Blog Usability: Our Most Popular Content
At Justaddwater, we’re introducing a new category: “Best of Justaddwater“. Alexander, the Chief Happiness Officer, came up with a “best of”-category, that I think any blog could benefit from. Absolutely a brilliant idea.
At the moment, we want this to completely replace our experiment with a wordpress plugin for measuring popular posts. (Popularity Contest has a number of bugs that skew the popularity numbers for us). The manual work required for estimating what content is popular is OK with us, as long as it gives a better user experience for you, dear reader.
I’m sure that this can improve user experience of our blog and make the most interesting stuff easier to find. Some of the highlights that might be of interest to you:
- 25% of all web users are disabled
- AJAX businesscase: Reduce development costs and increase usability
- How to indicate required or optional form fields
- Ruby on Rails as rapid prototyping tool
- Design for Browser Size — Not Screen Size
- All IE Browsers Standalone On Same PC
- 88% never use personalization
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December 8th, 2006 at 15:51 (GMT-1)
Thanks for the kind words – I’m glad you liked the idea of a “best of” category.
For one thing, as you write, stats can be skewed, but more than that there may not be a complete overlap between the best posts on a blog and the most popular ones.
That’s why I put all the posts I’m most proud of in the “best of” category and promote that, rather than the most read posts.
December 8th, 2006 at 15:59 (GMT-1)
Hi Alex.
“The posts I’m most proud of”. I really like that expression.