You cannot help but notice the major redesign of this blog. Everything is now much more streamlined and easy to follow. And the COMMENT link at the bottom of each post is much more prominent, a change that I hope will encourage more community chatter about writing issues.
You will also see a new box that offers up “tags” for the various articles, making it much easier to see if the blog has already covered something of interest to you. Related to that feature, we’ll soon have a community space which will also make it much easier for readers to network with one another. I hope you find this addition helpful.
Don’t forget two other features that are easy to overlook: The Online Writer’s Office offers a lot of material and tools for you to look into and use. Click on the link in the sidebar. And the Productivity Store continues to make it easy to find and purchase books about various aspects of writing from Amazon. There’s a special section in the store pointing to books now available on the Kindle e-book reader. Some of them are major classics and are available at very low cost.
I hope you all appreciate the changes.
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Comment by
Dwayne Phillips
14 Jul 2008
Nice changes. It looks good, and is easier to use.
Comment by
Dustin
14 Jul 2008
Looking pretty good, Tom! Very “file foldery”. Neat, clean, and easy to get around. I’m not crazy about the Jiglu tags — seems like it adds a lot of clutter to your post, with auto-tags on words like “offers” (which is taken out of context — people aren’t reading this post looking for special offers). I wonder if there’s a way to “dial it down” a little, because it seems like a useful service if it’s not addling links to every line, sometimes two or three times in a sentence?
Comment by
Tom Colvin
14 Jul 2008
Dustin, that’s a good point about scaling back the “tags.” In fact, Jiglu allows one to do just that, in relatively easy fashion. I didn’t realize until today that the tags ripple through the posts themselves with words underlined. So I’m just beginning to fine-tune this facility.
The new “theme” also needs some important adjustment. I’m right at the moment reading my reference books about editing the Stylesheet. I need a flexible width to the main post content. And I want to drop the sidebar on the different pages [already figured out how to do that].
Some of my widgets have stopped working as well, so need to review all of them too.
Ah, the tasks of blog maintenance!