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Comments discussion on "Help Us Out With Some FeedBack?"
If there is one thing I would improve about Pro Blog Design than it is to reduce the amount of lists of things and increase the amount of original content, but that's not a big complaint anyhow.
Thanks for the feedback. We really have been publishing a lot of lists recently, I'll be more careful with how many we do in future. Glad someone pointed that out, I wasn't sure if we'd gone over the top or not yet!
I'd like to see some review/comparison posts. A lot of sites have design showcases which are great for inspiration, but I'd like to see some breakdowns of what sites do right and wrong. For example, I've seen pretty and/or popular sites that don't pass validation, or have usability issues. It would be great to have an experienced person provide examples where various blog design issues are solved correctly/incorrectly.
Is that the sort of review you meant, or would it be more specific and say, focus on a particular mistake found across several websites?
Or even to take a website, highlight some flaws, and then demonstrate the entire solution?
The design is pretty good – I'd love to see more in-depth posts.
I think you're right about that. A year ago you'd barely have found a list post on the site, but now it's the other way around. Time for a redirection there perhaps!
Frequency of posting^^ It feels like the blog's updated rather rarely, in else, everything is good.
Thanks for the comment, I'll definitely work on that. I had a schedule for a few months there, but it's fallen apart over the past month or so. I guess that's showing!
I'll try to get that fixed again.
Commented with my nickname instead of my real name by habit. ^^ People always miss the second 'r' in Gargron before I point at it, orz.
A month for a blog appears far longer than for a paper magazine or other real-life stuff, so that explains why I had got that feeling.
Damn, sorry about the name! I always thought I was quite good at getting names right (Because a lot of people call me Martin instead of Michael :D ), but I guess not!
Yeah a bit more posting, the font for the post title and drop all those sidebar's links (rss, twitter…) that are already on top of the site to add more informations like "the best of pro blog design".
Thanks for the suggestions Kevin. When I first redesigned, that title font was a big issue. I'm not sure why it got sidelined in my priorities but now it's back up there again.
One thing I'd change – make the text replacement text load with the page :P.
Really enjoyed Alex Cragg's post a couple of weeks ago – more of that area – advanced WordPress development.
What about @font-face? In theory that's cross browser if you do it right, no?
I would really like to see more wordpress coding tutorials, such as cool tricks you can do within the wordpress loop.
Be proud and start a revolution! Ditch posts that start with numbers "10 amazing…," "23 rules…," or "50 logo…" It's not hard to read the same post similar elsewhere.
I think you're right about this one Liam, I've let the number of list posts go over the top lately!
Hurrah! That's a good step in the right direction. It's becoming a bit tiring to read them really, not that I disprove of them but it's nice to read those kinds of posts few and far between.
I can agree with you there. When I see a great list post, I bookmark it for future use and might come back to it when I need whatever resource its listing.
Absolutely! I think it's easy to fall into the trap of creating these "round up" posts" simply because it is easy. They almost always tend to be bookmarked, usually, that's where they stay!
Personally I don't mind if a site isn't updated in weeks if the next post has some weight to pack that punch you know. A meaty story, interesting plot twists and what have you!
Design is above average, but I would like to see more good content.
Those effects are actually being done with CSS3 (Might have to write a post about them now :D ).
Michael, I generally find the content useful when it's not over my head. I'm not a developer so I don't have high technical expectations or needs. Instead, I enjoy the list posts of 'key' elements that teach me something more about blogging and about general design principles. These posts are usually very useful.
When looking at the list of posts, if you hover over the text of the post title, the area is clickable, bit the white space between the text is not clickable!
No big deal but please Make the white space between text, in the post titles, clickable.
Will do Keith. It's a limitation of the script I'm using there, but by the sounds of it, it's time to swap to a different script!
Thanks for the reply Muqtada. I quite like the font, but I always have my eye open for new fonts and if something better turns up, I won't hesitate to replace it!
Isn't there already enough info about wordpress and photoshop available?
True, there really is a tonne of information on WordPress and Photoshop. That shows the scale of the topics to a certain extent though, there really is so much to say about them.
That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it's something I would cover here. Creating your own commenting system would assume that you are creating a home-made CMS/blogging script.
Users here are using a ready-made CMS, and expanding on it (like WordPress), which would already have the comments system set up.
When this commenting will over and we will see a difference that you need from us to make by giving our suggestions afterward. I m very curious to know that whose feedback be gonna focus for this blog and what kind of a change you like to do here.
Hey Tino. Sorry, didn't spot the comment until now!
This is my first time here and i see Beautiful Blog here.
Very EXCELLENT Design, you must a Great Designer right?
Here is my another belated suggestion: Please put a link about the number of comments on the post below the author bio. Presently I am just confused about the total number if I miss the number in the title of the post. Thanks.
Would be much easier for people to find the articles they are looking for!
This blog is really good and in this blog nice question about voting.
Thanks for share it and this information is really useful for us.
Good stuff, have you published the results anywhere??