Wripe Nearly Ready
Posted on November 13, 2006
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WRIPE: Because Life’s All About Change
Wripe is an online magazine built from a combination of the bestblogs, blogs which are great but not getting the recognition they deserve and Wripe’s own editorial.
I put it together with Ted Shelton of Personalbee. I’ve made editorial decisions that I hope bring a really wide range of interesting voices into one place. I’ve also tried to combine the local with the global and to maintain a diverse range of subjects conencted to lifestyle. I’m interested in feedback - it’s been a long job getting in into shape.
Please e-mail me if you have questions or comments, or of course leave comments here. E-mail address is haydn [at] viaknowledge [dot] com.
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I clicked on the “continued” link of the first article. Up popped a new window with the url http://www.wripe.net/1622/5290190 and an error message saying, “Flock can’t find the server at reader.php.”
I looked at the source, and a frame src is wrong, it’s missing the “http” it of a url.
Otherwise, nice layout
Every link opens in a new window. Bad Wripe ! Bad !
I guess that can be changed - will ask Ted. Did you like anything about it?
I really like the look of this Haydn. Great name. Nice eclectic mix which tickles several of my fancies and also introduces me to new things.
But of course as a geek I’m gonna say RSS feeds please.
Seeing a few glitches like the story on ukwatch.net throwing a 500 error.
Interesting that you show the content on Wripe itself. How do all the content sources feel about that?
From a style perspective I’m more a fan of small amounts of content that change fairly regularly rather than a ton of stuff which changes intermittently in bursts. I wonder is the front page overloaded? The ADD gang might find it too content-dense.
Hi Conor - hope things are going OK with you right now!
I take your point(s). I need a bit more explanation from you though. The only full content you should be seeing is stuff I’ve written. The site mixes that with feeds. But all feed stuff is short(ish) and links thru to the blogger’s site.
There should be a feed. I can’t imagine why it’s not there - being the non-technie. I’ll sort it.
I also ahve a problem with the Ireland feed which is massively misbehaving but that should be sorted out soon.
The thing I’d like to know from you is where other than WRIPE features are you seeing full stories?
Hi Haydn,
Sorry. The landing page looks fantastic and I really like the layout - it feels like a web magazine should. It’s just the awfulness of links-that-open-new-windows temporarily blinded me to the good bits. Beautiful layout - not sure about the fact that every article links to a different site though - could be visually jarring to the reader in that 90’s era Wired way.
My bad, I was looking at the “Irish Struggle…” story and just saw that the URL in the address bar was a Wripe one but now that I look at the page, I see it is entirely from their site. I am seeing some strange DNS errors appearing on the top of that page tho.
I’m just going by the Firefox detection of feeds and it sees none on the front page.
Haydn,
Good luck on your new adventure. Landing page looks great.
Vernon
I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins that require me to put some line in the comment loop; I can never seem to find the right spot. Can anyone tell me where I should put the php line in my comments loop? I haven not modified anything much, and I would be very grateful. Thanks!