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Want Me To Read Your Blog? Do This
- joelrunyon 15y agoIt would be interesting to see who the author thinks makes "knockout biographical pages."
- dylangs1030 15y agoWell, no, I didn't mean myself :). However, websites like DaringFireball - very good about pages.
- user24 15y agoI'll tell you what not to do; dark grey links on a black background. On my laptop screen I literally couldn't see them until I selected all text on the page to see if I was missing something. I was. edit: Looks like this might be a Firefox only issue. It looks fine in Chrome. Screenshot (Fx8.0.1, OSX 10.7.2) : http://i.imgur.com/0QNca.png http://i.imgur.com/0QNca.png edit2: Yup. body { background: -moz-radial-gradient(center center 45deg, circle closest-side, black 10%, black 20%) repeat fixed 0 0 transparent; } overrides the background-image and is Mozilla-specific. Test in multiple browsers, people! edit3: Oh for pete's sake, I thought "I know, I'll be nice and tweet him so he knows there's a problem". His contact page doesn't list a twitter, I have to scroll down his sidebar to find a tiny little twitter icon, which has a broken link. I feel really happy taking advice from this guy. edit4: anyway, as regards what he's actually saying[A], I don't agree. I run a blog at http://puremango.co.uk http://puremango.co.uk which got 80,000 views in the last 30 days (~2500 pageviews per day). Of those, 120 were viewing the about page. It's linked from every page in the top navigation. So, unless I'm doing something wrong I don't think the about page is that important. What's important is quality content. [A] and you see, this is why getting things like multiple browser testing sorted are important; The discussion has been hijacked by this issue when we could have been talking about your post instead.
- amccloud 15y agoEither he fixed it or your monitors contrast is horrible.
- user24 15y agoNo it's not fixed. I was in bed with the screen tilted slightly away from me. Even face on it's still poor. You can't tell me that #333 text on #000 background is a good idea.
- kaybe 15y agoIt's the same for me. If I look at it head on I can just see it, but if I tilt my monitor just a little , the links literally vanish, I only see black (and this is 5° max). It's actually bad enough for me to stop poking around the site any further.
- gsivil 15y agoThe font choice makes the blog such a pain to read.
- dylangs1030 15y agoActually, thank you. This is very weird because when I tested it on Firefox (beta) it didn't display any CSS difficulties. I'll have to go in and change that.
- bluesmoon 15y agoI don't know about this. I rarely read the about page, but if someone has a list of blog posts related to the one I'm currently reading, or makes references to other posts with more information, I will often (not always) read those as well. It's very rare that I'll keep going back to a blog or subscribe to its RSS feed. I find that hackernews tends to surface the best stories any way. As for comments, if I get to a site via hackernews, I'll most likely comment on hackernews.
- dylangs1030 15y agoI'm going based on what I see in my traffic, you're right, it could be wrong, but in my experience it seems to be true.
- ljfoy 15y agoSpell checking would help too.
- PakG1 15y agoThat's interesting, because I almost never read the bio. I just see if the content is interesting to me.