Akkam’s RazorI don't do personal that often, which is why I've never become a D-tier internet celebrity.

I'm reasonably sure that I've been using this design since ~2004, when I moved from Blogger to Wordpress.  So, it's high-time I redesigned.

To sketch out what I'm hoping to do, I have the following goals:

1. Decrease load times.
1. Cache as much content (and plugins) as possible.
2. Go to coded-HTML where possible versus PHP/MySQL.
3. Change mix of widgets based on page type, to decrease MySQL calls.
4. Employ Throttle and/or external caching services.
2. Increase Stickiness (left sidebar, on individual posts).
1. Better category use (displayed as tags).
1. Cut back to 5 +/ -2 Categories, all others are subcategories.
2. Display widgetized (internal and external) content.
1. Header
1. Title
2. Tagline
3. Pages
4. Search
2. Left-sidebar (Context and Content).
1. Tags
2. Related Internal Content
3. Popular Content
4. Related External Content
5. Latest Content
6. Recent Comments
7. Recent Referrers
8. Recent Trackbacks
3. Right-Side (Presence and Branding).
1. Quotes.
2. Online Networking.
3. Prerquisite "Blog Flare".
4. Notable Content
5. Flickr Photos
6. Digg News
7. Blogroll
8. Meta (hide?  only on toolbar?)
4. Footer
1. Ownership.
2. Technology and "Shoutbacks".
3. Counter Information.
4. Syndication
5. Creative Commons License.
3. Facilitate linking, comments, and bookmarking.
1. Easy URLS.
2. Clear and robust comment process and policy.
3. Write friendly and easily bookmarkable "ledes" (does del.icio.us pull them from pages?)
4. Better writing.
1. Ledes.
2. Footnotes.
3. External Link Tables.
4. Fewer Posts.
5. Thematic Content.
1. Start doing relavent posts based on current events.
2. Lifeblogging.
3. Academic blogging.
1. Psychology
2. Marketing
3. Management
4. Consumer Behavior
5. Indistrial Psychology
6. Organizational Dynamics
4. Hobby and Interest Blogging
1. Automobiles
2. Daily Links
3. Politics
4. Popculture
5. Technology
6. Webculture
6. Sitemaps (problematic due to cache issues).
7. Tags (manual or automatic?)
3. Create Revenue (various)
1. Follow SEO best practices (titles, metatags, site-name, etc).
2. Display discreet (but relavent) advertising.
3. Advertising should be a mix of text ads, image ads, link ads, and banner ads.
4. Use a variety of providers and implementations.
5. DO NOT display ads to registered users or users who are visiting from a feed, bookmark, non-search engine referral, or by directly typing in the URL.
4. Increase Branding and Presence (various for style, right sidebar for content).
1. Consistent Visual Appearance and Style.
1. Unique Color Scheme
2. Logo and Icon?
3. New favicon?
4. Decide "what my site means".
2. Repitition of Themes (aesthtics).
3. Use of In-Series Content.
4. Increased use of tags and thematic content.
5. Integrate internal and external content.
1. My own content sources (digg, akkamsrazor, del.icio.us).
2. External content (Google Blogsearch, Flickr, digg, newsvine, del.icio.us).
6. Outcomes
1. Deliver metric (and monetary) improvements.
2. Influence Webculture
1. Examine the Current Culture
2. Formulate the Ideal Culture
3. Assign meaning to the difference
4. Prioritize outcomes
5. Design an Implementation.
6. Measure the Results.
7. Share the Results Transparently.

Redesign Notes for Akkam’s Razor

Tags: caching, external caching services, Google, html, non-search engine referral, Online Networking, php, search engine

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