Day 10 – Declutter Your Sidebar

Day 10 – Declutter Your Sidebar August 19, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in Blog Challenge, learning, miniLegends.
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Please check our Blog Challenge page to see notes of our journey.

We came into the challenge on Day 19 so this is where we started.

Today we went through the first 19 tips and decided to start on a couple of them.
There are some things we don’t need in the sidebar.

we got rid of the about page but because we hace a static welcome
page we can still make the ‘about’ text in the sidebar shorter – people
haven’t got time for a lot of words and some links are on the ‘Home’
page – LESS is MORE
the box.com storage site widget is filtered in SA. It was an experiment but needs to be removed
‘Meta’ needs to stay there so we can easily login
There are too many ‘Categories’ and we can link to these in other
posts especially if we can make one post stick to the top of all the
others
To help visitors (and us) navigate we could add ‘Recent Comments’
One idea is to (later on) cut and paste all the comments on the ‘Welcome’ page in a subpage – we haven’t decided on this yet
we can add more colour and useful headings – we might decide to do this on our ‘Blog Challenge’ page

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