Comments on: How browsable is your blog? http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/ web • content • marketing • navigation • seo • social media Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Heidi Cool http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-49008 Heidi Cool Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:44:02 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=553#comment-49008 Thanks Tom! WordPress really has evolved into a pretty robust system. I can see using it for sites as large as several hundred pages so long as the content is carefully organized. I still want to find the time to learn Drupal, but WordPress can well serve a significant niche--and the ease-of-use for the site owner is a nice perk. It's a particularly good fit for small biz. At sometime I also want to experiment with WordPress MU, though I've heard rumors suggesting that WP may make MU the defacto product, thus giving everyone a more robust feature set. By: Tom Salzer http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-48237 Tom Salzer Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:51:54 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=553#comment-48237 Heidi, how kind and gracious you are! I often deploy WordPress as a simple CMS for small organizations who do not need a lot of depth. Drupal and Joomla are industrial-strength engines compared to WP, but it is surprising how a WP instance can be crafted to become more like a static website and less of a blog. It somewhat depends on the theme selected, but if a group wants non-technical folks to maintain content on a relatively shallow site, WP is hard to beat. By: Heidi Cool http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-47886 Heidi Cool Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:03:21 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=553#comment-47886 <p>Ari,<br /> Thanks for sharing that link, I've noticed that page before, and it is a handy way to present a variety of options for readers. And when you click through to specific categories. it also offers a good example of a blog that uses article excerpts rather than full posts. </p> <p>Tom,<br /> I focused on MT and WP because I have more experience with those, but you're right I should have mentioned Drupal and Joomla when I was referring to the variety of platforms available. It's hard to find the time to learn all of them, but Drupal is on my list of platforms to get to know better. And as open-source CMS's they are also quite popular, so you are probably not the only reader using one of them. </p> <p>Thanks for mentioning your <a href="http://www.tomsalzer.net/sitemap.html" rel="nofollow">TomSalzer.net sitemap page</a>. It provides a nice gateway to your content, and I like how cleanly it is laid out. Between you and Ari I think we're off to a great start on seeing all the different ways bloggers can enhance the navigation experience.</p> <p>I just took a look at the source code and saw you are generating that with <a href="http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">Sitemap Generator Plugin for Wordpress</a>. I think I may have to give that a try on one of the blog projects I'm working on now. It seems like a particularly good option for those who are using WP as a CMS that combines both static pages and blog entries.</p> <h5>Happy New Year!</h5> Ari,
Thanks for sharing that link, I've noticed that page before, and it is a handy way to present a variety of options for readers. And when you click through to specific categories. it also offers a good example of a blog that uses article excerpts rather than full posts.

Tom,
I focused on MT and WP because I have more experience with those, but you're right I should have mentioned Drupal and Joomla when I was referring to the variety of platforms available. It's hard to find the time to learn all of them, but Drupal is on my list of platforms to get to know better. And as open-source CMS's they are also quite popular, so you are probably not the only reader using one of them.

Thanks for mentioning your TomSalzer.net sitemap page. It provides a nice gateway to your content, and I like how cleanly it is laid out. Between you and Ari I think we're off to a great start on seeing all the different ways bloggers can enhance the navigation experience.

I just took a look at the source code and saw you are generating that with Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress. I think I may have to give that a try on one of the blog projects I'm working on now. It seems like a particularly good option for those who are using WP as a CMS that combines both static pages and blog entries.

Happy New Year!
]]> By: Tom Salzer http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-47841 Tom Salzer Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:25:37 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=553#comment-47841 Interesting and useful post. I just revised my personal blog because it had become bloated with features, so I made the whole thing simpler. Doing that also mean doing away with the WordPress monthly archives...but as you suggest, my sitemap has all posts listed by category, and I use that quite a bit. I'm curious why you featured MT and WP but not other platforms that can be used as blogs like Drupal and Joomla. I use WP because in my busy life, it is easy to use and the codebase is well maintained, but I also use Drupal and Joomla for other projects, and occasionally one of those is a blog. By: Ari Herzog http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-browsable-is-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-47678 Ari Herzog Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:45:32 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=553#comment-47678 If you scroll over to my blog's archive page -- <a href="http://ariwriter.com/archive" rel="nofollow">http://ariwriter.com/archive</a> -- you can click into categories, months, and/or the last 100 posts. I visit that archive frequently. http://ariwriter.com/archive -- you can click into categories, months, and/or the last 100 posts. I visit that archive frequently.]]>