Comments on: Blog Style: Continue Reading

By: Cam Tardi

Cam Tardi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:12:13 +0000

I have only seen one implementation of the ‘continue reading’ link that I have actually liked. There were two reasons that I liked it, and they are as follows.
1. The blog was not the main feature of the site. It was just used to share news articles which only really get read the first time you see them, as otherwise they are just a waste of screen real estate (in my opinion…)

2. It was done with a javascript expand/collapse. No page load to view the whole article. If you don’t have javascript, it just shows the whole article by default. Doesn’t look as good for the layout, but it works.

So, for an actual blog blog (ie, the main focus of the site is the blog), I would say that they are not that great, more of an annoyance to me. I’d consider it a tool, and you should always try to use the best tool for the job.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:58:41 +0000

Thanks for visiting Steve and commenting. I’m sorry if it sounded like I was implying you had partial feeds. I was trying to say that I find layouts with the ‘Continue Reading’ etc are similar to those with Partial RSS feeds and it’s a pet peeve of mine. I used to use partial feeds till I figured out how to properly display the entire feed without breaking the XML portion of them.

Even if the site has a full RSS Feed, I will still visit because I like to check out the comments etc. =)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:36:02 +0000

You know, I was torn with the continue reading link when I selected that theme (I own StartBlogging by the way, thanks for the link). I’m not a big fan of continue reading myself and have intentions of changing my theme once the content fills in a little more. The blog is less than a month old.

For the record, I have full RSS feeds. I hate partial RSS feeds.

By: derek

derek — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:28:20 +0000

I’m not a fan of the “Continue Reading…” or “More…” links just like I am not a fan of partial RSS feeds.

When I first started blogging I have to admit that I used the short, teaser posts on the main page requiring a link for the full post. But as I became more familiar with blogs I realized that I didn’t like that on other sites so I removed it from mine.

Full posts and full RSS feeds for everyone!