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Cameron has just published a great article on adding your own post types in Tumblr:
“Tumblr’s recent update to version 3 of the service has made it possible to make your own post types with the custom theme tag TagsAsClasses and some fancy CSS, as I did with my review post-type.”
Proving that perhaps tumblr is far less a tool designed to regurgitate comment alone, rather it has embraced some pretty nifty features of late that open up a range of options for multiple types of content.
Not to belittle the Davidville and Tumblr crew, but it isn’t necessarily the technology itself that is important, rather it is how one makes best use of it that really illustrates it’s value.
The Tumblr engine is increasingly being exposed to users, the end result is some pretty smart stuff.
“I don’t skim. I "imprint" on each item. If it makes an impression due to a variety of things that I look for, then I read. Then I share.”
"I’ve been using it [sig2feed] for my Secret Links feature, which only people who subscribe to my RSS feed can see." — a creative and smart use of my RSS Signature plugin.
".. zoom vs prime lenses. A few questions which are commonly asked are which is best, which should I use, which is the most affordable, and which will give me the best image quality?" — Glenn covers advantages of each, in a concise, well written guide.
"While I’m at it, let’s go over some basic yet intuitive (for those who actually get life) rules for locker room etiquette.." — an important reminder for any fitness freak.. you have been warned.
"For me, it is more important that I read the websites I want to. The websites that I can connect to what’s being written and who’s writing it." — discovering great relational content has become pivotal for me, repetitive tech and gadgetry is falling by the wayside.
"I want my clients to know I am honored to work for them, and I am proud to take on their job. Even if we are professionals—aren’t we still just folks?" — on that note, Shawn closes out a great post on being a better designer.
Chris Cabanillas, aka RestiffBard writes:
I know Go Daddy to be a legitimate business. I know this primarily because I use them as my registrar for, now, two domains. All the same, their website design creeps me out. Not only are they trying to sell you something but it feels like they’re trying to sell you something.
Indeed. Visiting go daddy is like a (bad) trip to Vegas. They don’t hide behind various agreements in 3pt Sanskrit - it’s all neon lights, LSD flash-backs and tacky shop-front vestige.
The thing is, it works. The design clearly plays on the deer-in-headlights or the impending-train-wreck scenario - common sense, hell even the fight-or-flight instinct tells one to get the hell out of the way, and yet one simply cannot move.
Retro 90’s inspired gaudy design? Check. Abuse of the <small> tag? Check. Millions of options presented over 12 different forms, just to procure a domain name? Check. Leather clad indy car driver, preferably female? Check.
And how do I know it works? I have three domains, not one, or two, but three domains registered. And as the Bard says, one will spend ‘a good ten minutes of staring and scrolling just to be sure all the right checkboxes are checked’. Which is also true. Daddy cool will ask you, incessantly, over several forms, what type of fries, coke and sides you want, with that order. None sir? No? How about this? Or that? Or this other dohicky?
However, there is good news, of sorts. For those whom have a basic (or better) grasp on the registration process, take a note of the ‘expert users catalog’ — this is the secret to drilling down past the neon lights, multi-layer forms in 8pt and fake plastic couture and into the heart of the beast.
Scroll down the form, locate the domain registration section, input desired name, ensure ‘quick checkout’ is enabled and hit ‘add to cart’. The system will confirm if the domain is available, hit ‘continue’ and you will be asked, once, if you wish to pay for privacy1, pays your money and your done.
So, are godaddy horrific? Yes. But they don’t hide it. They do a job and do it quite well. So I forgive them of their unholy lolly-pop 90’s design and inexplicable navigational black-holes, because sometimes, design isn’t everything2.
"Every day I come into contact with a new blog or blogger. It is wonderful to see new websites and read the content that they hold, however, it is definitely annoying to be bombarded with.." — Justin Shattuck vocalises the things we’re all thinking. #
