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Please let us know. We'd love to hear your feedback.
Thanks!
I like the partial text. It fits other media presentation sites and more importantly allows a more in-depth subject treatment when needed.
However before I forget, a 152K header pic seems a little heavy when phone use.
Thanks for the feedback. Be sure to vote in the poll on this thread.
Good feedback. We'll see if we can compress that image a bit.
However before I forget, a 152K header pic seems a little heavy when phone use. Good feedback. We'll see if we can compress that image a bit.
Observation: Blog image could be much smaller (about same size vertically as Logos logo on Blog page).
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Oh ... no wonder I didn't see any poll. If your JS is off, it shows the results; if on it invites a vote. That's interesting (I usually keep scripting off).
We'd love to hear your feedback.
I like it overall. One suggestion: can we get some fly down menus at the top showing maybe the six-ten most recent entries in the category?
What do you like?
It's clean looking, the fonts are scaled well and I like the sans serif font.
I also like the new "name" Logostalk.
I do not like the double commenting system with both facebook and Wordpress comments. It looks indecisive and petty, like you're trying to grab some social networking action in while attempting to be your own blog too. Just dump the FB comments.
Honestly I'd love it if you could find a way to embed the particular thread from the forum into the blog comments, but if not, just stick with the WP comments and drop facebook - leave the "like" button, that's fine but don't try to do both. It's garish. (can you tell I don't like it?)
What do you not like?
The header image is rather large, it's a bit overpowering at first glance. I've learned to ignore it, but I think it's a bit much.
What can we do to make it better?
Beyond dumping the multiple formats for commenting, Might you consider letting each "author" have an account to post? When someone from Text Dev, posts I'd rather see that the post was from them, rather than having the author listed as Jayson but with a note to the contrary. It's a small thing but it bugs me every time I see it.
More than that, however I'd like to see blog posts that mention Logos personnel link to some kind of a brief bio page on them. As it stands right now if Phil writes a post and I see a link on his name, it just links to logos.com That's nice - but pointless. Shouldn't it link to logos.com/people/PhilGons ?
Do you prefer full or partial posts on the home page?
Thanks for asking for the feedback.
Phil, I pretty much agree with Thomas! *smile*
Thomas, congratulations on your 5,000 plus posts. You've been a positive and real help to so many!
Including me! *smile* You are truly appreciated!
Your humour is also very much appreciated. Keep it up!
Peace to all!
Ok, did you add this while I was sleeping or did I miss it yesterday? As of yet it just links to other posts by said author which is fine - I still like the bio's idea...
Thanks Thomas!!! Wasn't aware a new blog update and even ordered a book. I guess the comments now go to Facebook, best I can figure anyway. One of the curiosities of the Logos blog at least for my browser is that it doesn't update (pulls from PC memory). The other Logos sites update.
One of the curiosities of the Logos blog at least for my browser is that it doesn't update (pulls from PC memory). The other Logos sites update.
Phil, I pretty much agree with Thomas!
So do I.
One of the curiosities of the Logos blog at least for my browser is that it doesn't update (pulls from PC memory). The other Logos sites update.I have seen some odd caching behavior from the Logos blog as well. But I haven't established a pattern yet that can explain it.
We're using W3 Total Cache and MaxCDN to try to increase site performance. WordPress is a little more database intensive than Movable Type, so server side caching is important for WP sites with the kind of traffic that the blog gets.
What are you experiencing? I might be able to customize things to improve user experience.
That's been there since we launched it.
There's a bio feature that we can turn on at the bottom of posts. We'll look into it.
There's a bio feature that we can turn on at the bottom of posts. We'll look into it.Fair enough, I'm getting to the point that I probably recognize most names for who they are, but I like the idea still.
But some of us do not follow the Blog as closely - I see the headlines in FB (or, occasionally, a reference in the forums) and only read it if the topic or title sounds of interest. The bio could be useful.
Also, I did not quite follow everything that was being discussed about FB above; but, because I do look at the titles and topics in FB, I do hope that you will at least continue posting these details to your FB page.
Regarding PC caching, I'm on Opera and the site never updates; always requires a refresh. I can't remember any other sites that are like that .... indeed all the Logos sites get a new copy automatically. Is there something in the downloaded html that tells the browser something? It's been that way through several Opera versions (I know you don't write to Opera but just a clue relative to Thomas).
One thing I've found I don't like, is your moving the Search box from the top of the right column to the top of the page: a) it took me an awfully long time to find it, scrolling up and down several times, and b) up there by the logo, you kind of get the impression that it will search the entire Logos website, rather than just the blog. I'd prefer it between Subscribe and Featured Posts (or above Followers).
One thing I've found I don't like, is your moving the Search box from the top of the right column to the top of the page: a) it took me an awfully long time to find it
Hah! I came on here to suggest they added a search facility to the blog. Thanks for letting me know where to look.
(Though that does suggest that fgh is right - I looked for it in the right column, too.)
I should add that I dislike the Facebook comments too. In my opinion there should be one type of comments, either Facebook, WP, or Forum. My ideal would be that comments appear both on the forum and the blog page itself. If the forum software supported RSS feeds for threads (which would be very useful, by the way), it would be very easy to write a WP plugin that displayed forum comments on the blog page.
Couldn't it be done with an iframe and css that hides the navigation to other forum areas?
When i hit refresh on this blog page it shows a progress bar while it is loading the Facebook comments. i waited 2 minutes and it had still not finished (i have highspeed cable).
Seems others can delete comments that others have entered. Last night i entered 2 short replies under this users comment to assist in showing a wiki page with the pictures of the icon. They are gone today. Last night i checked back about 10 minutes after entering the replies and they were there as expected, but gone today.
EDIT: non facebook comments are blocked when adding a URL. There is not notification that it was blocked either. i added a URL to the Logos wiki page.
I don't know if you Logos-guys changed anything, but the caching on the browser stopped ... i.e. the initial visit to the blog site brings up the latest. Thank you, if you fixed it!
The Masthead is too busy for something that doesn't seem to represent any relevant visual communication. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty but seems to be without purpose.
The right sidebar takes up to much "real estate" (article/content space), it could be reduced 30-50px and still be readable and functional navigation. It seems to take on as equal importance as the article/content area.
I would prefer a little larger "eye candy", meaning the images used in your main articles (content area) could be larger.
I like partial posts on the home page but with larger sample/summary content. It should provide more content than a Facebook post... because you can .
Humble suggestions.
Anthony
