November 17, 2003
Christopher L. Filkins
I like the idea of using the editorial blog as a test bed for the new design. I'd also like to see a list of recent posts on the RFB site contained within the editorial blog so it's easier to get their from here. Maybe also a link to the front page.
Check out the Comments design in the link I made last night. Very sweet. I'd like to see something like those numbers incorporated into the new site design.
I'd also like to see the popups go away. I access the site from a number of different machines on a regular basis and having to manage popup blockers is a hassle. Far better to simply cut them out.
I have gone through my notes but have not been able to find the futurist design element I wanted to throw out as a great take on both futurism & radio. But unfortunately I cannot find it anywhere. Which means I have to trek down to UCLA to speak to some grad students and peruse their library. Still diggin, as Dave would say.
I like the idea of a link log, perhaps managed through a TypeList, but I think it should really focus on the same stuff the blog is supposed to so I'm not sure your existing Memewatch fits. Perhaps it does and I don't pay enough attention to it.
I know I know I haven't done anything about htaccess. Sorry. Will try to do better tonight.
Posted by filchyboy at November 17, 2003 10:00 AM
Easy enough to add those links, using the Global Listings plugin, so I'll try to do that today.
This touches on the public/private issue, in that if we clickthrough from here to RFB proper, this site will appear in the referrer logs, including the public one on the Salon community server. Few people are likely to poke around there besides me, so the "security through obscurity" thing might work, but we should either decide that it's OK if strangers read our deliberations (i.e., the "doing it out in the open is healthy" concept) or fix the password-protection I tried to set up initially.
Shall we gather the design issues together? Liza kind of volunteered to spearhead doing the new design, but I figure we're all in this together, so feature requests need to be logged and tracked.
I agree on getting rid of the popups. We'll do that in the new templates. It's just one of the best-practices I hadn't gotten around to implementing.
If we managed the link log through a TypeList, we'd all need access to it and then we'd have to figure out a way to include it over on this blog. TypeLists don't generate RSS, right? So how to do the include?
The Memewatch list includes a certain amount of stuff about blogging and of course popular web and blog memes, but it isn't keyed to RFB at all. I'd be happy to remove it from the main page and replace it with a link log of some stripe.
It could be as easy as setting up a new category and then just using it for shorter items when we don't have a lot of commentary to add.
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