boyjojo

Looks good. I like the straight-forward design.

Some constructive criticism:

The beveled header bars look like toolbars. Almost confusing, like they want to be clicked.

The nav boxes (politcs, ideas, etc.) at the top would be better horizontal.

The very top area (Plato…) is very valuable real estate. Try to use it to help the user: why am I here? what kind of content can I expect.

side bar text is kind of small.

overall, real nice

The site is spiffy and polished, to be sure. But I’m not sure where I am when I arrive. Why am I here? I’m not sure which section of the page I’m supposed to focus on…

I’m a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to fancy sites, however.

Even my tastes in women are like that… but that a different subject ??

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…

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.

The design/theme is outstanding – definatley scores high in usability, looks sharp, clean.

I’ll be visiting your religion/politics entries…

Regards,

boyjojo
https://www.postpositive.org

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!

what version of wp?

I had comments problem in 2.0.3 that was due to a post being in more than one category.

workaround for bug in wp-admin/edit.php (ver 2.0.4) to fix broken “Previous Entries” link:

line 59:

$posts_per_page = -1;

line 72:

e('Posts');

Just upgraded to 2.0.4 – problem still exists.

changing line 59 to:

$posts_per_page = 1000;

and line 72 to:

e('Last 1000 Posts');

until solution can be found.