I did a little tweaking on the blog page to give it a cleaner look and provide additional information. You might notice the following improvements:
1) A single column, rather than two staggered columns.
2) Obvious ‘READ MORE>>’ link (Clicking the headline works too.)
3) Name of Author on each excerpt.
4) If you add a featured image, your Avatar (typically your face) appears just above the headline.
5) Date of post
6) Number of comments so far.
Like most blogs, it’s in reverse chronological order with a menu at the bottom to help you move through the pages. Excerpts take the first 40 words of your post, which is why it’s a good idea to avoid pasting a URL at the start. (Use the Link feature on the blog post form to make a proper hyperlink please.)
When you click the READ MORE link, or headline, and go to the individual post page, look to the right menu and you’ll see a link to return to the blog page, as well as a list of recent posts by that author.
As always, your suggestions for improvement are welcome.
7 replies on “Blog Page Gussied Up”
the images and the navigation header look way too big in the blog section. I only view the site on computers, so although the page may look good on a phone or tablet it doesn’t look so good on a larger screen
Those all look great, Scott. So good in fact that I will fight my impulse to make a snarky comment about “tweaking”.
The struggle is real. Thanks, Ralph.
It seems as if this change has made a few replies to my comments inaccessible to me. If I click on the notifications, it says page not found (error 404). So Scott, Ralph, and Antaine, whatever you said to me yesterday, I didn’t read it.
it’s not that, Nolan. There’s a glitch that periodically unpublishes some posts and I have to restore them manually…which I just finished doing. You might want to try again.
The improvements look great, Scott! The blog page looks much more professional. It might be better to place the “back to member blog” button at the bottom of the page, between the facebook button and the links to the preceeding and succeeding posts. Or maybe just add an additional one there. It depends on what other members think.
Good suggestion, Nolan, which there are several ways to execute. I’ll fiddle with some options.