Comments on: No, I Said Do Not Call!

By: Muskie

Muskie — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:58:18 +0000

Maybe it is some sort of flaw in Opera or an easily fixable thing in the CSS. Because when I hold my mouse over the ‘5′ the words “comments” appears right after it. I don’t know if this is deliberate to be cool or some sort of bug.

Lately people have been inferring Opera isn’t the best for CSS support, but they take it very seriously so I still stick with them. Plus they were the first to have tabs or among the first and I’ve gotten used to it. There is some javascript or some other crap that sometimes crashes it, plus sites that plain don’t want anything but IE on Windows, but you can spoof them to a degree if you or determined. Or just surf another site. I’m the frickin’ consumer. I spend money online. I will be in a very valuable demorgraphic if I am not already, let them do without me for a change…

I’ve been dicking with my own template, it still has a far more serious bug than yours when viewed in IE on windows. I hope to fix it this weekend, but I have so very much to do and so many problems that affect my motivation.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:41:46 +0000

Re : buzzing into the building.

Naw, Ash had the same issue in his apartment; you just called as you were walking up and he would open the door for you. Just like a hotel doorman….

By: Brendon

Brendon — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:54:16 +0000

Agreed - the use of a number for the comments could be improved. Keep in mind this is a stock template I’m using. It’s actually a beta version of the template, and there’s a number of places where it could be improved. I was just eager to get off MovableType and move hosting providers. I’ll improve it as time progresses.

By: muskie

muskie — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:57:25 +0000

My secret is to move so often they can’t keep up with me…

On another note, I don’t like how you just have a number in your WordPress theme for the ‘comments’ link. I’m a Clever Cucumber and I figured it out. But this is not good useability or web design.

If your goal is to get a lot of active participation on your blog you might want to fix this.

I blogged about Jakob Neilsen (spelling?) recently has he released his top 10 Blog design useability mistakes. I’ve read Jakob’s book, but I much prefer Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think.

I’d ‘quote’ it but I don’t know where the quotation character is on the Chinese keyboard I’m using. I miss my Mac…

By: Ashley Richards

Ashley Richards — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:28:39 +0000

Actually a cell phone does not solve the answer here. Verizon has published a directory for cell phones. There are no laws, last I heard of, in the US that prohibit solicitation on cell phones. You have to register your cell phone on the Do Not Call list as well. I recieved 3 telemarketer calls on my cell phone before I did that.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:52:39 +0000

Well, first you need to understand that I never had this problem in BC either. Down here, there’s major amounts of telelmarketing, aggressive customer upsellling, etc. And although I do have a cell phone now, I can’t actually get rid of my landline - I need a landline to buzz people into my building! D’oh!

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:35:05 +0000

You do know the most simple way out of this entire issue: get cell phones. Telemarketing, charities, pollsters and the lot are not allowed to call you unless it is required (eg. “someone” just transferred ten thousand swiss francs to a Bermuda bank account and they want to be sure it was me).

I had a cell phone in Vancouver for 4.5 years and never once had to deal with any of your above complaints.

Now, I realize you have luddite fears of cell phones but on the flip side my RSS reader would remain silent if you (and Ashley) got mobiles!