Comments on: A call for help I

By: nonegiven

nonegiven — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:18:44 +0000

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.

By: kris

kris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:36:45 +0000

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.

By: Lark

Lark — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:36:09 +0000

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

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:44:06 +0000

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.)

By: annebanan

annebanan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:10:47 +0000

Just my two cents, now that I’ve read all the good ideas everyone else had.

I personally dislike the rollover menus. Stuff is always popping out and covering what I’m trying to read, and when I’m on a site where there are rampant rollovers, I find myself sneaking my pointer around the page to avoid hitting rollovers. Some of them have a very fast “trigger” — you can’t avoid popping out menus even if you zoom by. I’ve wondered if the trigger can be set so that you have to hover for a mini-moment or two before the thing pops.

I think one of the ideas was to move more in the direction of a forum rather than a blog. I don’t use the forum at the moment. I find forums to be cluttered and without a strong central voice. Your blog has a very strong central voice (yours) which is the reason I come to it pretty much the moment I see new content. I appreciate what commenters have to say and often use the information they suggest, but I would be completely lost in a forum-only format.

I second (or third) the ideas of searches that include comments. But this hasn’t been a problem for me as I too have used Google’s Advanced Search feature to search your website for content I knew was there someplace.

I also second the idea of a larger text size. A blog I visit has a clickable text size button, and it remembers my selection so I don’t have to click it every time I visit.

As others have said — thank you SO MUCH for this blog and for all your posts and comments to comments and help interpreting test results and so forth and so on. –Anne

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:33:18 +0000

I’d like to be able to go through old posts more easily. Please have an index by date. For example, have a list of all the previous years and under each year list the months. If I click on “January” under “2007″ it should return all the posts from January 2007.

Thanks! I think you’re amazing to even have asked the question.

The old posts are archived exactly as you want them right now. Go to the right of the blog text and right above the Blogroll and there are the Post Archives. Click and you will find a list of months going back four years. Click on a month, and you get a list of all the posts in that month.

By: Lena

Lena — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:20:29 +0000

Love the blog, but numbered comments (like you had previously) and searchable comments would make it even better!

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:50:13 +0000

If you decide to do a new forum I don’t think it should be connected to the existing forum.

That seems more for low carbers who are dieting than for blog readers.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:36:17 +0000

I would like it if when I clicked on a category heading, I got a simple list of articles rather than the front picture and several paragraphs.

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:14:37 +0000

As far as Dr. Eades VERY GENEROUS Protein Powered forum…well, we’d LOVE to have more interaction there! More the merrier actually!

Thank You Dr. Eades for providing that ‘place’ for us to work it all out at. I’m amused at all the responses to your call. lol Poor you…but lucky US!

I’m just a lowly member…lol but …well, I’ll leave it at THAT! lol