Lance is a Tool!
I put this new feature out there – "Custom Teasers" – without telling people about it. It's a great feature, methinks, but sort of wasted unless people know about the possibilities it offers. Please understand that if you leave the custom teaser field for your blog posts alone, everything will work as it always has. Sorry if I've made posting difficult for you! Here's how I explained the feature in another thread:
Say you post the following:
Title: This Is My Blog Post
Teaser: Was it what the Captain said that changed my life forever, or the way he said it? Read on to find out....
Body: 'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said....
On teaser pages (these include the front page, bluenc.com/blogs and your own blog), your post would look like this:
Title: This Is My Blog Post
Teaser: Was it what the Captain said that changed my life forever, or the way he said it? Read on to find out....
But when people click and go to the page where your blog post sits in its glorious entirety, they see:
Title: This Is My Blog Post
Body: 'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said: "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his crew, "Gather round, and I'll tell ye a tale." So the crew gathered round, and the captain said....
Because the teaser is now completely separate from the blog post, you can make it a more effective way of sharing with the reader the reason why she might want to read your post, whether it be the burning question you'll answer, a glimpse of the blinding insight you'll share or a juicy nibble from the hot gossip you'll be spreading. Without the custom teaser, you can do the same thing, but only if you are careful to make sure that the first paragraphs of your post work both as an intro and and advertisement.
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don'tdo say bad things about lanceDraft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Liddy 44 Brad 33
Custom teasers sounds pretty cool
What will you come up with next????
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.” So enjoy the drama.
Ok so
The teaser wont appear within the bulk of the post once people click on it. that is different from the above the fold below the fold stuff on other sites.
Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Liddy 44 Brad 33
Right
I'm not very much up on the state of the blogging arts, but I used to have this feature in Movable Type, and I really enjoyed the flexibility it offered. But my tooliness is all the greater if this isn't something being used elsewhere.
This is something they do at Orange Politics.
I like it.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
If you don't use the teaser
and let things go with the flow, be careful when you edit. You'll have to edit both the teaser and the main text because they don't "re-synchronize" after the initial post.
Good point!
Thank you....'cause you know I wouldn't think to edit both.
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Ohhh, that's where it goes
thanks for 'splainin Lance, (my dialy contribution), You're my HERO!
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