Comments on: Dooce 5.0

By: dan

dan — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:30:31 +0000

Hey Jon, would you consider making the dooce.com archive templates publicly available, like so (http://danwinckler.com/blog/templates/)? I’d like to see how you did the Monthly Archives page (http://www.dooce.com/archives.html). Thanks.

By: dj blurb

dj blurb — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:56:58 +0000

Phil’s right. I mostly decrufted my URLs awhile ago and now I’m dynamic on blurbomat.com. No difference in URLs. It was far less painful than I imagined. My comments numbers aren’t showing up, but that’s either a bug or my code.

AS for dooce, there are bigger issues because of the archive structure inside Movable Type. It looks like a smart 404 page is going to be the way to go. Thanks to everybody for their suggestions.

By: Phil Ringnalda

Phil Ringnalda — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:33:59 +0000

Not sure where everyone seems to have gotten the idea that MT’s dynamic publishing requires some new URLs that will confuse Googlebot, but: here’s a sample old Dooce

/archives/nubbin/09_10_2004.html

and here’s a sample for dynamic publishing:

/archives/nubbin/09_10_2004.html

Pretty sure that won’t pose a problem for Google, or even AltaVista if they still crawl. There’s *no* change in URL, just little gnomes running from .htaccess over to the mt_fileinfo database table to see what should go in the requested URL and off to PHP to fry it up.

By: monkeyinabox

monkeyinabox — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:01:49 +0000

Finally RSS feeds from Dooce! Now I can read in utter unformatted ugliness!

By: Anil

Anil — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:09:22 +0000

Plus all of us at the company that makes Movable Type are big fans of Jon and Heather. So there’s that.

By: dj blurb

dj blurb — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:24:10 +0000

Wordpress is nice, but not as nice as Movable Type. None of the other solutions I’ve seen (this excludes Expression Engine) have the elegance or support of Movable Type. But that’s me.

By: Very Mom

Very Mom — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 04:33:09 +0000

I was reading over some of the debates about MT I found through that link to the google search. I’m currently using free and oft complained about Greymatter. I had always thought I would eventually move to MT, but recently found wordpress.org – do you or anyone else have experience with this publishing platform?

By: FrumDad (Orthodox Jewish Father)

FrumDad (Orthodox Jewish Father) — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:20:17 +0000

’sme again. Are the next/prev buttons new (and possibly even in response to my request)? Or have they been there all along and I’m just a dork?

Miel — I had a similar reaction. We could just get rich and then hire Jon to be the uber-geek at our respective webspaces, but at least for me that’s lookin’ unlikely. I’ll just have to quit my job, leave my family, and hole up with a bunch of CSS books for three years or so.

Or I could just use Blogger and “lust in my heart” after Jon and his coding skills.

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:29:24 +0000

I apologize but I want to talk babies. I guess I was lucky when my son was Leta’s age. My mother and father were always close at hand. When taking care of my son became too much they would demand that I take a few days out of town to myself. When I came back, my relationship with my baby and my state of mind was 20 billion times better! However you guys can do this, it is good.

Take care…

By: greta

greta — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:57:02 +0000

the new design is lovely… but i’m having a formatting issue. the first time i looked at it yesterday, everything was fine, but ever since then when i load the page the header and text doesn’t start until about halfway down. i’ve tried refreshing, but that didn’t help… is anyone else having this issue, or is it just me?