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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 Venue: Winery in the Gold Country About Me: I love the Spice Girls, dogs with underbites, bean burritos, making messes, high fives, avoiding showers, crossword puzzles, blogs, weddings, and blogs about weddings!
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Streamlined Archives

July 15th, 2009 @ 11:55 pm by Mrs. Penguin

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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30 Responses to “Streamlined Archives”

1.
Mojito
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Mojito (message)  273 posts, Helper bee

Great idea! I really like the look of the streamlined archives.

 
2.
Lillindy
Hostess
Lillindy (message)  4,275 posts, Honey bee

LOVE IT!!! Thanks to all that made it happen!

 
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Miss D'orsay (message)  1,302 posts, Bumble bee

Oh yes! Thank you man bees (and pengy and bee)!!! You guys rock!

 
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tiffany

awesome! can’t wait to check it out on my itouch.

 
5.
Miss Poodle
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Miss Poodle (message)  3,020 posts, Sugar bee

WOW!! WB keeps getting better and better!! :)

 
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Jessica

Wow this will be so helpful when I try to find that one bee that did that one thing.

 
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Miss Mouse (message)  3,363 posts, Sugar bee

I love it! So much easier to find an old post. :)

 
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srogan12

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!

 
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kjpugs
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kjpugs (message)  859 posts, Busy bee

Thanks Pengy! This is awesome!

 
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Gerbera
Member
Gerbera (message)  838 posts, Busy bee

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?!! :)

 
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mrspaetz
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mrspaetz (message)  1,707 posts, Bumble bee

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.

 
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Miss Bruschetta (message)  5,553 posts, Bee Keeper

Definitely should make browsing the archives easier. :-)

 
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Mrs. Deviled Egg
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Mrs. Deviled Egg (message)  895 posts, Busy bee

Looks great, guys!

 
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Mrs. Flamingo (message)  1,267 posts, Bumble bee

You did well… looks great and clean :)

 
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El Capataz
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El Capataz (message)  272 posts, Helper bee

Fantabulous!

 
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Jessie516
Hostess
Jessie516 (message)  4,073 posts, Honey bee

Wow, that’s great. That will definitely make checking the archives much easier. Awesome job!

 
17.
pvaulter718
Member
pvaulter718 (message)  1,617 posts, Bumble bee

Wow guys, it looks really great! Thanks for keeping everything so up to date! you rock!

 
18.
LovestheBear
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LovestheBear (message)  877 posts, Busy bee

Yeah! Thanks so much!

 
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Miss Mary Jane
Bee
Miss Mary Jane (message)  1,520 posts, Bumble bee

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 :)!!!

 
20.
Yin
Member
Yin (message)  329 posts, Helper bee

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!

 
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Mrs. Cheese (message)  647 posts, Busy bee

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!

 
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Miss Cloud (message)  587 posts, Busy bee

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)

 
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ggsb
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ggsb (message)  842 posts, Busy bee

This is great! Love it…thanks bee boys!

 
24.
Gilneas
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Gilneas (message)  1,029 posts, Bumble bee

Ooh, this is NICE!

 
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Miss Labrador (message)  1,325 posts, Bumble bee

In the words of McDonald’s…I’m lovin’ it!

Haha, can you tell I’m hungry?

 
26.
Miss French Bulldog
Bee
Miss French Bulldog (message)  6,077 posts, Bee Keeper

I LOVE IT! Great job Man Bees! :)

 
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LatteLove
Hostess
LatteLove (message)  4,129 posts, Honey bee

Thanks for always making amazing inmprovements to the already amazing WeddingBee!

 
28.
tea
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tea (message)  2,659 posts, Sugar bee

yay! i just noticed it before and now the explanation. genius, i say. genius.

 
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adias.angel
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adias.angel (message)  76 posts, Worker bee

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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ms boardwalk (message)  349 posts, Helper bee

sweeeet! love it.

 


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