So far, I’m getting great feedback. I am going to start using the “extended entry option”. Now I can have multiple entries on the homepage, and you won’t miss anything if you happen to not read one day (or over the weekend) and the page won’t be a mile long (less scrolling).
So you’ll notice there is a link that says “continue reading XYZ”, click that to view the complete entry and leave comments.
Today I’ve tried to make the individual entries section a little more manageable. But I can’t get the menu placed on top of the page. I think this is because I am calling a PHP event on a page that gets coded to HTML (PHP events don’t run in HTML). So I have to figure out a way to get movebleTYPE to save the individual archive pages as PHP pages instead of HTML pages. –sigh–
Another problem, when I send photos from my phone, it places them into an images directory in the Airblog subfolder, but when the index page calls the PHP event, it keeps the absolute address (/images/image_name.jpg) instead of giving it a static address (http://airblog.noiseinsidemyhead.com/images/image_name.jpg). So now I have to figure out how to fix that. (Jung…?)
And finally, Internet Explorer has problems with “refresh”. If you view the site through IE and then click the “refresh”, the main image gets way small (technical term). You have to click inside the browser url and hit enter. My suggestion, stop using IE and get on the Mozilla Firefox train. It’s a much better browser for most of your surfing needs.
Mike, you can change the file extension of the archive pages in the Movable Type control panel. Just switch the extensions of the archives from .html to .php and you should be able to call your includes as needed.
For the airblog issue, there should be a way in the Airblog control panel to assign a URL to the image call before it encodes it and sends it on to your blog. Either that or a quick fix would be to set up a subdomain (airblog.nimh.com) where the root directory is public_html/airblog or whatever it is on yoru site. Then make sure you are always pointing to the subdomain in your link tags.
For the main image thing, that shouldn’t be a browser issue since it’s all done on the server side. Send me the script you’re using and I’ll take a look.
Also, I’m personally not down with the extended entry thing. It’s easier for me to use my mouse wheel to scroll down than drag the mouse over to “Continue” link and then click on it. I realize laptop users probably don’t have a scroll wheel, so whatever though. And you will be generating an extra pageview on your clickthroughs.
I use a laptop and it is easier to use the arrow keys or space bar to scroll page than it is to use the extended entry thing.