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A quick update
Part of the project brief was that comments are important and so far they have proved invaluable. Here’s what I’ve taken away from the last 3 days:
Keeping you informed
This multi-author project is new to everyone, mistakes will be made. Ultimately the buck stops with me (at the moment) so any mistakes live on the site are mine and mine alone, as I am the only one who can make Bites live. I hope you’ll give me a chance to get this right and get more people involved to help make it right.
I am happy to talk about what is not working too well, where things have gone wrong; maybe you can make suggestions how it can be put right. I don’t want sound cheesy but you can help take Bite Size from a good idea to great resource and you can do it via the comments.
A process of review
You will notice a few articles have vanished as a result of feedback, these less than perfect posts were largely due to my trigger happy publishing.
The posts will be back but to keep a Bite a Bite it needs to be quick to read and accurate without the need to read the comments. With that in mind we need to find a mechanism for updating the Bite if the comments say it’s needed; I am working on this one.
More editors are coming
I have 3 more editors lined up as I write, I am hoping to get a few more soon. The first job will be to help me refine the process by which Bites get published, the second job is to help get the message to the authors.
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Mark Otto
: http://markdotto.com
17 April 2006, 12:11 : Permanent link to comment
I think that the site is a great idea, and I like where it is heading. Like you, I think the key is to keep it bite sized, and also keep it within standards. I’m looking forward to more good tips!
laura herald
: http://
17 April 2006, 12:47 : Permanent link to comment
the mechanism you describe sounds more like a wiki than a blog with comments
imho
John Oxton
: http://bitesizestandards.com
17 April 2006, 13:04 : Permanent link to comment
“the mechanism you describe sounds more like a wiki than a blog with comments”
except the author has ultimate control of the Bite.
Joseph Becher
: http://jwebnet.net
17 April 2006, 15:20 : Permanent link to comment
You will notice a few articles have vanished as a result of feedback, these less than perfect posts were largely due to my trigger happy publishing.
So does this mean that the Bites I linked in my Del.icio.us account might now be there? I don’t honestly recall seeing anything wring with them.
Regarding the website, I like it very much and will be reading all of the bites when I get a chance. Great design and idea.
Mark Otto
: http://markdotto.com
17 April 2006, 15:33 : Permanent link to comment
Well, like John said, they are meant to be bites. What I noticed about one article in particular was that it was not bite-sized.
I really like the fact that this is Bite Size Standards. It can be rather annoying to go through an entire essay just to get one idea out of it. This just is easier I think.
John
: http://climaxdesigns.com
17 April 2006, 17:46 : Permanent link to comment
John te;; me something. is this a WP or TX or some other system, or did you hand build it? if you hand built it i have a php comment system that you can ‘hook’ up to this and modify pretty easily that is separate from the article system. meaning if something goes wrong with the article that comments arent lost, or better still it would be easy to reconnet them.
what i do is have a separate database that stores all the comments and the comments are connected to the articles by an id and/or section title. give me an email for more details. i can let you see my database and the comment file so you can see if that is something you would be interested in doing.
Mark Otto
: http://
17 April 2006, 19:05 : Permanent link to comment
Look under the about page – he is using Textpattern. ;)
jacob
: http://www.jacobontwerpt.nl
17 April 2006, 22:28 : Permanent link to comment
If you want to update the bite after relevant comments I’d consider giving the author responsibility for it. Surely you haven’t time to go through all this. Anyway, why don’t I let you run your site the way you want. :)
btw I’m loving the way it is coming together.
trovster
: http://www.trovster.com
18 April 2006, 01:21 : Permanent link to comment
I wondered where one or two articles had vanished to! This is the correct thing to do though, nice one John. Things need to be accurate for people to trust the resources.
David
: http://climaxdesigns.com
18 April 2006, 15:06 : Permanent link to comment
Look under the about page – he is using Textpattern. ;)
you know, i read that but it didnt register.
David
: http://climaxdesigns.com
18 April 2006, 15:07 : Permanent link to comment
Look under the about page – he is using Textpattern. ;)
you know, i read that but it didnt register., what you could do , if TP doesnt already, is create a row in the database and set it as active, then in the code, make something like if(active){ display relevent comment}
kester
: http://justkz.com
21 April 2006, 03:48 : Permanent link to comment
Hi John,
It would be handy if you could implement the ol’ highlight-comments-from-the-author trick for comment replys. Would be especially good if you could have it so that all authors on the site have their comments highlighted, even if they didn’t author the bite.
It would be good to be able to see immediately what’s likely to be a constructive comment from you experts, instead of filtering through lots of comments saying “thanks!” – not that there’s anything wrong with that…you know.
Great work though, to everyone involved, gets me very excited when a new one o’ these comes in through Bloglines!
Prabhath Sirisena
: http://nidahas.com
21 April 2006, 05:38 : Permanent link to comment
kester, we do highlight comments from all BSS authors – it’s very subtle though. Their names appear a bit darker, and the gravatar has a brown border instead of the light green.
kester
: http://justkez.com
21 April 2006, 06:24 : Permanent link to comment
Ho, okay :/
Not showing up any differently here – just had a look at Juan’s comments on his Automatic Row Colouring article, and I don’t see the broken border. I do, however, now notice the slight difference in colouring, it didn’t show up on my laptop screen, but comes through a bit better on the LCD. Might be nice if it was a touch clearer!
Good job on the design through, very solid.
david
: http://http://climaxdesigns.com
21 April 2006, 18:34 : Permanent link to comment
im actually not seeing any difference either in author remarks and user remarks, thought Kester i dont understand your reasoning here
“what’s likely to be a constructive comment from you experts, instead of filtering through lots of comments saying “thanks!””
are you saying that the authors are experts in their feild? because they dont claim to be and also that user comments are fairly usless? i dont think they are, often times the users may indeed have more experience and can add useful commentary as seen in the automatic colored tables article
kester
: http://justkez.com
22 April 2006, 05:37 : Permanent link to comment
I think you’re reading a little too much into it, david : )