State of the Site, and I’m Soliciting your Feedback
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OK, maybe not massive changes, but there will be some noticeable site improvements. 20Somethingfinance is still in its relative infancy, but activity on the site has increased dramatically recently with exponential growth in subscriptions and organic traffic. As such, I want to be able to provide the most value and best usability for you, the reader. In the coming months you can expect to see some major changes with the site interface, including:
- Experimentation with different themes and sidebar layouts (if you know of any great inexpensive or free themes, let me know - frugality is a major theme of this site, after all). If you design themes, shoot me an email.
- New plug-ins to increase reader interaction (polls, recent comments, top commentators, and others).
Don’t be surprised to see the look of the site change often until I can settle on something that will allow me to reach my vision for the site. Hang in there friends, then end result will be much more to your liking.
Some things won’t change. You can continue to expect about 2-3 well researched, content-rich posts per week. There are always exceptions, but my posts generally come from reader interactions. I am not fond of blogs that shoot off a large quantity of link-heavy, value-deficient posts, and I will continue to stay away from that. I usually put in a good 3-4 hours of brainstorming, research, writing, editing, and crafting everything into an easily digestible format for the reader. You will also continue to see interactions through commenting.
Reader Feedback:
I want to open it up to you, and would like your opinion on the following things:
- What are your current thoughts on the site?
- What is it’s strong points?
- What is it lacking?
- Are there any plug-ins or features that you’d love to see?
- What type of content would you like to see more of?
- Any other comments?
Thank you for the feedback!
I just came across your site this week and read via RSS. So far I’ve enjoyed the articles. Since I do most my reading via RSS, a lot of the “on-site” changes won’t make much of a difference to me. At least, I don’t expect them to.
Like the site fine. Come here for the info rather than the aesthetics. Just keep me informed about practical economics and I’ll keep coming back.
@ Kobbi - Yes, I recently changed the RSS feed from a summary to a full article for readers like you. It looks like if the article is compelling enough for you, you will still come to the site to comment?
@ Jared - That’s what I intend to do. If you ever feel that is lacking, let me know. Thanks for the feedback.
1. What are your current thoughts on the site?
2. What is it’s strong points?
3. What is it lacking?
4. Are there any plug-ins or features that you’d love to see?
5. What type of content would you like to see more of?
6. Any other comments?
1. I like the layout of the site. However, I am no graphics major/designer if only you knew someone like that G.E….
2. Focusing on financial needs of the 20something. I believe that people under 30 (for the most part) don’t know what to do financially.
…more to follow
Subscribed via RSS, I rarely see the actual site and only care about the content. I open the site whenever posting a comment, but that’s convenient enough as it is. No improvements or pain points come to mind. I know it’s not rich feedback, just being honest.
2-0 in favor of RSS. I actually am the same way with RSS, only clicking when I have to or to comment. That brings up an interesting point. When I started the site I noticed that my ‘more’ tag was leading to only a partial feed (through feedburner, at least). If you never visited the site and only got a partial feed, would you unsubscribe?
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