The blog is loading maddeningly slow. It's been doing this for the past few days, and is particuarly irritating when you click on an embedded link and then try to return to the post you were reading.
I suspect it's Blogrolling--the links to other sites in the left sidebar. The way it works is, it loads first and delays everything else until it times out. Or something--I've said it before, the tech side ain't my strong suit.
I'm hoping this is just a glitch they'll get resolved, and soon, because I put too damn much work into this to have it rendered inacessible by what is supposed to be an enhancement tool. I have neither the knowledge nor the time to do anything other than just delete the blogroll. Of course, it could also be these stupid Google ads--they take up a lot of space and the return for ceding that is pretty much pathetic. But I'm almost up to the first hundred bucks and they don't pay off until you reach that threshhold, so I'm not going to throw in the towel this close to the goal (only $9.74 to go after what, a month-and-a-half?).
If anybody else is experiencing similar technical difficulties on your blog, please advise.
Friday, February 08, 2008
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It's blogrolling. You're probably better off just hardcoding the links.
-SayUncle
Yes it is blogrolling. The more stuff you have displayed on your blog the slower it will load.
An alternative would be to use Bloglines. Although it's a newsreader service, you can also use it to display your blogroll.
Go to Blogrolling and click on "backup". This will save an opml file of your blogroll to your computer. After you create your Bloglines account you can import the opml file and it should re-create your blogroll as your Bloglines subscriptions.
Then just replace the Blogrolling script with the appropriate Bloglines script.
Blogrolling backup to opml file: Check.
Set up Bloglines account: Check.
Stuck on stupid with absolutely no idea what to do next: Check.
The image in your 'about' section at the top is almost 60kb. That's rather large for such a small image. It's not the entire problem, but on my cruddy broadband connection it does take 4-5 seconds to load.
I'm still using Bloglines "classic," not Bloglines "beta." So if you're using beta things might not be in the same place. I don't know if new accounts default to classic or beta, but if you're on beta you can switch back to classic. To keep things simple, make sure you're using classic. If you're using beta it will say Bloglines Beta at the top left. Log out and go back to your original login page and click on "sign in to Bloglines classic."
After you log in to Bloglines, look down toward the bottom of the left sidebar where it says "Additional Features." Under that section there's a link for "Import Subscriptions." Click on that to import your opml file.
If everything imports correctly, your old blogroll should now be a big list of Bloglines subscriptions. Look back under "Additional Features" again and click on "Share" to bring up the window that generates the blogroll script.
For options on how your blogroll will be displayed, look at the top of the Bloglines sidebar and click on "edit." Select the folder that all your subscriptions are under. Then you can use the drop down menu where it says "choose operation" to control whether you want the blogroll displayed alphabetically or if you want them displayed in order of the most recent posts (select "newest first" for this). If you change it to "newest first" the most active blogs will tend to be displayed higher up in the blogroll because they are more frequently updated.
Well, did all that, saved it as an opml file, went to import it to bloglines and then it says 0 files, so when I went to share there was nothing there.
I so love being proven a moron in a public forum, but I guess there will be no shortage of those who contend I do that every day...
I think what it is is that Blogrolling went belly up and didn't tell anyone--and when I did the backup it didn't save the links in the file--because the resulting OPML file is only 26Kb, so I suspect there's nothing in it..? Which means unless Blogrolling comes back up and allows me to recapture all my links, I am screwed--first remembering everyone on my list, and then having to input them one at a time into the Blogger form...
Figgered it out my own self and am now free of blogrolling AND bloglines, and am now insufferably pleased with myself.
But thanks for the patient advice.
You might also consider hard coding your link to open a new window (target="_blank"), to save folks having to reload the blog after they're done reading.
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