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My blog

by alpinedon » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:00 am

Hey there Summitpost friends! I have been working on a blog about climbing (and hiking and kayaking as well) and I was wondering if I might ask for A) Feedback on how to improve my site, and B) Ideas for future articles as well. Thanks a lot, any ideas and (constructive) criticism would be really helpful.

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Re: My blog

by alpinedon » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:01 am

Oops. Forgot to leave my blog address: www.alpinedon.wordpress.com.

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Re: My blog

by Josh Lewis » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:29 am

As a web developer myself I would suggest having less on the main frontpage, it lagged my browser for a few seconds. :wink: Use some sort of system that either shortens the amount of characters when displaying the blog items or have less on the frontpage. SP is a good example, too much can overwhelm the reader.

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Re: My blog

by alpinedon » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:57 am

Thanks Josh, I will get on that. I admit I don't know much about what makes a good blog, but I am learning more every day.

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Re: My blog

by alpinedon » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:05 am

Josh, I made some changes if you get another chance to visit my page.

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Re: My blog

by Josh Lewis » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:41 am

Looks better. Just to make sure it loaded faster I cleared my cache which it loaded much better than earlier. :) I would still try to figure out how to shorten the characters on the frontpage, but seems manageable now. :wink:

As for the Album section I would reorganize it in one of a few ways. Either use some sort of lightbox with thumbnails or make it an actual gallery. On my personal site you can see an example of a lightbox gallery:
http://www.joshklewis.com/gallery (I have better pictures now days but am too busy to add them)

By the way, in the future rather than making separate reply, just edit the post you made. :wink: (when you make a mistake or add additional information). But do reply to others to make it still a discussion. :)

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Re: My blog

by alpinedon » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:19 pm

I just did a review of High Col Press in my blog today, Wouldn't mind some feedback!

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Re: My blog

by benjieddt » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:52 pm

I made a glance on your blog and it seems good although you should have less content at your home.

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Re: My blog

by WouterB » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:45 pm

Try showing excerpts on the category/homepages instead of full articles.


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