Sourcebench - the web developer’s workplace

Five days after we started our experimental community based blog consulting Darren posted a first summary of the project. Over 80 responses gave me a pretty clear vision of things we need to do to make this site a better place.

Here are some of the things we already did today:

• Posting comments without registrations - done!
• "Read more" links on frontpage articles - done!
• Tag cloud readability - improved!
• Remove white space, create more contentspace - some improvement!
• Increased font size - done!

Things we will do soon:

• More structured content - content will be easier to find due to better categorization and layout
• Front page redesign - the front page will be redesigned to provide more information with a better structure. The header will get smaller and will be better organized
• Featured, most visited, most commented posts - there will be sections on the frontpage that emphasize the best posts and the handpicked ones.
• Better writing style - Sourcebench is searching for new members that will contribute better content.
• SEO - The page will be optimized for better search engine rankings.
• Code optimization - once we are done, we will re-optimize the code to be standard compliant again.
• Adding unique features - The page will get some unique features that will make it different from other "just blogs"

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