Site Updates – Better Navigation
I spent some time this evening making some changes to the site that have been on my mind for awhile. With another project I’m doing, I was finally comfortable enough with MySql to tackle the blog.
Now in the sidebar, are three more boxes with interesting data. First, there is a “What’s Hot” box that shows 5 posts, with the date of the last comment. Hopefully this will help everyone see where people are discussing posts on the site.
There is a box below that which shows the Top 10 Pages. This simply pulls data from my Mint installation and shows the 10 pages (right now also including the homepage and the blog itself). Once again, this is meant as a way to for everyone to see where most people are going on the site.
Finally, there is a box below that which shows the top 5 commented posts of all time.
If you have any other suggestions for the site, I’d love to hear them. Also, if you are interested in implementing something similar on your site, post a comment and we’ll follow up with that!
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I just wanted to add that I have now updated the “Top 10 Posts” so that the homepage and the blog itself don’t show up in the list, just the posts on the site.
Also, the “What You’re Saying” now shows the 5 newest comments, with a link to the post itself. Before this, this box showed the newest posts with comments, but people who commented on an old post wouldn’t show up here. So it wasn’t that practical.
Last change, the “Comment Preview” area below here when clicking the “Preview” button, now works properly again. This was kinda broken in Safari 3 because it was always visible, even before you clicked the button. It is now hidden until you click the “Preview” button, as it should be.
Let me know if you can think of anything else, or if you find a bug on the site.