Speed Skate World- By Peter Doucet- Online Since 1999

New Layout- It Works

5 Responses to “New Layout- It Works”

1. ken wood, on March 8th, 2008 at 11:08 am Said:

   Peter,
   I like the new format but miss all the jpegs and videos.
   Maybe a link to get at all of those juicy morsels at once.

   BTW: we are really making progress on out project in CA. About to do a deal with AEG.

2. momo, on March 8th, 2008 at 1:22 pm Said:

   C’est gay!!!!!! pis pas lisible pis Brian est d’accord avec moi!!!!!!!!!! alors change ca

3. Cor, on March 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm Said:

   Hmm. I think your column with the articles needs to be bigger and be the focus. Once you start scrolling down there is alot of wasted space. Just feedback man. Love the simple colors though!!

4. Andrew Love, on March 9th, 2008 at 8:59 pm Said:

   Peter,

   welcome to wordpress! it is an awesome blogging platform…

   Here are a couple of my unordered thoughts from my many years of wrestling with wordpress…

   1. Keep the 3 column look… you need the flexibility it offers with what you are attempting… fall in love with wordpress widgets!!!

   2. try increasing the font size in the center column by 1 or 2 points, just to see how it looks..

   3. Use the page tabs you have at the top, make lots of pages, but I am sure you will be doing that.. . put the info you now have at the top left column in a page, its a waste of valuable column space there.. put “recent comments” there.. its more important to show your large community of readers at work..

   4. Add a link at the bottom of the central column to let people keep browsing, there is none, to read back posts, they have to go to the archives..

   5. You can import all your old posts!!!! its possible, and you really should! it will help your blogs technorati rankings! and all the incoming links from elsewhere will still have google relevance..

   6. hits is a useless & offensive stat.. kill it.. a first time visitor to this blog might create 50 hits with one click.. VISITORS is much better…

   7. there are several rotating ad banner wordpress widgets out there… email me for the one I use.. I can’t remember right now….

   8. Install spam karma 2, but since this blog is not overrun with viagra ads, I bet you already have it..

   9. use the translation widget, mine gets a lot of traffic..

   10. use the “buy me a beer” widget.. You will get more donations that way.. Look at the top 30 blogs on the internet, and mimic their ad strategy, look to those making a true business out of blogging… you can too…

   11. what is with the incredibly tiny smiley face bout 30 pixels to right of the “browse SSS” drop down menu??? awesome!!! I love stuff like that..

   12. I don’t like your header graphic, I know what you are trying to communicate, and the idea is great, but it’s too busy, and makes it hard to read your blog title.. simple is better… You have the idea, you just need the ideal image collage to say it..

   13. you write ” Thanks to everyone supporting Speed Skate World and my dreams of racing and reporting from the front line and beyond” I want to see reporting from “beyond”!! yeah!!!

   14. I don’t know if you have played with the style.css file, but that is where some major coolness lies, but back it up!!! you can kill your website!! I have…

   15. Never give up Peter!!!

   this is one of the best speedskating websites out there, and I read every post you make like a happy kid on christmas morning!!!

5. peterdoucet, on March 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm Said:

   Hey Andrew- thanks for the golden advice- I saved your comment and I’ll be looking at each point and suggestions that you made!.

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