Chekhov's Mistress
The Reason for My Silence Revealed: Chekhov’s Site Redesign
I’ll keep this short for now, but I haven’t been able to post much lately for working on the new site design. You’ll notice that all the posts show only their exerpted form on the main page but the “read more” should just open on the page (archive and author pages’ “read more” buttons will take you to the individual entry page).
There may be a thing or two that doesn’t work that I have yet to tweak and thanks to those that have called items to my attention and I welcome any thoughts or criticism of the new site. My only real design goal was to pack as much information on the page as possible with as few clicks (at least to a new page) as possible; if that makes sense.
I’ll be filling out the links section soon, hopefully with OPML files that you can download into a feed reader. If you would like to have your site listed and it’s not already there, just contact me. I only ask that your site be primarily literary in nature. I have a few sites to add from recent emails, which I will be doing soon too. The biggest problem is how to fit them all into a category or something to make a list meaningful. Ideas anyone?
I’m also going to be changing the category names to some shorter, more useful things than “You’re Nobody Until Somebody Loves You” or “Dependent Children of Independent Bookstores.” I’ll be sad to see them go, but in the name of clarity…
I’ve also added comments to the RSS (index.rdf) feed (not the ATOM feed). I haven’t tested it though, although I think it should be valid. I don’t think you need to change anything if you already have a feed to this site.
That’s it for the laundry list. All I want to do is get back to writing and reading!
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– Bud Parr (08/10 at 11:36 PM)
Looking rather lovely. What handsome buttons, but you know your site design has always been exemplary, Bud.
– genevieve (08/11 at 02:35 AM)
Uncategorically excellent, the new layout.
I wondered where you had been the last few days, then yesterday noticed the new site design AND the addition of a photoblog. The new site looks very good, elegant and uncluttered, and it’s also good to have another photoblog to check into. There’s another excellent daily photo by a Toronto photographer at topleftpixel.com—maybe add to your links if you like what you see? (daily photo a nice addition to breakfast).
When I’m not about to dash out the door, will digest and comment on your recent posts (thanks for the Kadare exchange, and the Leibowitz link—love reading her prickly wit) as I catch up with my life. Honestly don’t know how you manage to cover so much territory: I suspect you’re really at least 3 people.
– Norma (08/11 at 08:20 AM)
Comments in the feed worked for me. Site looks good.
I’d love to know how you did that expanding text thing with the posts.
– derikb (08/11 at 09:34 AM)
looks gorgeous.
– michelle (08/11 at 06:56 PM)
Glad to see Tufte’s ideas on optimizing data/information resolution are being realized. Keep up the good work, Bud.
– Dave (08/13 at 11:25 PM)
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