Posted Elsewhere and the poofing sidebar
I’m trying something new and copying my comments on other weblogs to a new category I set up called “Elsewhere.” This comes after using the stand-alone TrackBack implementation along with a separate weblog to aggregate my comments in a separate section (which no longer exists). The old technique worked, but I wanted to archive the comments and also display them in the context of my other entries. With some inspiration from Kottke, and some help from Compare and ExcludeCategories, my comments will now be published on the homepage (as with the entry directly previous to this one) and archived in my monthly archives along with my regular entries.
While I’m talking new features: I’m also playing around with automatically hiding the sidebar on every page except the homepage. You’re probably not interested in seeing most of its contents every time you visit anyways, and I’d like to keep the design as minimal as possible. So sidebar goes poof. Note that if you want to see it at any time, you can always select the little plus sign (Show sidebar) below the main navigation. I’m a little concerned that new visitors may want to contact me and won’t know how to open the sidebar to find my email, but we’ll see how it goes. A new contact section may be warranted.
Any feedback on these new features is welcome. Have a very happy holiday everyone!
Update: Well, that didn’t go over well. After some more serious thought, I realized that I shouldn’t be grouping comments with entries because they’re so different in nature. Posted Elsewhere will eventually have its own blog, which will also be integrated with the rest of the site, but I can’t say when.
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