• Postpositive.org – free your mind

    Request for comments – any feedback is welcome!

    http://www.postpositive.org

    Design goals:

    1) usability
    2) readability

    Technical notes:

    The front page is updated dynamically, whenever a post category (description used as subtitle) is added. Article counts for each category are also automatically updated.

    The link-add.php admin page can be used to add links to both the sidebar and the Friends Page (a wp page).

    If anyone is interested in the script that makes this happen, let me know.

    Links can be added to the Friends page or the Sidebar. To add a link to the Friends page, use Link Category Friends. To add a link to the Sidebar, use Link Category Audio, Video, or Books. This flexibility requires that links be built dynamically, using the link_description field in the links table to store either a short description or a Category ID.

    When adding a link to the Friends page, a Short Description is used; when adding a link to the Sidebar, a Category ID is used.

    The Category ID is the integer value of the Post Category (not to be confused with the Link Category), and is used construct a named anchor that is appended to the URI, which (for Sidebar links referencing library material), should be entered as: http://www.postpositive.org/library.php

    The Link Name is the friendly name (displayed in the Friends page or Sidebar) for the user to click.

    Named anchors in the Library follow a convention that divides library entries into sections, organized by post category. The Category ID can be entered as a decimal value (such as “7.3”) when the target anchor is created as such to reference a more precise location within a library section.

    When a Category ID of 0 (zero) is entered, a named anchor is not appended to the URI. Use Category ID 0 for Sidebar links to external locations (or internal locations without named anchors).

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  • Thread Starter boyjojo

    (@boyjojo)

    A word of thanks to all who contributed to WordPress —

    I love it! The transparency of the code is what makes this the best blogging software available. I can customize anything! Comments, posts, links, admin pages… AND I can modify the code, or add my own code, to change the behavior of my blog any way I like. It’s great! Thanks for your effort!

    Nice clean look, and thanks for the positive words about the program!

    Thread Starter boyjojo

    (@boyjojo)

    Yes, it’s purposely a no-frills design. There’s a lot of content – thousands of pages, hundreds of hours of audio and video, and more being added. So reader/user comfort is the main thing. Column width is “reader size” by design, “widgets” are kept to a bare minimum, navigation is simple and obvious.

    One thing that’s not so obvious it the link in the upper left corner to get back to the front page. But most people figure this out.

    I need to add RSS… maybe on the “about” page… I’m trying keep the sidebar as uncluttered as possible.

    Thread Starter boyjojo

    (@boyjojo)

    One issue I’ve struggled with is page size.

    30k is the generally accepted maximum for usability-oriented sites. But pictures are important and make a huge difference in terms of appearance. I’d like each article to have a lead-in pic, but that bloats page size real quick.

    For my site to scale (with a lead-in pic for each post), I’ll need more questions and less articles per question. But I guess this issue is common to all blog sites…

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