A List of Minor Site Changes
June 11 2007 10:38 PM -- Filed in: Site News
| Recruiting
Let's be honest; the offseason can be boring.
Recruiting can fill some voids but even an active day
like today - one with more news on Devon Torrence and a reversal of a public verbal
by basketball recruit Luke Babbitt - is still
rather mundane. Because of this, I've used the
quiet time to look into ways to enhance the site
and hopefully bring added value. To that end, a
list of some small changes for your
edification...
- Multiple Categories and Tags -
My old system only allowed a single category and
didn't have tags at all. I'm using categories
strictly at this point until I decide what, if
anything, to do with the tag feature. Not sure if
it's necessary to use both.
- New Permalink style - This
will seem minor but it's a new feature I quite
like. Now a user can simply click on the title of a
blog entry to get the unique URL. You'll notice
each blog heading is has a minor rollover effect
signifying it's a clickable link. Should also
provide a minor help on SEO. The separate,
freestanding "Permalink" label is gone.
-
Inline Commenting - Comments
will now be displayed on the same page with each
permalink URL. To test it out, click on the title
of yesterday's entry and you'll see the comments
"inline". Gone are the days where the commenting
window has to open everytime to read or
add thoughts. There is no change to the pop-up
commenting screen on the main page.
- Video Wiki - Perhaps the best feature of all. Most of us like to watch videos of our Buckeyes. We see links on various messageboards, YouTube, Google, my site, someone else's site, etc. It just gets confusing keeping track of it all. To help out, I created the BC Video Wiki which acts as a centralized database (by year) to track and list online Ohio State football videos. Because it's a Wiki that means user contribution is vital in making the list grow. I've started it off with about 50 videos but I know there are many more out there. Complete tip of the cap to BlueGray Sky for the idea.
