a suggestiong of a new way to post that willresolve some issues with some new code, and a call for thoughts concerning this plan. all WCI members are requested to read and give input.
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now that I have figured out the whole expanding post thing (that "read more!" link that you see after every post now), I feel it important to reccomend a new protocol for posting. my proposal is this: a brief intro to your piece which will show on the main page telling the reader what they can expect from your piece. then if they wish to read the story from start to finish they merely click the read more button.
think of it like the back of a book.
a major advantage is that each story will now have a very small footprint on the main page, making is possible to display far more stories on the main page than ever before.
the disadvantage is that we might not want to shove our stories into a tiny one to four sentence capsule, or have the reader judge our stories before they read them.
any questions or issues? I'll be glad to answer/resolve them. otherwise, please discuss...
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Proposal: Posting Protocol
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4 comments:
Excellent Joel! Especially helpful for those of us with long pieces.
sounds like a good idea to me
sounds good. I think alternatively, an author could chose to hook his or her readers with an opening paragraph .
But how do we "collapse" our posts?
re: robyns question
when you click the "read more" button it should open in a new tab or window, so collapsing is not applicable. simply close the tab/window.
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