Comments on: Updated Theme With More For You

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:11:16 +0000

Discovered issues:
1) nav bar on the top of the screen has a rendering issue in IE6.
2) “all articles” page uses chronological order, but order is messed up for posts prior to 2006-01-16 (when the blog was moved from wordpress.com to our own hosting). Note – id’s were not created sequentially during the migration – may also be an issue for some articles that were written in advance of their publishing date.

To fix:
1) add IE6-specific CSS hack to style consistently
2) modify page generation to explicitly use post dates rather than post IDs

When: tbd

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:53:35 +0000

Hey Ric – thanks for the suggestion. These pages actually render right to left :) I wanted the articles on the right, but I wanted them to load “before the bling”

The browsers will (or should) render the html top down in terms of the source. And my css is set up so that the article is first in the source, then the comments, then the stuff on the side. And since the images are on another site, the page should load without them then fill them in as it can.

Thanks again!

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:01:46 +0000

Scott

Looking better by the minute – I knew having the pictures would be good! Just one more thought – most blog rendering happens from the left column and goes right (YMMV) – so it may be an idea (if possible) to put the post column on the left, and the sidebar on the right, so that your content renders before the bling (after all, it’s the CONTENT that people are here for, so don’t slow it down any more than necessary).

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:12:31 +0000

Another update.

Thanks for the offline suggestion, Ric!

Now on the index and category pages (at least for articles after April 1st), you now get to see the image, links, and more text – where before it was just a plain text summary of the first paragraph.

There’s also a “Read the rest of the article…” link to let you know that there is more to read. And for really short articles (not that there are many of them) the entire article will show up in the index / category page.

Thanks again for the continuing feedback on usability, everyone!

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:56:16 +0000

Thanks Deepak! And thanks for being such a loyal reader and contributor. I hope to keep making the site even more useful for product managers and business analysts.

Any suggestions on how to do that?

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:22:55 +0000

Scott

Excellent work. The new site is definitely easier to navigate. … and congratulations on your growth. Your site is, IMHO, the product managers #1 resource

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:17:30 +0000

Another tweak – I’ve removed two-thirds of the ad placements on the site. The goal of the ads has always been to cover operation costs for the blog, and with our growing popularity, we don’t need as many ads.

Hopefully this will make the user experience better for everyone!

By: ed

ed — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:31:26 +0000

Keep up the great work.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:40:48 +0000

The new and improved printing is now available. Just use your browser to print an article. No need to cut-n-paste or click an extra link. You can use print-preview to see what it looks like without wasting paper.

Thanks again all, and please let me know if you see any issues.