Fine Tuning
I have been fine tuning the website for the past few hours. Here is a list of some changes I made.
>> Formated the recently updated page and some other pages by placing necessary styling tags to the external style sheet
>> As senn suggested, I amended the creative commons content licensing note on the footer, to exclude from it contents from external websites.
>> Changed the default display of List page to sort by age, by ascending order. This way it would show youngest blogs first, which makes more sense, and goes better with the recently updated entry page.
>> I made an extras page, where some documentation about blogging (as simon suggested), and the blog export tool is placed. This page also has a little banner (by ayesh) with some html code for the users to link mvblogosphere from their blogs. (discussed with simon whether to have the image on mvblogs.org or to let the user save it on their host). I think if a user knows how to place some html code, they would know how to save an image as well? what do you think? Meanwhile keep on suggesting on what else may go on the extras page
>> I also got ayesh (who originally created the linkingdot logo, which she used colors taken from maldivian blogs) to make five variations of it and wrote a very tiny randomizing script to display it randomly each time the page reloads.
>> Also some typographic fine tuning has done on the blog template with the help of ayesh.
>> Senn and I thought that we should make initial page to point the recentlyupdated page.. so may be we need to put this tag header(”Location: http://mvblogs.org/recentlyUpdated.php”); which senn suggested on to the index page, during the launching. (before cutting the ribbon;)
>> I will edit the about page today sometime.
>> Also senn and I are thinking of launching the site friday early morning 00:00MVT.
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Shahee, a little suggestion for the stylesheet. I think it will look more cleaner if you add some line spacing for the body element:
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 16px;
}
You are right, when leading space is increased (in px or relatively), it becomes cleaner but a bit difficult to read. So, for the time being before fine tuning all the typographic elements, I will keep it as it is now.
I have fixed the invalid character code displaying problem. With a little help from a function by someone else after doing a little diggin g on the Internet, I found PHP function that converts all Unicode characters to Unicode HTML entities. Now the title and entry fields in the recently updated page will be all displayed in Unicode HTML entities, not to mention Wadde’s Hindi post too.