Last night we implemented the Post info widget in an effort to make the blog posts cleaner and highlight the content more. All weblogs show post statistics and links like post author, post date and time, post tags, bookmarking buttons, comments link, etc. inside blog posts. The placement and arrangement differs from one blog to another. These stats unlike websites, eventually distract the readers as also make the blog posts look croudy. So I thought to remove everything except the post content and came up with this new widget. Once you move your mouse pointer over the ‘info ..’ button it will be visible. Everything inside it is indexable by search engines just because only HTML, CSS and smurty have been used. I hope ours is much better than the one you see at Yahoo answers as everything is crawlable by the bots.
The widget on hover action will show the following infos and links:
»Permanent link: This is permanent link(parmalink) for that particular post.
»Published: The date in which the post was created or published.
»Contributor: The name of the contributor of that post.
»Tags: The tags associated with that post.
»Participate: We always encourage our valuable readers to participate in discussions to share their thoughts. Here you will find links to the discussion area and the benefits of joining us and contributing at WebTips.
The widget is designed in such a manner that we may even include some more post statistics like total number of views, comment excerpts (if any), related posts, etc.
We may even call it ‘Post stats’ widget! Lets see how things work. What do you thing in this regard? This is one more feature added to this site. We have already discussed how to create tool tip using HTML and CSS. The same technique is applied here.
