Comments on: Features A Blog Should Have http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/31/features-a-blog-should-have/ Ramblings about art, education, culture and a lot more Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ian Clifton http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/31/features-a-blog-should-have/comment-page-1/#comment-75807 Ian Clifton Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:22:39 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=412#comment-75807 Statistics are definitely a great feature. Being informed about what articles people are coming to helps give the author a better sense of what his/her readers are interested in (or whether readers just pop in from Google and take off again). Themes and templates are actually issues I've been debating with in the blog software that I am writing. Since it's designed specifically to my needs, I don't have any major need to have fancy template/theme switching, but I have been looking at splitting my blog into two: a technical one and an everything-else one. The semantic XHTML will definitely make styling much nicer but I am still debating the best way to handle templates. Open Search is a good thing to bring up that I hadn't thought about. I'll add it to my to-do list. I'm not sure which microformats would be applicable, unless the blog contains event information or perhaps contact info, but I'm definitely in favor of microformats. Interesting feature of WP2.5 that I noticed: If you type something after the ".com/" part of the URI, if will search for that (if applicable). For instance, "internet" forwards to an article on Internet Explorer that I wrote. Image handling in WP2.5 has improved from prior versions, but it still isn't where it should be. Statistics are definitely a great feature. Being informed about what articles people are coming to helps give the author a better sense of what his/her readers are interested in (or whether readers just pop in from Google and take off again).

Themes and templates are actually issues I’ve been debating with in the blog software that I am writing. Since it’s designed specifically to my needs, I don’t have any major need to have fancy template/theme switching, but I have been looking at splitting my blog into two: a technical one and an everything-else one. The semantic XHTML will definitely make styling much nicer but I am still debating the best way to handle templates.

Open Search is a good thing to bring up that I hadn’t thought about. I’ll add it to my to-do list. I’m not sure which microformats would be applicable, unless the blog contains event information or perhaps contact info, but I’m definitely in favor of microformats.

Interesting feature of WP2.5 that I noticed: If you type something after the “.com/” part of the URI, if will search for that (if applicable). For instance, “internet” forwards to an article on Internet Explorer that I wrote.

Image handling in WP2.5 has improved from prior versions, but it still isn’t where it should be.

]]> By: Josh Schumacher http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/03/31/features-a-blog-should-have/comment-page-1/#comment-75707 Josh Schumacher Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:49:06 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=412#comment-75707 I think something your blogging software should have built in is some sort of statistics (from the admin side). Another feature you didn't address is themes/templates. You need to be able to drop in a new css file or completely different templates and it should look completely different. Along the same lines, it needss to generate semantic, valid XHTML. I think your comments about communtiy are spot on. Search needs to be really good. It would be nice if if conformed to Open Search. The use of microformats where appropriate would be a nice to have. Images need to be very easy. I hate how wordpress handles images, it may have improved in 2.5 but how it used to be at least, sucks. I think something your blogging software should have built in is some sort of statistics (from the admin side). Another feature you didn’t address is themes/templates. You need to be able to drop in a new css file or completely different templates and it should look completely different. Along the same lines, it needss to generate semantic, valid XHTML.

I think your comments about communtiy are spot on. Search needs to be really good. It would be nice if if conformed to Open Search. The use of microformats where appropriate would be a nice to have.

Images need to be very easy. I hate how wordpress handles images, it may have improved in 2.5 but how it used to be at least, sucks.

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