Just noticed…

The University of South Florida using my old theme for a bunch of blogs. Way cool.

This will surely help me get into the top 1000 bloggers on technorati, which is one of my goals for 2006.

About the Author, Dan Cameron:

I'm the owner and solution engineer at Sprout Venture, a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

If you're in need of some web development, web design or custom WordPress plugins and/or themes contact me, I'll be happy to discuss it with you.

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  • nstryker
    it's about time.
  • Dan
  • JaredB
    I wasn't really complaining, the only reason I commented at all was after Nathan's, since it seemed that it contradicted what I thought he thought/said before, so I just wanted to nag him about it.

    Feel free to do it if you want, I'm not going to try and talk you out of it.
  • Dan
    So instead of complaining what's your brilliant suggestion? You just said "click here" are descriptive and there is no way I'm going to put link 1 link 2 and so on.

    Why try to be so "compliant" when there are other things you could worry about, like making fun of how Nathan still isn't on wordpress.

    And, it is a good idea because it DOESN'T matter, whether you see one link or multiple links.
  • JaredB
    Yes, I get the point of what it's about, although I don't really think it's that great of an idea since there's nothing to indicate that there are multiple links unless the user goes and mouses over all the different letters.

    As for being accessible to the blind, the rest of your blog (at least the primary parts - the posts and the comments) are accessible (from the WP default at least) as long as you haven't done anything to break it. (Ironically, Nathan's comment system is not, but I've already done enough Nathan prodding in this post).

    But, since we're already on the subject, I remember you saying that about the AOL design before, but I do also remember you commenting specifically on the non-descriptive link text and it's negative (or at least ineffective) effects on search engines, both of which apply here. Links on individual letters are not "descriptive", unless you take them in context with what's around them, in which case "click here" would also be considered "descriptive". :)
  • nstryker
    and a million times over, i don't care about link text breaking google, i care about link text that makes no damn sense and is aol sentric. i had to add "click here" to so much shit when i was producing content for aol and it's driven me bonkers.
  • nstryker
    i like it conceptually, to make the point like dan was saying. i just wish there was a way to do it and have it "work" in a screen reader. it's a very visual/mouseover responcive technique.
  • Dan
    How could 10 "click here"'s be better? The point is not to give you a link to each site, that's stupid, the point is to show there are a lot and each one doesn't matter.

    As for the blind; it's sad not to care that much, since the rest of my blog wouldn't work anyways (most likely), so why should I concearn myself with multi-linked words rather then the most obvious of others.
  • JaredB
    You like it? Is this coming from the same Nathan who criticizes non-descriptive link text for breaking Google??? Even "click here" is better than "f" or "o" or "r"...

    I agree on the blind thing by the way.
  • nstryker
    nice! i really like the whole linking-of-different-parts-of-a-description-to-different sites thing, but it's ever so not nice to blind people. i've never found a decent work around.
  • Dave Z
    my first congrats didn't show up when I wrote about the links
  • Dan
    1109. Couple hundred more links should do it.
  • Dave Z
    congrats DanO!
  • Dave Z
    you are at 1019 as of right now
  • Dave Z
    Congrats! That is very cool!
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