We had three questions in our ask box yesterday about the Image Blocks, so we’d like to address them all in this post.
I know this is shocking, but I’m still trying to come up with a suitable new theme for WriteWorld.
Here’s my latest attempt.
-C
You’re confusing me.
You’re saying out links don’t work. But they totes do.
Check it out:
There’s a jump page because we might add other links related to Sentence Blocks there later.
I hope that clears things up!
-C
Hey there. We’re going to switch over to our new theme tonight, an example of which can be found here.
Do you have any final suggestions for improvement before we update our theme?
UPDATE: I take it back. Apparently I need to rethink a bunch of stuff. Again. So it’s a no-go on the new theme tonight.
We changed the background color and things.
Dude, if you guys have any suggestions on how to fix color contrast or whatever on the new WW layout, please let me know! I’ll even give you access to edit it yourself!
Any help is appreciated.
-C
What do you guys think?
C has been toying with a new theme that will show more links in the sidebar for super-navigation and which includes a search box. The link above is to the template, so don’t expect too much from the links in the sidebar or anything. We’d just like to know what you think of the layout/font size/etc..
Thoughts?
yen-yaw answered: Post less and in groups.
Not sure what that means… Can you be clearer?
owakura answered: well… tags are useful. Just tag well. Word clouds and tag clouds can also be useful.
We try to be both specific and broad in our tagging. We have conventional tags that we use over and over (e.g., “character tips”, “writeworld responds”, “image blocks”, “writing tips”). How would tag clouds be useful?
andisupposeyouhaveabetteridea said: I think you need to change your layout. I have a smaller-than-average laptop, and I can’t actually see all of the links on your sidebar. Other than that, I actually think you have great tagging - you seem pretty organised to me.
If you have a suggestion for a new layout, we’d be open to checking it out.
tropesarenotbad answered: Tags. If you had tags for “plot”, “character”, “structure”, ect, then people could search a lot easier.
We do tag our posts with all conventional, general tags like those you mentioned.
ezzydean said: I think the biggest thing is that so many of your sidebar links all seem to lead to either blank or unfinished pages. You need someone to fill up the content on these pages to make it all easier to use and find. Maybe add a search bar too?
We’d love to fill up the content on these pages. That takes time. How would having more content make the content easier to find? We like the idea of a search bar.
medleypond answered: I wanted to point out that though you have links to each kind of block, the pages there are empty…? It may just be a coding issue.
The pages are not empty. There is a link to a complete list of each type of Block on these jump-pages (as we call them). The Sentence Block jump-page has a poem on it, the Music Block jump-page will eventually have a complete playlist of all our Music Blocks, and we’re not sure what we’re doing with the Image Block jump-page yet. Any ideas?
Please drop us an ask with any suggestions you may have. Thank you!
goldstarlightningbolt asked: I really love the content on this blog, but I’m finding it a little unorganised and difficult to navigate. I’m finding it challenging to find what I’m looking for by clicking links on the sidebar and am often reverting to google searches to find what I want. I will, of course, still reference and enjoy your blog, but just a suggestion that you may want to alter the design and navigation somewhat.
We agree, and we’ve been thinking about how to fix this issue for quite some time. Do you have any thoughts on how to structure the blog so that information is more readily accessible without overwhelming or confusing people?
