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Plan B...
I finally gave the redesign a trial run last night â very briefly. Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by my code typos. I set up the front page to hold only the headlines and the most recent six posts. My inclination as a casual surfer would have been to perhaps read the six articles, leave a comment or two, and then move on to the next site, rather than reading Page 1 or Page 2.That still leaves us with the problem of a front page that can lug around 100 articles and 500-600 comments. That's a lot of HTML for somebody's dial-up machine to draw. I've also discovered it's a pain to decide whether some articles are page 1 or page 2. My tentative solution: "AM and PM" editions. When the article count hits, say, 40 or 50, have the site split into Page 1 and Page 2, with the most recent half on Page 1 and the previous half on Page 2. Both pages would carry the day's entire set of headlines. That would halve the page size to be drawn, and though it'd continue to grow, it'd grow at half the rate. Or, which'd be simpler, just start it out like that in the morning... Posted by: Fred 2004-03-24 |
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