Comments on: The Planet Lotus Blog Widget is available for download. http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:14:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Mike Smelser http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Mike Smelser Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:52:57 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-11 OK, can't post the code in a comment, but you get the idea. OK, can’t post the code in a comment, but you get the idea.

]]> By: Mike Smelser http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mike Smelser Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:51:14 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-10 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 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:

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]]> By: Andy Donaldson http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Andy Donaldson Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:34:30 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-9 Wait, let's try that again. Remove the ' at the start of the lines...if it will let me post it this way ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '  ' ' 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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]]> By: Andy Donaldson http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Andy Donaldson Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:32:34 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-8 @ Mike, try this   @ Mike, try this

 

]]> By: Mike Smelser http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Mike Smelser Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:22:19 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-7 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 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.

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]]> By: Yancy Lent http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Yancy Lent Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:12:05 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-6 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. 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.

]]> By: Rob McDonagh http://www.yancylent.com/2008/01/02/the-planet-lotus-blog-widget-is-available-for-download/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Rob McDonagh Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:41:14 +0000 http://yancylent.com/?p=3#comment-5 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. 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.

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