Browser issues first; Kiya, any difference for you? What are you using, if not?
Organisation;
Some thing I’ve noticed, is that we use the posts as a forum– these are conversations. That’s all very well, but it’s difficult to keep track of which convo you’ve gotten back to, and where you asked the question that hasn’t yet been answered– or has it? Me, I’m confused and a little frustrated this morning!
That’s the difference between a blog and a forum, see. Forums are designed to facilitate discussions… They let users know what’s going on. And I’d feel like I could leave for a bit, and yanno… write…
And there are several ways to add forum capabilities into POM, if y’all are willing to let me experiment. As far as I can tell, I could convert all comments to forum threads– each thread connected to its parent post. What I’ll do, is try it on the experimental version of this site, with a copy of this database. If I make it work, everyone can take a gander and decide yes or no…
Organising The Work
There are several other ways to organise pages and archives, and there has got to be something that will gives us better control and flexibility! If I change that it will most likely mean re-doing the order all over again. But it will make interleaving much easier.
Tags And Categories
They are great things! We can tag and categorise posts and pages alike. Check out the “display click tags” link under the posting field, if you haven’t already. Anyone of us can add new tags, and add new categories, and anything can be posted under more than one category.
And have we got greenjudie’s lj posts in yet? I could do them right now…
I also need to have some of my early lj posts added to the Research/resin section also, I think there’s tidbits that could be reference or yanked whole. I sent that to you as an lj pm I thnk?
LEt me know if I need to resend.
Oh yes, and BTW—THIS IS WORKING GREAT ALREADY< I CAN:T TELL YOU HOW HUUUGE THIS IS FOR IMPROVING WRITING ALREADY!! THANK YOU STELLA!!
(big schmooshy hugs))
Me, too. I’m trying to catch up on all the current conversations now that I’m back from work, and I’m not sure that I caught everything. A forum would be unspeakably sweet.
Hey Stella,
In answer to your question about browser compatibility, every time I’ve tried to open the pages in IE, they’ve not worked properly. You might try checking any alterations you make against multiple browsers. It’s the only way I’ve found to make sure things work across the board.
However, the pages all work fine in Mozilla, which is the browser I actually us on my home laptop.