Neal Learned WordPress Last Night
Last night while I was sleeping, Neal built this in Wordpress. Since he never does any of our Wordpress coding, I was impressed. He did it in six hours. For some people that wouldn’t be a big deal, but he hasn’t coded anything in years, so I’m very proud of him.
He built the kind of site we’ve wanted as a home page. It has google search and nine of our favorite gadget blog feeds. He’s designing the page to be just what we want, but I thought some of you might like it too. If you use the google search box, your searches support The Brief.
Are there features you’d like to see added?
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Impressive.
I’d like to see a clock. Can you do a clock? Not just the time, a nice clock.
Great Job Neal,
It looks nice, I do have some small suggestions/requests:
- When you scroll down to the bottom, the logo will disappear for a bit, Your footer covers the logo, so then I only see Sear instead of Search, I don’t know if you want this.
- If you want people to use this as their browser start page instead of the google search start page, I think it would be nice if all the text could fit into 1 window, people start their browser and they need to see directly that there is something new, not that they have to scroll down to see the rest of the news.
- It would be nice if you could see which items were new since your last visit, I don’t know if wordpress supports this by default.
Very nice, Neal. I think I’ll be using it daily; it looks truly useful. As for extrended functionality, how about “Search the Web” and “Search GBTV” options on the Google search. There are many times when I’d like to return to the page (and the Brief) where a certain gadget was covered (or mentioned on iCali or a Dear Cali answer). It would be nice to be able to limit the search strictly to GBTV pages when I want to find your coverage of something from months back.
Congrats Neal. I’m dying to learn the Wordpress. 1.5 had a real simple loop, but I’m having tons of trouble with the latest. I guess I’m just going to have to learn how to make my own templates. I’m halfway there, I’m teaching myself CSS now.
Get well soon Cali.
@Florin: Is your monitor 800×600?
@Dave: We’ll add Search GBTV and iCali and Dear Cali buttons.
Our plan is to make several different versions so people can pick and choose. One of the next things we want to add a page that scrolls through RSS headlines in real time, like this: http://technorati.com/topics/technology
Thanks for the feedback!! I’m opening at topic in the forum about this (www.gbtvtalk.com).
@Cali : “@Florin: Is your monitor 800×600?”
I have 1280 x 1024 and I have the same problem.
@Cali: Mine is 1680 x 1050, and I also see the logo trimmed off just after the R in “SEARCH”.
great job. the only issue i have with it is that it loads slow, at least for me (safari). part of the whole reason i use google as my homepage is that it is a simple, clean site that loads fast and i can start a new search in a new window right away. i guess you can’t have everything.
i like that idea for a page that scrolls through RSS headlines in real time though. that seems cool
Yeah, me too, 1280×1024 and I have to scroll.
I like it, but I’m not sure if I can use it. I usually have like 40-50 tabs that automatically open when I start the browser, but I might enter it as part of the “what’s new on the internet” round.
Ps: Yeah, I’m impressed as well. Looks clean :)
Very nice! My only suggestion would be to let the background image scroll with the page. I run my browser in a window, not full screen, and so I don’t see the entire background — ever.
@ Cali:
17″ MBP = 1680×1050.
You can probably solve it by adjusting the height of the footer, remove the big empty space below the copyright and the problem is solved.
Giving the footer DIV a height of 200 pixels is perhaps a bit of a overkill for 2 lines of text.
Still, if possible, I would personally prefer to have all the news feeds visible in one screen without the need of scrolling down.
This is very impressive. Did you read a book on WordPress or just pick it up from some websites?
I think I was trying to use the site to search during the experimenting and upgrade. However, when I saw the reason why it was all messed up I have to say I like the results. No offense Cali, I liked seeing you on GBTVSearch, but this is much more usefull. :-)
I have set this as my homepage on my personal computer so hopefully all my searches will help you out. I am always trying to find ways to support the brief.
One question/suggestion I have is, can we get results for other other google topics like images, news, etc. like you get when you go to normal google?
@Dan: Thank you! :) We’d like to offer the other options like images, news, etc, but Google doesn’t give us that as an option. If they do, we’ll definitely add it!
I like the set-up. Just think it would look nicer if there was an option to make the background black.
Nice Blog. Good Look