15 Jul 2007 1058H

Construction Notes 6: Review, Reflect, Repost

Today is week 1 of the post-redesign. Sometimes, in looking at e-commerce, I think people really just want View All. They want to see all the results for a category and leave it to them to pick out what they want to see, but the trick is how to manage it for them so it’s not imposing more effort on them than before? Blogs are another matter, though. Or are they?

So, for the front page, what I’m going to do is truncate things into a short and simple summary para or lead, if users are more interested, they can click more, and if they’re not they can just do whatever. Since I’m tracking analytics, I’ve kind of already done the pre-test and so if conversion falls in terms of clickthroughs or visits, then we’ll know that it was a failure.

Since Digg This doesn’t make much sense unless you read the whole thing, we’ll just leave it on the single template and not have it on the front page.

The category links help the user scan the articles to see if they’re relevant to them, and if they just want to see all the posts in an area, then, they can just click on that link to filter.

But Edit and Respond don’t necessarily make sense at the blurb level — edit because I use the front page a lot, respond though, we can skip. Let’s give it a shot now.

Also I just plugged in Bad Behavior to work with Akismet. So far so good.

Update. I just fixed the comments (used a legacy comments template), so that should be working. I’m working on categories right now. Not sure what I’ll do with them. I’ll figure something out, as I always do. Feeling my way through the system. . . .

Reverting back to Default/Kubrick until we can target these tasks.

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