akrish

As I’ve been perusing other blogger’s sites, I’ve picked up some general trends that blogs seem to follow. I’ve been working on adding some of these features to akrish, which is partially why I haven’t been writing that much recently. Very briefly, here they are:

Archives: This is my third month of blogging, and I have a decent amount of articles on the site. The archives allow me, and other readers to browse articles by month. I really see this as a way for users to find my most recent articles.

Tagging: A work in progress (it’s running decently on my local server). I’m trying to enable tagging of articles so that users can browse articles based on tags. It’ll let users find the stuff that they’re really interested in. Hopefully I’ll finish this up this weekend and deploy it on the production server.

Comments improvements: A lot of blogs allow users to link to their website in their comments, so I jumped on the boat and did the same thing. there’s a weird behavior if a user doesn’t include a URL that I need to get around to fixing, but for the most part it works.

I also want to implement a more general search engine on the site, but I probably won’t get around to it for awhile (now that school’s really started I’m very busy). Are these features useful? Do they work as you want them to? Do they contribute to the blog? Any criticisms? Thanks.