You know what I like about Javascript? No run-time errors. If you have bad syntax, nothing works and you don’t know why. No stepping through the code to see what variables are doing. If anyone was reading between 9PM and 12PM USA-CST, you probably saw some crazy message boxes (those nutty javascripters call them alerts).

Looks like you “learned to use cookies.” The ” recent” menus are staying expanded. I’m impressed.

Cookies: Is it possible? Yes. Do I know how? No. Will I learn. Yes? Any JS people want to give me a hand with that, I’ll take it.

Move ads: When I first read this comment, I said “Yes, no problem, consider it done.” Since those ads have been ‘above the fold’ they have generated 3 times the revenue than the best day previous. I’m not in this for the money, but three times? The best I can say now is, “I’ll consider it”.

Login: It does absolutely nothing but store your information in a MySQL table. I could possibly use it for stuff, but so far, I haven’t. You don’t have to register to comment or do anything else.

Hashcash: I upgraded to the new hashcash, so I hope that takes care of any problems you may have had. I know I haven’t got any comment spam since I upgraded. Spammers don’t register, in fact they don’t even use the interface. The go straight to the php commands (or something like that). Many don’t even have email addresses, which is illegal when you go through the interface.

Flash, etc.: Just for that comment, I’m going to have a flash intro with really loud bagpipe music. And the ‘skip intro’ button will be an ActiveX control so you can’t use it in FF.

Thin space: I agree and I’ll see what I can do.

Preview: I have yet to see a WordPress site that has this. I don’t think anyone has ever developed it, but I’ve been looking for it for quite a while. If I see it, it will be implemented, because I think it’s a good idea. If you see it, please drop me a line.

Conclusion: I’m going to learn how to use cookies so it remembers your menus between pages, sessions, whatever. We’ll give that a go for a couple of weeks. If you still hate it, then back to static-always-showing-menus they go.

This is what I prefer to see:

1. Recent Posts
Date, Post title

2. Recent Comments
Date, Post title,
Commentator, Time
(I would skip the number of comments)

Apart from that I think the layout is great – good & clean. Easy to comment – no password needed.

Just some minor details, while I’m at it:
Recently Commented: the list would be easier to read if there would be just a very thin space between each comment.
Submit Comment: I like to preview my post before posting.

Othervise, I relly enjoy your blog and the level of the discussion.
Thanks!
Ola Sandstrom

But seriously… you’re doing a great job with this blog, Dick.

I too miss the expanded menus. It’s fine to expand them once, but having to do it every with every page change is not good.

Since the real estate you gain by collapsing the menus is filled with ads, the border looks more cluttered. I think it looked better before, but this one is not so important to me (certainly not worth delaying your retirement!). I think I’d move all the text links up and the ones with graphics to the bottom, so your search, login, etc., are nearer the top. Otherwise they get lost amid the graphics.

Did you see that there was a blog spammer calling himself “credit repair”?

You may need to make it more difficult to register as right now it’s easy for a spammer to run a script that automatically registers for an account and then posts the spam.