Monday, November 10, 2008
Format Changes
You might notice that I've made a few format changes to my blog. I hope it's cleaner and simpler now.
Most of what I'm doing simply involves integrating Google Reader, which is an awesome resource. The fonts in the main posts are a little larger and the line spacing is a bit more dramatic, too. Overall, I hope the blog looks more streamlined, less cluttered, and easier to read.
My sidebar is now on the left, and you'll notice that I've added a widget that lists my recent reads. When I read something at another blog that I particularly want to point out, it'll pop up in that list.
My blogroll is now much smaller, too. I've trimmed a few blogs that don't publish regularly anymore. I've also gotten rid of some of the links to blogs that seemed superfluous. (Does Little Green Footballs, for instance, or Hot Air really rely on me to generate traffic? I don't imagine so.) It's possible, though, that I forgot to apply the proper Google Reader tag to your blog. So if you know I've always linked to you and for some reason you're not in my blogroll now, please let me know in the comments.
If the changes aren't showing up, try refreshing your browser. And please leave me a comment to tell me what you think.
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With the new trend toward readers, as evidenced by your own recent discovery, I don't think format is THAT important these days. I wouldn't have seen your changes until I came to comment, in which case I still have to come here.
One quirk of the reader - I have several blogs that show up as an entire block of text with no paragraph breaks, which makes me think, "Geez people, let's break up this text a bit!" But then I go to the blog and discover that it's in easy-to-read paragraphs. I don't know why this is, but I suspect it's when an author uses div-tags instead of actual breaks. I barely know what I'm talking about, by the way.
The wife pointed me toward a FF plug-in where blogs will show up IN THE READER as formatted by the author, which is cool but I haven't checked it out yet. If you want, I'll point you to it.
One quirk of the reader - I have several blogs that show up as an entire block of text with no paragraph breaks, which makes me think, "Geez people, let's break up this text a bit!" But then I go to the blog and discover that it's in easy-to-read paragraphs. I don't know why this is, but I suspect it's when an author uses div-tags instead of actual breaks. I barely know what I'm talking about, by the way.
The wife pointed me toward a FF plug-in where blogs will show up IN THE READER as formatted by the author, which is cool but I haven't checked it out yet. If you want, I'll point you to it.
Very minimalist, nothin' wrong with that. I'm one of those weirdos who uses a reader AND actually visits some blogs. That's in no small part because sometimes when I try and subscribe to a blog via bloglines, it says "Uh uh."
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