How about using a mix of hard-coded links and category listing for the sidebar?
Presently, when you go to "Home" you see:
Categories
ALL (Newest->Oldest)
Articles (0)
Antispam (0)
CSS (0)
Web Design (0)
XHTML (0)
Blubberton (0)
News (1)
Yuck! Seems like visitors should see somthing like what's below, instad.
Description
Search
Members
Sign In Box
Join
Inside
About Astonish Me! (hard link to about us)
Member Benefits (hard link to post)
Services (hard link to post)
Portfolio (hard link to Portfolio blog)
What People are saying (hard link to post)
b2evolution blogging (hard link to b2evo blog)
by topic(cat listing minus certain cats?)
Anti-spam
Comments
Site Critique
SEO
Enhancements
Better Blogging
CSS
Skins
(this would be a long list)
by type
Informative Articles
How-to Articles
Plug-ins
Skin Mods
Hacks
Scripts/Add-ons
Skin Downloads
Archives (Collapsible List of all stuff by "Type" category? With list of post titles upon expansion of "Type" (e.g. ... "Hacks")
I'm not quite sure how to do this in b2evo and it's quite different from our own menu system on Randso, as I just have a simple cat/sub-cat thing. We could do that here, using the types (plugins, articles, etc) as the main cat ... but then each main cat would ahve to have the same (and a really long list) of sub-cats (by topic) ... which doesn't seem either efficient or make for a very good list of cats on the sidebar.
Was thinking a FLAT cat structure where the main cat is the type and the topics are "extras", when making a post.
Will that work?
Front Page
I'm not sure what to do here. We have a "home" blog, but really, what is the content going to be. It seems we either need a static front page ... maybe it can be a "home" blog, with a few never-changing articles "about us" type stuff. OR we could go the other way and make it a blog all and have it update anytime we add new content anywhere? Dunno.
Regardless of content, we need to add some pleasing graphics or summat to the page, so it looks a tad nicer and inviting (looks very plain right now).
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