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Blog features

bullet Archives: "View as calendar", "View as list"
bullet Preview stage for admin submissions, save as draft? Save/Publish & Save/Withdraw, perhaps? "Show on public site" checkbox?
bullet In comment form add "notify me when this thread is updated" checkbox
bullet "Read more" links for longer entries
bullet In comment form use JS to move label text into fields and widen fields
bullet Try out mod_rails
bullet Caching is being done on live, but not read from. Read up on the apache config
bullet Merge long and short entries into a single column
bullet See if you can get thumbnails for video links (click for video overlay)
bullet Make a custom application error page
bullet Try and get a description to show up in Google results and a subtitle to show up in RSS subscriptions
bullet Try doing logger.silence in an around filter, also bring log rotation down to 10 files instead of 50
bullet Somehow try and retrieve the month and a half (Oct & Nov 2006) of bookmarks on del.icio.us that somehow didn't get carried over.
bullet Check where commenters are being referred from, spammers don't seem to be getting 404ed
check Add metadata icons, and change comments icon?
check Reviews (amazon affiliate link, some kind of rating)
check Add slug primary key to entry model (auto-generate, but allow override)
check Remember me checkbox on login form
check Implement caching
check Preview state when adding a comment
check Sensible page titles
check Route for posts should have hyphenated title in place of ID
check Add "quotes" content type
check override-able label text for form fields
check Previous and next entry links?
check Subversion repository on dev, check out to live
check buy domain name
check switch to production mode
check upload dev database
check CV page
check User feedback
check Static "about" page (colophon, links to profiles elsewhere)
check Do a proper design!
check Notification emails for comments
check Search (on site or off? all entries or just posts?)
check RSS feed (all entries or just posts? group short stuff?)
check Permalink / Comments for short stuff
check Tags page
check Make admin panel full width?
check check rss feed timestamp
check In comment form replace "url/email" field with "website" & "email" fields
check Comment spam prevention
check General design tidy up, comments, forms, submit buttons, off-grey, link highlights, footer, etc.
check Comment formatting (markdown? textilize?)
check Admin login and authorization on destructive actions
check Debug comments children_count (search for counter_cache)
check Tidy up old posts html, fix routing error for missing spacer.gif
check Comment preview mode doesn't work when there aren't any other comments yet. (Not bothering with markdown anymore, too problematic.)
check Check line-height issue with smallprint in comments
check Switch back to white background
check Add pygments or ruby equivalent for syntax highlighting
check IE bug fixing!