I believe that by the time you came to my Lab, you had already read many other blogs.
Have you noticed that some blogs only display excerpts of their entries on the index page, and require you to click on “Read more…” to read the full post?
Tai Tran’s Lab saves you the additional clicks to reach full articles. Here, full entries are displayed so you don’t have to do the heavy job of clicking around for navigation.
However, if you click on a post’s title to go to the single page of the article, you will be able to:
View and add comments to the article
Have more options to add the article to social bookmarks sites, whereas only the most common options are available on the index page
Save the post as PDF file
Email the post to your friends
Print the post
The reason these options are not available on index page is because they will make it heavier for the page to load.
What do you think?
Please let me know your opinion of these services and where I should put these options so I can improve my site to match your needs. Furthermore, do you recommend any functionalities that are currently not supported here?
Always use standard HTML. This helps when transferring content from one platform to another. XML exists to separate format from content, exploit it.
Keep away from rich-text editors. They produce crap codes.
When copying text from Microsoft Word, pay attention to the smart quotes. By default, Word automatically replaces “straight quotes” with a pair of “smart quotes”. The issue with smart quotes is that they are not displayed consistently through different web formats. To disable this feature in Word 2007: Menu \ Word Options \ Proofing \ AutoCorrect Options \ AutoFormat As You Type \ unselect the “”Straight quotes” with “smart quotes”" indicator.
Permalink
If the permalink contains date, do not edit timestamp of posts or the URLs will break. If you have to change the date, keep the old article, write a new one and redirect from the old post to the newly written. Otherwise, if you can live without the date in your permalink, don’t use it.
“Ending a page with .html helps improving Google PR” is possibly a myth or with their old algorithm.
Categories and Tags
Try to put posts in only one category. Don’t make visitors feel that they always see the same posts in every category.
Tagging can be a temptation, but the question is whether it’s worth the efforts to manage. It works perfectly when more than one person is tagging content. If it’s just single-blogger, it turns into a big cloud of decorative rather than helping visitors finding information.
Reading
Make sure content is loaded before the sidebar. Visitors can read first before the whole page has been loaded.
Breaking an entry into multiple pages may give you more traffic, at the price of visitors’ tiredness and frustration.
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