I’ve had a good idea for a way to simplify the front page of a blog: have the newest post displayed in it’s full glory, but have other posts only have an excerpt.
Actually, what I might do is make it so that is uses JavaScript, and only the post headers of other posts are shown, but clicking on the title displays the whole text…
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Hi schinckel,
This is something the bloggers are using now a days and as far as the front page is conserned its a good ploy. But is this really useful from SEO point of view? On the other hand I have given the liberty to my visitors to show/hide the content of the posts and that helps to some extent.
Can we give the liberty to the visitors to customize the homepage (how many posts to show) and maybe set a cookie? I think it might be interesting to see the reaction of the visitors
Thanks,
Ramnath
1 day, 3 hours after the fact.
@Ramnath
What’s an SEO ? I live in a cave - so I miss a lot
W/regards to what matt is saying, its a similar reason that attracted me towards the Hemingway theme and efforted a port for blogsome engine. Granted it displays the two latest posts but that kind of formatting should be possible. Elliot Swan has a design that should feed such thought processes.
3 days, 13 hours after the fact.
@ Rajeev
SEO = Search Engine Optimisation.
@Ramnath
There are limits to what we can do with Blogsome - what you are talking about would be fairly simple (one would think) with Wordpress, but might not be so easy with Blogsome.
The main problem is that we can’t generate our own SQL queries to get posts, we can only use the ones that Blogsome gives us. This is why we can’t have moderated comments, and such.
6 days, 23 hours after the fact.
Hi schinckel,
Thanks for your valuable thoughts and yup it is not always possible to do everything up here. Though I have heard .. Schinckel can do almost everything (adding an almost
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Thanks,
Ramnath
1 week after the fact.