Knoxify

A cou­ple of weeks have passed and the side­bar bat­tle has finally ended, for now.

Out­side of the main con­tent area, the right side of this blog is com­prised of 2 side­bars; one con­tain­ing out­side infor­ma­tion and another with an inter­nal con­tent focus.

The third col­umn or far right side­bar used to con­tain our post cat­e­gories and a robust blogroll. No longer is that the case.

Blogs and cat­e­gories go hand-in-hand only if they’re used for the ben­e­fit of the site and the read­ers. Most tend to think of cat­e­gories as nav­i­ga­tional bea­cons for vis­i­tors but in real­ity, they should be tools that empower a dynamic experience.

With that said, we are now using cat­e­gories to power 3 new sec­tions to the right sidebar:

1. Our Fresh­est Con­tent — The last 5 pub­lished posts other than the most recent article.
2. Most Pop­u­lar Posts — Top 10 posts with a lot of user par­tic­i­pa­tion, clicks via our RSS feed and/or amongst the top con­tent in Google Analytics.
3. Polit­i­cal Cov­er­age — Our Knox County gov­ern­ment cov­er­age has been high in traf­fic and we wanted a des­ig­nated place to show­case the last 5 posts. This sec­tion may vary as elec­tions come and go and new top­ics rise to the top.

Hav­ing blogroll with­drawal? Leave us a com­ment about it.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by mikou07kougou