Morgan Carey's Blog: Blog Planning

the image uploading is WAY to complicated for the end user, need to adapt some of the features or remove them to make it much more obvious. Read Full Post

We really should limit the amount of posts that show up in the mainpage - of course there should be some sort of archiving function for each category as well so that the category sections dont get full to. Perhaps we could do it by date with a timestamp or something, even still what if a category gets more than a 100 entries in a month? Perhaps we could pageinate the listings in the monthy archive so that there is proper spiderability. Read Full Post

I am not even sure If I want to have the external links now that we have the post specific links - but for now we should keep them and be able to edit them. Perhaps that we be a good place to list other REW blogs. Read Full Post

We should be able to show or hide the blog categories in the blogs. By default the categories should be set to show but there should be an option in the category manager to "hide" a category.

This being said, these categories and the posts within them still should be spiderable - thus we need to create some sort of sitemapping or archiving system so that search engine spiders and users can still find the category posts. Read Full Post

We need to have the ability to post unique links on each post made in our blogs - these links should be able to be added during the post, or added later and we need to be able to edit them whenever we want.

To add a link, there should be a text field for title, url and description. Read Full Post

I have to make sure we have RSS feeds available for the REW blogs - i wonder what other cool features for syndication I should pack into this thing. Read Full Post

Right now after you create a post, it posts it and then you are given just a "visit your blog" link - I think the backend should have options like - "Publish and continue working" or publish and view page etc - going to have to get some feedback on this as I am not sure if it is just me or this would be cool :) Read Full Post

One of the cool features of the REW blog are the smilies, I think it would be good for V2 to be able to import new smilies, or maybe just compile a library of smilies that users can choose on setup or maybe afterwards, I dunno Read Full Post