to “Read More” or not to “Read More” !!

This, you can say, is the part of my earlier post, “Kind of blogs I hate” !

Though for me all the comments that I recieved are as precious, albeit there is one which I would like to point out:

Hi:

I just failed one item, and that is “Read More�. The reason I do it, is to help bloggers who are short on bandwidth. My first page is very simple, with only one small image to give the reader a hint of what will be covered in the next page where the real stuff is.

It never occurred to me, people would have an issue with one click, but now I know better. Hmmm. What will I do to help those surfing with an Internet speed of 56 KB? I’ll think of something.

The rest of your points are well taken and I agree with all of them.

Just my two cents worth.

Omar.-

Omar, I completely respect what you wrote [so I get to keep these 2 cents]. So I guess I need to come clean on this one.

There is another reason I don’t like “Read More” links, that is apart from me being a fcuking lazy, which is very simple.

Say you keep 10 entries on your main page, each entry having “Read More” link. Now I am just browsing your site and want to read all the entries since I like the text before “Read More” link.

What does that mean ?? I will have to click “Read More” 10 times and not to mention 9 times I’ll have to click “Back” button. That counts to 19 extra clicks for reading 10 articles [going by this calculations, what I wrote in my earlier entry about 1 click, looks like the understatement of the year].

Now instead of that, say you keep latest 5 complete entries on your page. So to read 10 entries I’ll have to click just once more. And I believe loading 10 “Read More” pages would take more time and bandwidth to load as compared to 2 pages with 5 entries each.

This, I agree, is based one simple rule that I follow. If someone is not going to like first 3 lines of your first two entry he/she is not going take pain of reading anymore.

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WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

Kind of blogs I hate !!

I have been reading blogs for more than 3 years now [though I started my own blog very recently]. Over the time, the blogs, people who write them & they way the presentation of blog is decided had came through huge changes.

And over the time the kind of blogs I loath about have also increased phenominally. By “kind of blogs” I mean the way they are presented, I won’t comment on individual writing styles because I don’t feel I am that good in writing myself.

Below is the partial list of kinda blogs I loath to visit second time, even if the content is good:

1. Images. Images. Images. More images. And more images. Damn !!! my browser hogs memory & cpu useage as if I am running a damn DNA-Sequencing kinda program. Why can’t people put images in a seperate page instead of putting everything on main page ??

2. Music. Songs. HELLO !! I thought I am reading a blog or what! If I want to listen music I can do that on my music system !! Or on my system, when all of a sudden I get to hear a new remixed version of “Fast Cars” !! No Thank You !! But I am not interested in LISTENING to the music you like, I am more comfortable reading about it.

3. VIDEOS !!! Do you know how much memory they hog ?? You might be having a system with good config, but not everyone. For that matter not ME EITHER !! Who the heck is interested in seeing what gymnastics your neighbor’s-uncle’s-son’s-daughter’s-dog did yesterday evening !!!

4. “Continue to Read” ??? Why ? I am a lazy fcuking idiot !! I don’t like to use my mouse too much, so why should I do a extra click ?

5. Small Fonts !! What ? You want me to sit with a electron microscope ?? Or do you want expect me to use Hubble Telescope to read your blog ?? Come out of the “8px-is-cool” syndrome !!
Oh! You are thinking you give a damn to what I like or dislike ? Exactly what I want to say !!

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My new dress !!

Thanks to Matt and other great people at wordpress.com, we now have 2 more themes for wordpress.com blogs to play around with.

One of the them is Regulus. Undoubtly one of the best themes available for wordpress that I came across. So after giving much thoughts to it, I decided to switch to Regulus [the one that you see now].

Though, for the move I had to make a few changes [read that sacrifices] to by links. Changes like disabling a few links that had images associated with them, because the images were big enough to fir in the grid. Then I have hunt for some alternate chicklets for some big images that I did not wanted to remove from my link list. But still, unfortunately, I had to let a few go for lack of small & interesting alternate images.
Given I could have just disabled the images and still could have got the plain text-link, but then don’t you think I would have already thought about that ?

But still, I am sticking with Regulus for the time being coz it’s too tempting for me to put aside, and then who the fcuk is complaining !!

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