Comments on: Better Website Usability

By: Teman

Teman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:33:05 +0000

Hi, Nick
i like your blog very much: the design of it and the content. Links and articles that you post very useful for me as for beginner, thank you for that!

I have a question for you: what is the main aim of this blog? How are you going earn from it?

thanks,
Teman

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By: Nick Haslem

Nick Haslem — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:56:01 +0000

Haha!

The theme automatically makes comments no follow. I’m looking for a way to change that.

Yeah I guess I will have to put the sidebar widget in. I would much prefer just a couple of links there, rather than a whole sidebar worth of links.

Emotional needs would be like someone is searching for a fishy poker room because they need the money. The emotional need isn’t just the fact that they need money, it will be an irrational reason. E.g so they can afford to take a girl out on an expensive date so they can get laid.

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Pokerstars Bonus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:29:51 +0000

Take those nofollows off the comment names and I’ll come here more often – haha, j/k!

Anyway, what I was really gonna ask is, can’t you get a sidebar widget installed? Have you tried that? We talked about this the other day and I fully agree with NickM, and I personally don’t think the footer nav is sufficient.

In your article though, I noticed the bold text definitely made it easy to scan the page. Good tips throughout, nice post broski.

Emotional needs, hmmm…like why the bitch wont let you play poker anymore? Is that what you mean?

By: Nick Haslem

Nick Haslem — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:23:09 +0000

Hey Nick,

Yeah that is the issue I’m trying to solve. The Thesis theme functions differently than I’m used to. I don’t like having a sidebar there even though it helps for usability.

I’m going to try and find a solution for the footer. Even an “archives” link that lists all the posts would suit me.

Nick

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:06:32 +0000

I like the simplicity that you are going for on this blog, but it is not easy to use as currently set up. I think you should stick to having a sidebar with links to main categories of posts and best/most popular entries. As it is now, I have no idea how to logically find your past entries.

You can accomplish this easily and simply while keeping the readability of your articles intact. Just think: After I read this article, the only option clear to me is reading the previous post. Maybe you can even accomplish this with one column by adding more options in the footer if you don’t want to add a sidebar.