Technosailor - Latest Comments in But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Vinnie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:48:29 -0000

I hate Trebuchet for long passages of text (just a personal thing I guess) but otherwise it looks awesome :)

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Rick — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:44:33 -0000

Strange. I tried it in Safari and Firefox, both on Mac OS X 10.4 and got the same problem. But now I've tried it in Camino, Safari, and Firefox, and it works fine. I do think it would be nice to have pop-up text (or whatever you call it), where the explanation appears just by hovering rather than having to try it out before getting an explanation of what it is.

Also, in the Conversation view, "receive" is misspelt!

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Aaron — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:30:07 -0000

Rick - Actually, the sticky text is working. What browser are you using?

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Aaron — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:28:42 -0000

Oops, thanks, Rick. Will get that description text working. Hadn't realized it wasn't working...

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Rick — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:57:44 -0000

This is a cool idea. But it is not immediately obvious from the name what the conversation view is. And, whatever view you're in, the little bit of explanatory text below the graphics stays stuck on explaining the standard view.

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HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:29:22 -0000

I've been slowly upgrading all my sites. The ones with the most plugins takes the longest. PS.. can you edit the code for URL #2 on the 12:39 post for Jonic? Needs

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Aaron — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:07:56 -0000

Hart: Um, yeah. You need to upgrade. ;) 2.0.4 will be out in days. Recommend you upgrade then as there are significant security issues that are resolved in it that affects all previous versions of WP.

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HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:39:28 -0000

Hi Jonic - while I'm here... the top is still a little weird when the window is NOT maximized (IEv7b3). The right box is all blue with no text, the RSS graphic is below it where the large ad box is ... and if you put the mouse over it the orange mouseover shows next to it .. and, the sidebar is moved to below the last entry on the page. I took pictures. 1 2.

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:31:14 -0000

It's nice. Maybe by the time I upgrade that petlvr blog from v1.5.2 to a version that supports widgets it will be publicly available. // thanks.

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Jonic — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:30:49 -0000

Just a quick not to say that in that last night I rewrote all of the CSS for this blog. All of it...

Most of the issues that have been raised in this discussion have been corrected, and it's not looks exactly like it was supposed to.

Leave a note here if you have a bug report/further suggestion :)

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Aaron — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:26:21 -0000

It's not publically available. I got the code from Andy Skelton. He had a widget he wrote for his blog and I twisted his arm to let me use it too. I'm hoping Automattic will include it in the Akismet plugin.

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HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:23:06 -0000

I like that "Because Akismet Cares.." graphic. Is that publicly available or unique to this blog? I know my PetLvr blog is up to almost 38000 now .. I think that's neat - but, couldn't find it on Akismet's pages.

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Brian Clark — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:29:41 -0000

I've played with it for a couple days, and I like it. Different than I would have envisioned, but good stuff usually is. :)

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Peter Smith — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:30:18 -0000

After reading your article I thought of giving a comment about beauty and to share it with other readers. Beauty is an inherent and innate aspect of one’s being which captivates the eyes of the outer world. In general sense, it is a positive reflection to one’s entire nature.

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Peter Smith — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:25:31 -0000

Thats funny, I couldn’t figure out what was it’s purpose and I kept on clicking it wondering when it was going to take me to some othere site or page.

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Aaron — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:40:08 -0000

I'd add that I am available for paid consulting/WordPress gigs for folks looking to accomplish similar feats. Email me at the contact address in the sidebar. :)

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Aaron — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:32:59 -0000

Nice, Geren. Another MD blogger. :)

I'll say it's all in massaging the Loop. Using the posts_* filters provided by WordPress (but undocumented, so you'll have to play with them) and a lot of patience. Even once you filter the query through filters, the Loop still likes to reorder the posts by ID so I had to to reorder the posts array when it was all done. It was ugly.

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Geren — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:23:15 -0000

Aaron, I love the design, but mostly, I like the "conversation." I've been trying to figure out how to do the same thing, but just can't seem to make it fly. If there are any hints you'd care to share ..... Thanks!

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BillyG — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:30:20 -0000

Love the sailor idea, don't forget to validate...

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Aaron — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:37:41 -0000

Actually, it does have a checkbox. It's up in the adspace in the top right though. Something is nudging it over there but I'm not sure what and haven't had a chance to work on it. Thats the phantom checkbox that Eric referred to above that I thought was part of the ad.

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ajaydsouza — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:34:59 -0000

Your welcome. It's great to read how people design their sites and why they did it. Good learning process :)

The Notify me of followup comments below doesn't have a checkbox to uncheck... or is it just me? I noticed the same on Firefox and IE.

Would love it if you can provide me your comments on my blog...

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Jonic — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:33:59 -0000

I have no idea why Steve Smith made people do that... If you're already burning your feed you can just put the exising feedburner address into the plugin and it will work...

I think the plugin assumes that whoever's using it doesn't know what feedburner is...

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Aaron — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:24:25 -0000

Ajay: Thanks, yes and it is a Feedburner assigned Feed. :)

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ajaydsouza — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:17:40 -0000

Firstly congrats on the new look.

Nice to read your observations on why you went by this look. The idea of having a good sidebar has really got me thinking on getting to work on my blog sidebar to make it better targetted.

Just one thing I would like to ask is why is your feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/technosailor/YXQk
I mean the YXQk at the end? Is it because of the feedburner redirector plugin?

Re: But, it doesn’t act like a blog!

Ingrid — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:02:22 -0000

Looove it. Great job, guys. :)