Comments on: The Dear Author ReBoot

By: MB (Leah)

MB (Leah) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:28:04 +0000

I just posted and the preview didn’t work for me either. I submitted the comment and the edit thingy seems to be working though.

By: Anion

Anion — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:38:47 +0000

Ahh. Thanks! Is that new, or am I really that embarrassingly forgetful?

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:06:57 +0000

@Anion: You have to click on the commenter's name to go directly to their post. @Shiloh Walker: Hmm. I thought it was working. I'll have to look into it.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:21 +0000

I still can’t get the preview to work. Is it just me???

By: Anion

Anion — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:24:26 +0000

Oh, dear.

I used to be able to click on a particular comment in the “Recent comments” box, and it would take me directly to that comment. Now it just takes me to the top of the post and I have to scroll down and try to find where I let off/where the comment is.

It’s not a huge deal, but I liked it better when I could go directly to the comment I clicked.

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:31:14 +0000

I loved it! Tres nifty.

By: Karen Scott

Karen Scott — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:57:53 +0000

I love it!

By: Leeann Burke

Leeann Burke — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:27:17 +0000

Jane, the site looks fabulous.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:41:53 +0000

Is anybody else having problems with the preview feature?

By: Jenyfer Matthews

Jenyfer Matthews — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:25:19 +0000

Lovely! I love Croco Designs – Frauke is a genius :)

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:25:58 +0000

What do we think of the What You See Is What You Get comment editor instead of the quicktags?Â You can’t use the Preview button (presumably because this is what your comment would look like anyway).Â It has spell check (nice) and a full screen (also nice).Â Thoughts?

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:27:35 +0000

I’ll fix the comments. Keep the suggestions coming. Some I can change and some, not so much.

By: Mary-Frances Makichen

Mary-Frances Makichen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:36:31 +0000

Love it, great job!

By: LinM

LinM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:31:48 +0000

I like most of it. The pages do load quickly which is a real pleasure.

I do have 2 complaints; one minor and one that bothers me more.

The “skies of blue” (orannia #64) is startling on my screen. If the designers could see it through my eyes, that colour would be verboten.

But my real complaint is the same as Ann Somerville’s (#62). I would like the numbers to appear at the top of the comment instead of vertically centered. I was reading the comments on “Does an Author Have to Live It to Write It?”. For some of the longer texts, the numbers appear 3 screens down. I’m a mono-tasker; I like to recognize the start of a new comment, the author, and the comment number before I read the text. But when Robin posts (except for comment #1), the numbers appear many screens down. The numbering cue interrupts the comment instead of prefacing it.

By: meanne

meanne — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:58:52 +0000

A few hours ago I commented that with my browser Opera 6.2, there was a wide space between the left side entries and the right side ones..( See Post no. 41 )

Now it’s all good!! Thanks for fixing this!

Keep up the great work on this fantastic blog!!

By: orannia

orannia — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:43:58 +0000

I like it (and I’m so not a change-happy person :) It feels more roomy too! Oh, and I’m seeing shades of green… (and skies of blue….sorry, the song just started playing in my head :)

By: KMont

KMont — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:59:16 +0000

First impressions: I thought the site was broken. Then I immediately thought yall must have done an upgrade. Then I immediately thought after that that I liked the old layout much better because the site still looked broken to me. Then I thought shad up, ya twit, you’ll get used to it, you were simply used to the old one.

I don’t even remember what the Smart Bitches site looked like before their upgrade this year, :) and I’m sure this one will soon gel together in my blog brain stem with all the others I visit daily. It does seem to load faster.

By: Ann Somerville

Ann Somerville — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54:45 +0000

@Robin:
I liked the blue too, but maybe it was a little bright.

The gray header for comments is so subtle (at least on my iBook screen) that I keep scrolling past it when I’m looking for the end/start of posts – an effect exacerbated by the comment number being centred against the text. May I suggest you either deepen the header colour to make it more definite, or move the number to align with the top of texts?

The functionality of the site is great, and I shall be looking into some of your clever plugins, esp maintenance mode.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:57:39 +0000

WOW! It loads so much faster. I love it!

I also love Frauke, she’s been my design Goddess for a few years now, and she always thinks of everything.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:34:51 +0000

@Chicklet: I hadn’t thought of creating a tag cloud page, but I will do that right now. I redid the tag cloud so that it showed the most popular tags.