments we’d read in that browser session (e.b., live links all in blue; read in red or purple, unread in bright blue), but how about putting the title of the CURRENT post–the cover upon which one sits–in the center bottom, between “previous” and “next”?
I know this sounds dumb, but I work my way through the Recent Comments pile, rather than starting at the home page and working back through the covers. That means that I see a comment on the right, click it; then maybe I comment, too, or maybe I don’t and when I go BACK to the recent comments list, half the time I have to scroll all the way back UP the page, to see what damned cover I just commented upon, because honestly, I don’t store that data in my head. The right column has a tag cloud that uses up a huge, HUGE chunk of that panel, then the “top Posts and Pages” widget and THEN, well after the bottom of the current cover/post, the Recent comments. I’m constantly, constantly scrolling UP from that section.
Maybe nobody else reads this site that way, but I do and ever since this format change, with all due respect, it’s incredibly annoying. If you even JUST added the title of the current post, somewhere–anywhere–it would be very, very helpful, as I have to try to remember where the hell I am, who I’ve read, who I haven’t, in the “Recent comments” pile.
TY and sorry for sounding bloody cranky.
There aren’t an awful lot of customization options that come with the theme, and whenever I try to make changes to the templates I mess everything up about five times for everything I get right. (Oh, yes, I have learned the wisdom of a backup copy. Yes indeed.) I’ll see what I can do.
Well…not to get all preachy, but maybe that’s the problem? The theme? Perhaps that means you need a new one?
I realize that you have a sh*t-ton of data here, between images and comments and the commenting volume has, I’m reasonably certain, gone way up since the addition of the much-longer recent comments pane/widget. Okay, groovy.
But there are a bazillion templates/themes out there for WP and I know damned well that I see many with the very simple “you’ve visited this link in this session” coloring for links without much ado.
I really don’t mean to kvetch, but I doubt I’m alone in the “this is bloody inconvenient to navigate” territory.
Presumably, you do keep a duplicate, dummy site on the server, buried down a bit? With a no-follow on it? For experimentation? (I do, FWIW, for the same reasons you mention–my superpower is screwing up my site…)
I’m throwing all this stuff out as a “thinking aloud” kind of design charrette. Feel free to kick me in the ass.
> I have to try to remember where the hell I am
I had that trouble, too, when the vax started wearing off, but it went away after a couple of months. Now I’m back to normal. I know where I am but can’t remember why I’m there.
Oh, yeah … when I want to read the comments, I just right click the links to open them in a new tab, then close the tab and go right back to where I was. It’s kind of like juggling chainsaws with a mouse.