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Posted by: Evie
Posted on: Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 11:47 am CDT

@Genomic Repairman, Brian just doesn't like you. He told me so.

Hehe.. juuust kidding.. sorry couldnt resist your description of name wrapping was just too funny to me for some reason. Im gonna blame the crazy heat/humidity combo.
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Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 9:15 pm CDT

Haha, not really, just too many new lines! I set the box to min-height now instead of a limit height. Should resize fine now. Check it out :)
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Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 8:15 pm CDT

Hey Brian something went wrong with the summary of my blog post that wrapped over my name and onto the bottom on the Blogs page. Did I input something wrong?
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Posted by: Kelly Oakes
Posted on: Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 2:21 pm CDT

I guess the way it is now bloggers have the option of just pasting the first paragraph into the summary box if they like, or writing a separate summary... I agree with Dr Becca's suggestion though, I can never resist clicking through to read a whole post if there's an ellipsis!
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Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 1:23 pm CDT

The other option is to post the last 3 entries in full, with a link to the comments sections of each, and then after those three default back to the summaries? I'll do anything, just let me know what you all prefer. I can also give you multiple options, Summaries, First paragraph, or first three blog posts.
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Posted by: biochem belle
Posted on: Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 6:10 am CDT

The summaries are definitely great for the front page, where posts from all blogs are aggregated. On bloggers' pages, partial posts might be useful, to give a better idea of the writing. If you decide to go with partial posts, I would say the first paragraph with a "Read more" link to follow. But I don't know how much more this will add over summaries.
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Posted by: Dr Becca, Ph.D.
Posted on: Sun, Jul 25, 2010, 9:20 pm CDT

I think the summary is nice, but what I'd suggest is that maybe you have a "More" button/link or something else under the summary (like the first sentence and a half of the post, with elipsis) that takes you to the full post--I think it would encourage more clicking through!
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Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 11:47 am CDT

Not to add anything else too major to my to do list this week, but it was suggested by @physiology on twitter that I do away with the summaries on your pages and just do full/partial posts ala WordPress/blogger. Thoughts?
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