I love grazing me, for information that is, not grass. The new blog post tool on the home page allows visitors to do exactly that and with more flexibility than ever before when it comes to Blog posts.Grazr is a fantastic little tool that allows me to publish the posts of the Blog on the home page (or any page on the site for that matter) automatically and allows the user to do much more besides.
We have used a similar publishing tool in the past but it was quite simplistic: it only produced a list of links to display. Grazr is very accomplished and below are just a few of the things you can achieve with the tool:
1. You can actually read the blog in the same window by clicking on the headline. The content will then expand / drop down below the headline.
2. Grazr provides a link to the blog post itself which can be opened by clicking the hash (#) symbol next to the headline.
3. Grazr allows you to open the Blog post menu as a pop-up window by clicking the icon that looks like a sheet hovering over another sheet in the top right corner.
4. Grazr allows you to change the view settings in your browser by clicking on the icon that looks like a window split in two. The options are slider, outline or three pane. The default setting I have chosen is outline (headlines with expansion option to show the text of a story when clicked).
5. Grazr allows you to post the content of The Model Catalogue blog onto you own web page in exactly the same way as I have done.
I hope you will agree this is another great addition to the site, however I cannot take credit for creating the tool; that must all go to the smart people at Grazr.
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Posted by Tom Jolly to The Model Catalogue Blog at 11/10/2006 09:33:00 AM
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