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The Planet Lotus Blog Widget is available for download.
Let me know what you think.
Yancy Lent
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January 4th, 2008 - 15:41
Hey Yancy,
Great idea. It’d be more usable for people browsing, though, if the links went directly to the blog posts in question. Having them load up the PlanetLotus home page with particular post highlighted is going to drive traffic to your site, so it makes sense for you to do it that way. For the people trying to read the blog posts, though, it’s just an extra click and an extra page load while they wait to get to the blog posting they thought they just clicked on. Speaking as the blogger, I don’t care either way because they’ll wind up at the post eventually. But as a blog reader, I probably won’t click on any of the links if all they do is what they do now.
January 4th, 2008 - 16:12
I weighed this approach and yes I saw it being seen as ‘coming back to _my_ site’, but the reason i did it was for the potential 5th person posting who wasn’t listed in the widget or the other 160+ blogger waiting to be discovered. If we keep that site at the center everyone benefits.
January 9th, 2008 - 09:22
Yancy,
This is great but can I add one suggestion? In the script can you give the user the ability to change the background color of the widget? I would love to use this but the background of my blog is black and with the transparent background of the widget you cannot see the text.
Thanks
January 9th, 2008 - 10:32
@ Mike, try this
January 9th, 2008 - 10:34
Wait, let’s try that again. Remove the ‘ at the start of the lines…if it will let me post it this way
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January 9th, 2008 - 10:51
Yancy, Andy Tried posting a solution but it wasn’t showing up. He suggested wrapping the script in a table to handle the background color. I updated his logic to wrapping it in a div tag instead:
Thanks
Mike
January 9th, 2008 - 10:52
OK, can’t post the code in a comment, but you get the idea.