Yes, how strange for me not to even comment on the radical departure from the old theme! Don’t worry, St. Augustine is still hanging out on this site still confessing to his Dell laptop. I’ve been looking for a new theme for some time, especially something that was more forward-looking in terms of usability, focused on community and just something better organized. The old site was getting crowded due to all the widgets and gewgaws I added. If you noticed, I moved up all the interactive stuff and pushed down a lot of things that are necessary but not essential to making the site “sticky”.
There’s now an additional RSS feed available on this site. You can now get a RSS feed relating only to comments on the site. You can now also subscribe to comments via e-mail without having to actually post one. Even better, you no longer have to login to the site to post comments. I won’t be moderating them either as I’m hoping that the spammers can’t get past the CAPTCHA — the comments are all yours. If they do get past the CAPTCHA, then back to logins we go. You can also rate each others comments by click on the thumbs up and thumbs down icons at the end of each comment. Try it out!
Some things that may annoy you — I’m using sIFR technology. Basically, this site looks MUCH better if you’re Flash enabled. Go check it out. It may actually have an impact on your org’s next Web site (or not).
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Why aren’t you using Akismet instead of CAPTCHA for catching spam in comments? It’s been 100% affective on every blog I’ve installed it on, and there is no impact on the user experience.
Hey, I’m glad Beth outed you…nice to have a face with the name.
Akismet doesn’t catch them all. If I had left the comments without CAPTCHA — you’d all be reading porno comments. Those people are pretty good at evading Akismet. I’ve resorted to CAPTCHA because of it.