What is Digg?49 Comments
- habibbijan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26For most people, I'd say it's much more important to create quality content on your site rather than spent time endlessly worrying about design.
Plus, they all look the same in RSS readers, anyway. - Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11I'm getting tired of people dropping their links in digg comments
- cgomez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm a huge fan of quality content. Most bloggers need to work on that first.
- byosko, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I'm a huge supporter of (a) quality and unique blog designs and (b) redesigning when you need a change / need to improve things, etc.
- mvandemar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I know what you mean... I'm always seeing THIS ***** link:
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/ - Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7I don't know about "a small amount of time", suxmonkey, in my experience redesigns take quite a a bit of work and quite a while as well
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5blog redesign?
1. don't copy other people design
2. focus on content
3. don't place too much ads. I really hate it
4. be honest. don't duplicate other blog content and claim it was your work. give your own opinion. - blenden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's all about making the first impression, if your site's design is shabby, the visitor won't stay long enough to read your posts
- GerryBot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Agreed - how many knee-jerk bloggers will go out now and redesign just to squeeze out a bit of extra traffic or to get a few dollars more ad revenue? Darren's redesign was long overdue and probably a long time in the conception and design, but Chow's redesign is fugly.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You know the new comment system is going to have a feature called reply!
- dinostabOMG, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6This is an article about how to use a wasteful trick to generate empty hype. Buried.
- marcz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Pointless article. And terrible examples.
- svenjick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Both redesigns are worse in terms of readability (clogged up with publicity), which associated with content, are the two key dimensions I seek for in a good article.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4buried as spam, this article is written by captain obvious :p
- Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I'm assuming if you can write a post that means you can read? The only similarity that article has to this one is the fact that both mention Problogger's redesign.
Your points: decluttering, visibility of important content, and more exposure for ads (3 total but really one main point)
These points: Buzz, Linkbait, Cure's Ad Blindness (somewhat similar), Refreshing, More Room (somewhat similar) so not only does this one have two extra points, it also covers another redesign you didn't even mention.
You should really be more careful when you throw around accusations like that. - podjah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2agreed
- svivian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Comment dugg down for "i could careless" instead of "i couldn't care less"
- okokitsme, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3The thing is that a vast amount of bloggers and blog-readers use feeds to read posts, so we often don't even notice changest in templates or redesignings unless mentioned in a post!
- ardnut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You "could" care less? then why are you complaining then?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5How about redesign your server to withstand a digg affect?
- michaelinnotts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The only problem is a lot of loyal readers get annoyed at blog redesigns; the readers of Gawker blogs are an excellent example.
- Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Still up here...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what is RSS? some new hip web 2.0 word you youngsters are saying?
- sensibledriver, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Holy Christ...that site is so completely ***** and they are commenting on other sites?
- lifewithryan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I think for your average blogger, (read not a "big name" in the blogosphere), there aren't many affordable hosting options that can withstand the digg effect. Many of us have fixed bandwidth and would get charged for going over that limit, which is not very affordable either depending how far they go over and for how long. We can't all afford multiple instances, clustered services and load balancers. That's not to say there aren't measure one can take to perhaps last a little longer, but if the average Joe gets "dugg" its basically going to be one big DDOS attack.
Just my 2 bytes... - dansmeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1because i care about free thought and the millions of dynamic viewpoints presented and made accessible via blog.
but as far as how it looks? pleaaasee.....
i'm complaining that people should be making blogs to voice whatever they want to voice. not to generate traffic and get mentioned for cool "web design"
and yes.... my fault on the grammar usages. careless care less. ty - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6Face it - no one reads your ***** blog anyway.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Imagine that - something taking quite a lot of work AND time!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3this coming from a site that uses a free blog design themselves.
- petewhite, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4I think better hosting is more important than a redesign.
- svivian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4This whole article is useless. Everyone knows the benefits of any site redesign, there's absolutely nothing new here. Buried.
- HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Blogs should focus, obviously, on readability more than anything else, and a unique but useful way of accessing information, e.g. based on relevancy, popularity, similarity, etc. The design isn't so much as important as the first thing, readability. Making the ads blend is also very important (though plenty of Fx users block ads anyways). The content is a given, of course.
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2This blog is powered by Wordpress.
- X111, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Meh, site down.
- podjah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1you are a tool
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25. Profit?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2"It's definitely easy to forget that a small amount of time spent redesigning can be as important as a lot of work on any one high-quality post."
Evidence for this please! - amerz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Speaking of blog redesign... Perez Hilton desperately needs one.
http://www.amymahon.com/blog/?p=49 - dansmeek, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3bleh. a blog is a blog, there is no design. benefits a blogs webpage? i could careless. how about benefits of writing a better blog. i'd rather see improved writing quality before improved design.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4I agree and also since you are playing to your fanbase anyway, mixing it up can keep your loyal followers feeling like they are on the cutting edge.
- stewie814, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2minor changes do not amount to a "redesign". stop making mountains out of molehills.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Wow, didn't notice John Chow's new layout. Looks great.
- suxmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4It's definitely easy to forget that a small amount of time spent redesigning can be as important as a lot of work on any one high-quality post.
- thevoidzero, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Site is dead!
- inlove, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Dude WTH? This guy stole my post http://bloggingbits.com/things-to-consider-in-a-blog-redesign/
He got cookies and I get nothing! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2but it gets such good publicity!
tell me, is it better than buying votes or manipulating digg to the point where 1% of the users choose most of the front page stories? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4so are blog sites with dynamic data officially the end all be all of web 2.0++ ?
what about content sites that serve a single function? for instance, this popular free music album:
http://www.extlabs.com/yourinfamousharp/
im kind of getting tired of blogs in general... im more interested in the things that dont require constant supervision and redesigns.
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