All entries for Wednesday 21 December 2005

New home page

Writing about web page http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/

The most obvious change today is the new homepage, I hope you agree that it looks great. It'll be changing again soon with some new graphics with a bit of luck too. Thanks go to Andy, John, Karen and Hannah.

As you can see, there is lots of great new content on the homepage, no longer are you restricted to just clicking to the most recent entries.

• Hot topics is back! This is a much better system than before (thanks to The King of Wales) which ranks entries according to a top secret algorithm that will hopefully show interesting entries on the homepage all the time without the spam
• Top tags are now shown on the homepage, allowing you to quickly see what people are writing about at the moment
• Most recent photos are also on the homepage now as long as you upload your images with "Show in collections" turned on.
• To let new bloggers be found more easily, there is a "New bloggers" link as well which shows entries from blogs created in the last 6 weeks

Let us know what you think, we welcome both praise and feedback on any problems :)

: 21 Dec 2005 11:27 |  Comments (11) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

BlogBuilder update

Update of BlogBuilder today with a few big changes.

• New feature: You can now go into your admin screen and the "Edit tags" section and add definitions to your tags. These will then show up on hovers and at the top of aggregate pages for those tags
• New feature: You can mark your images now as "Show in collections" and they will appear on the new homepage but also on the new images page
• New feature: There is now a view on all entries from new blogs. This view makes it easier for new bloggers to be heard and found.
• Improvement: Hopefully improved performance of a lot of pages because of some back-end work

: 21 Dec 2005 11:20 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem