Weddingbee Blog

UPDATE: We’re trying out the streamlined layout as the default.  If you’d like to switch to the classic expanded view, just follow the instructions in the post below!

Streamlined archives were a big hit… so now we’re testing a new optional streamlined version of the frontpage!

To try it out, just mouseover the word “expanded” at the top of the page (right above the MORE buttons) … and “switch to Streamlined”.

It streamlines the posts just like in the Archive pages.

We’ll test this out for a bit… and if the test goes well, we may make the Streamlined version the default frontpage view.

But if it’s not your style, no worries! There will be an optout so that you can set your frontpage to always show the classic Expanded version.

A few advantages of the streamlined version:

• The frontpage loads much faster, since the frontpage is roughly 2/3 smaller now! Yay for sluggish modems!
• Our server has been hiccuping more due to high traffic lately.  The sleeker frontpage should help keep the site fast for everyone!
• The frontpage loads much faster on mobile phones, which are an increasing amount of Weddingbee traffic.

Also… the streamlined frontpage will let us show 20-30 posts at a time eventually… so that posts don’t scroll off the frontpage as fast - we update 28 times a day on average!

It’s completely optional though - so if you don’t like it, just click here to make sure you stay on the Expanded view.

And since we’re trying to make it easier and easier for you to view archives, we also added a new Calendar module to the frontpage sidebar:

Now if you miss a day of posts, you can just click over to that day and start catching up from there.

Let us know what you think!