Comments on: Cranky’s New Site Layout

By: CF

CF — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:05:17 +0000

Well, glad you’re still hanging around, Axel!

By: Axelsarkis

Axelsarkis — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:56:47 +0000

Jesus- the last post brought this up in my emails… I posted 4 years ago. My God, how time goes by… Well, CF, I’ve been reading your blog here for a nice chunk of my life….

By: alexander james

alexander james — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:53:41 +0000

@Ron one reason CF may not want to include the year is because a post is evergreen. When someone is seeing a blog post or the post in a search result and see that it’s old they may unnecessarily discount it because of its age.

Some things are timeless and you wouldn’t want people to discount something that stands the test of time.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:57:34 +0000

Ron – Believe it or not, that takes more effort that it might seem, but I’ll put it on the list. For now, if you look in the url when you’re on a post, you’ll see the year in there. Not perfect, but it’ll get you the information you need until I can fix this.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:17:08 +0000

One small suggestion — add the year to the date of each post. It’s useful when old posts come up in searches or links. Right now only comments have a year.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:27:03 +0000

Matthew – Upon further discussion, I’ve decided not to have the links open in a new window. Instead of popping up the window, I’m going to give the choice to the user. If you want it to open in a new window, right click on the link and it will give you options on how to open it. I hope that works for you.

By: Benji

Benji — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:01:01 +0000

Cranky, I’m sorry, I don’t like it. I don’t like the fonts or the overall layout. I know what you’re trying to do but it doesn’t feel as warm and “homey” as the old CF.com. :(

By: CF

CF — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:10:43 +0000

Nomadic Matt – Thanks for the feedback. Most of what I heard when I spoke with people about this is that they’d prefer to have the ads and the content kept separate to avoid confusion and annoyance. I realize I probably won’t be able to please everyone all the time, but I’m pretty comfortable keeping this set up that way.

Matthew – That’s a good suggestion. I will do the work to add that when I get a chance.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:22:58 +0000

I like the new look. One suggestion if I may……I would like to see your external links open in a new window, or tab. When I click on your BNET posts, forums or ads, I move away from your site, and then I have to navigate back to where I was reading.

By: Nomadic Matt

Nomadic Matt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:16:53 +0000

I’d get rid of the whole advert sidebar. it doesn’t look good. This blog is better as a 2 column blog. You could blend the adverts into the comment posts and below the topics.