A call for help I

3. January 2009, 20:32 UhrMiscellaneousmreades44 comments

I’m going to put up a couple of short posts one after the other in an effort to get your input on a couple of issues.  First, MD and I are in the process of redesigning our website and blogs.  Instead of using one of the available blog templates available through WordPress we’re having our own design.  We’ll have better integration among the blog, the website, and all the features that are carefully hidden in our blog/website right now.  And – we hope – these hidden gems won’t be quite so hidden.  As it stands now, the new design should be functional in a few weeks.

My question to you is what features would you like to see.  All I have done so far is look for features that make life easier on me, but since you all are the readers, what would make life easier on you?

Please use the comment section to let me know what changes you would like to see.  And please don’t go off topic on this one because I want to have all the suggestions in one place without having to sift through a bunch of off-topic comments.  Thanks in advance.

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  1. Tom, January 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Never knew you had a forum.

    I’d like you to consider more of a “newspaper” type layout for the blog’s front page than one that requires endless vertical scrolling to see more than one article.

    Here is an example of what I’m talking about (this is an off-the-shelf WordPress theme):

    http://www.revolutiontwo.com/demo/lifestyle.html

    That theme is $60, and is easy to customize. (I think it’s a spectacular value.)

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  2. Lark, January 9, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    I do most of my web surfing and blog reading these days on my iPhone, so lean and not too graphics intensive is good.

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  3. kris, January 20, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Dr. Mike – I hope this isn’t a pesky question and I apologize for it coming up so late in the game: Is it possible to find out which posts are still active either by doing a search on my end or being notified by email from your end as with the current posts? In other words, I would like to know somehow when you respond to a cataloged or older post. There are so many topics now on your site and I recently realized that posts over 2 years old are still active. I don’t want to miss out on anything!

    I’m sorry, but I really don’t have a clue. I will try to address this issue when I get the new blog/website custom design up in the next month. If anyone out there knows, I’m all ears.

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  4. nonegiven, January 21, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    kris
    On this page:
    http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/
    on the right side of the page, down past the books, the blogroll and the links, there is a section titled ‘Meta’ you can subscribe to the comments RSS through a blog reader. I use bloglines,
    http://www.bloglines.com/ I get a page of just comments, I think the comments are in the order they were approved no matter which post they were commenting on.

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