food blog

[loydall]

Hi - hope this is the right board to post this on.

Not really a gallery site but it has many of my photos on. I'm putting together a food blog and it's a good excuse to practice my food photography:

http://food.johnloydall.co.uk/

Take a look around if you fancy - there's more photos through the site.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Thanks.

[Hikin Mike]

Now I'm hungry...LOL!!

I would like to see a thumbnail photo on each preview entry (i.e Continue Reading...), similar to what I did on my blog. Other than that I like it and I may have to subscribe.

Are you a chef or do you just love to cook?

[loydall]

Thanks - that's a great idea regarding the thumbnails - will see if I can get them added when I get a chance.

I just love to cook - the blog is really a way of me keeping notes on my fave meals. Plus - if I photograph them and put them online it makes me work a bit harder at making the food as best as I can which helps me improve.

Thanks for your comments.

[renlok]

Your 12 Hour Brisket looks SOOOO GOOD, Love a good brisket!!!

Sites looking good, good content, easy to read
just a few suggestions:
Like mike said, thumbnials would be cool
Under each heading it says "by admin" I would change that to "by John" it lets users connect to you better.
I would think about putting your post into some sort of category(e.g bbq, bake, fried). Not really sure how you should split up a food blog maybe have a look around. it would help users in the future, that come back to try fine a particular post.

apart from that, site looks good. its clean and simple, like it
keep it up. I'll definitely keep an eye on it

[Hikin Mike]

One more thing, I wouldn't mind subscribing, but I don't see a way to do it.

[loydall]

Thanks for the comments guys. When I get a chance I'll update - all those suggestions will be useful.

[loydall]

Originally Posted by Hikin Mike

One more thing, I wouldn't mind subscribing, but I don't see a way to do it.

When you say subscribe do you mean an RSS feed? There's a little rss icon at the top right of each page.

Is that what you meant?

Cheers.

[BasAndrews]

A great site, love the photographs.

[Hikin Mike]

Originally Posted by loydall

When you say subscribe do you mean an RSS feed? There's a little rss icon at the top right of each page.

Is that what you meant?

Cheers.

I was looking for a "Subscribe via E-mail" link. The only two subscriptions I have (use) had a "Subscribe via E-mail" link. I just subscribed using Google Reader.

[loydall]

Ah ok, thanks. Think I can set that option as well.

Cheers for getting back to me.

[loydall]

I've set up a subscribe link on the site now if you're interested.

[Hikin Mike]

Originally Posted by loydall

I've set up a subscribe link on the site now if you're interested.

Subscribed.

What plugin are you using? I set mine via Feedburner.

[loydall]

It's called subscribe2 - It's got a fair few options that I haven't used yet and does offer stats and user management. Need to spend a bit of time getting the most out of it.

Cheers for your interest.

[Hikin Mike]

Originally Posted by loydall

It's called subscribe2 - It's got a fair few options that I haven't used yet and does offer stats and user management. Need to spend a bit of time getting the most out of it.

Cheers for your interest.

I downloaded it a while ago and never could figure it out. Guess I'll try it again...