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[...] Totally redundant stuff such as Recent comments, chronological archives etc were either removed or shifted to inner pages long back [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:16:18 +0000

You’re right about change. Some blogs have confused me in that I don’t know what’s new or old, but if I got there via a CommentLuv indication and I liked what I read, then I just subscribe to the blog and read it in my Feedreader program so I don’t have to deal with it.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:38:33 +0000

@Mitch, sometimes you want to ‘still’ go with the old approach right? Somehow when people visit blogs they expect some kind of a look and feel sad but true. For example, many people are yet to get adjusted to the magazine themes for they don’t know where to look for the newest posts. I am planning to take out the chrono archives once it’s suitably replaced with a more appropriate functionality to access older items, if needed. I am following Kim’s advices on these topics.

@Raj, I appreciate your visit and comment. I liked your example on why archives are not always a useful thing . Btw, congratulations on your new blog/site.

By: Raj Krishnaswamy

Raj Krishnaswamy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:09:41 +0000

Hi Ajith: Nice post. I agree with you all the way. I have a blogger blog that I started about a year ago and was really frustrating to see half the things to be pretty useless. Being new to blogging, I did not want to change over to WordPress. Looking back that seems like an incorrect turn I took from the get go. The worst is the archives feature. I mean who wants to read yesterday’s paper. You know you can really get rich if you can read tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal today, but yesterday’s? Thank you.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:27:17 +0000

I agree with you on the archives list, and yet we both still have them. I'm sort of reluctant to go into the PHP and remove it, mainly because I'm unsure as to what kind of damage it might do to everything else. How about you?Mitch's last blog post...BlogRush Is Done

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:23:09 +0000

@Vijay, for marketing and communicating purposes a simple but attracive landing page might help… However, since this is usually a ‘separate page’ of the blog and doesn’t appear ‘within’ the typical blog content…

By: Vijay S

Vijay S — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:54:05 +0000

About landing pages for blogs? They are very irritating for me. Some ppl have landing pages for all visitors and then u have to proceed to the actual blog via clicking a link.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:35:50 +0000

Kim, yes the archives part is inspired by your views as well… Btw, in fact, I thought about the tag cloud – but on rethinking, I felt that it may be of some use if number of tags are less?

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:01:34 +0000

Ajith,

Well, you know how I feel about the usefullness of chronological archives for most site. I have not yet come up with a better way of dealing with it yet.

Recent comments are not that useful either other than showing that people are commenting. I have them in my footer and actually use them when I want to respond to comments but I doubt my users find them valuable.

I also question the usefulness of the tag cloud. They look cool but I don’t ever navigate around someone’s site that way. I use the search. Again, this is another feature that I have but don’t find useful

Oh – and good point about Recent Posts – I definitely don’t need that on my home page – only on the single post page. I’m going to change that next time I do some tweaking.

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