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Hey hey hive! We’ve gotten a number of requests to streamline author archives, so that it’s easier to find posts.
Well, here it is… come and get it! We just created this streamlined archive page, that shows the title and tags of each post - along with a 60 or so word excerpt. And because pictures are such a big part of our posts, we threw in a thumbnail to help give a sense for each post:
Pengy face! Now in 190 px wide!
As an added benefit, the archive page should load much faster now! We have an increasing amount of traffic coming from iPhones, Blackberries, and other smartphones - so the smaller page sizes (2/3 smaller!) should make browsing much faster for mobile users, as well!
We’re generating smaller thumbnails for the larger images now, so over time the pages will load even faster. 
Eventually, we’ll be able to display more than the 10 per page that there are now… we hope to get it up to 25 or more!
A few sample pages:
If these pages work well, we’ll consider making it an option to have the streamlined version appear as your frontpage as well! But don’t worry - we’d continue to support the classic view of the frontpage.
A huge thank you to Mr. Bee and BIL Bee for working so hard on this for us… this feature literally took weeks and long nights to hash out! We rove you rong time, man bees!
Let us know what you think!
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Great idea! I really like the look of the streamlined archives.
Oh yes! Thank you man bees (and pengy and bee)!!! You guys rock!
awesome! can’t wait to check it out on my itouch.
Wow this will be so helpful when I try to find that one bee that did that one thing.
Totally amazing - as a relative newcomer to WB, this is great for catching up and finding old posts. And since I sometimes have to catch up on several days of WB at once, this streamlined format will greatly increase my efficiency!
I really like the streamline version and would not mind at all having that is the default front page. It’s a much quicker way to assess what’s been blogging lately.
“We have an increasing amount of traffic coming from iPhones, Blackberries, and other smartphones ” -does that mean Bee-dom is considering a WB App?!!
oh that’s awesome! thank you Man Bees!
the date archive is a nice addition. i hope we eventually have a way to navigate via “calendar”, so if i know i stopped reading say on, Tuesday, when i come back on Saturday, I can easily navigate back by days too.
Definitely should make browsing the archives easier.
Wow, that’s great. That will definitely make checking the archives much easier. Awesome job!
Wow guys, it looks really great! Thanks for keeping everything so up to date! you rock!
I really like this design. If the post has no photo, we get a big photo of our face in the preview- that’s how it works? That’s motivation for me to find a photo for my posts :)!!!
Thank you Pengy, Mr. Bee, BIL Bee, and Mrs. Bee!! You guys are doing such a great job improving the site. Keep up the great work!
I LOVE IT! Love, love, love, LOVE. Love!
MJ - how’s that for inducing you to include at least one photo in your posts? Certainly would have kept me from posting so many times without pics!
Those bee boys are the best!
For those looking for phone apps go vote under IDEAS to request one! If we generate enough intrest, they might go for it (I’m on a personal mission to get a bb app! Haha)
In the words of McDonald’s…I’m lovin’ it!
Haha, can you tell I’m hungry?
Thanks for always making amazing inmprovements to the already amazing WeddingBee!
yay! i just noticed it before and now the explanation. genius, i say. genius.
Thank you so much for listen to our suggestions and doing this! I would like to offer a critique though. When I was looking for this feature I was searching for a specific topic, usually not a picture so the single pic for each blog only takes up space. I had hope to see a very abbreviated list with just the title and up to XXX number of words. That way there you could skim through many on page like I do many news feeds.
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Mrs. Penguin, Northern California
Age and Occupation: 27, Weddingbee Editor in Chief
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
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