Something you should have noticed of recent is that I’ve been using asides. Asides just takes a category and separates it from other posts, or your main posting category. Since I strictly use tags to categorize my posts it’s easy, I have two wordpress cats; asides and general. General goes to the main page (where you might be reading this post). The asides category just gets separated from my “general” posts and is even listed outside of the previous posts list into a special asides box, you can see it on the homepage. Seperating the categories almost creates two blogs in one.
And that is why I love it so much. Asides lets me post so much, since I can separate my posts I don’t have to worry about burying “good” posts with commentary or link posts. So viewers of the homepage will see what I deem as more “important” before they see what is less “important”. And this is why I changed from the previous scheme, I hated to post after an already good post; symbolically I was pushing them aside (get it?), that’s why I would go days without posting anything. Now I can push “aside” the posts I want.
Hence aside. Pronounced uh-sides not A-sides…I think.
The problems:
RSS users will be updated with all posts in chronological order and won’t even notice the difference. This might be good for the people who don’t like the asides layout but still contradicts what I said before; I still am burying posts with asides in RSS.
Home page viewers might not even notice the asides, something I don’t mind if they are new because I rather have them see the “good” post anyways. But returning visitors who don’t notice the asides, won’t notice I’ve updated my blog and posted some content I did want them to see, eh-em Nathan. This could be solved with a different layout which I’m contemplating and figuring out now.
Suggestions? Examples? I really like BinaryBonsai’s new theme but I will not be doing that much work, I’m sticking with squible and just hacking the S- out of it.
