As you know, I've been working very hard lately trying to draw more attention to the blogs. After speaking to numerous people, I think one of the main things holding them back is the confusing navigation unique to DaniWeb, with a steep learning curve.

For example, it seemed that for everyone I spoke to, I had to give a 5 minute long explanation as to how blogs are divided up into six categories corresponding to the forum categories, but there are also member blogs, and member blogs can be started by any member, but each entry of a member's blog belongs to one of the category blogs, and then individual blog entries can be featured, and featured blog entries appear on the homepage, but featured and non-featured blog entries appear on the category blogs, and then there are staff writer's blogs, and staff writers can feature their entries and other people's entries ... and then blog entries and blog categories can be sorted by views and comments and trackbacks and that's a whole thing just in itself ...........

And, well, you get the idea.

Last night, I redid the layout of the blogs section to be as completely simplistic as possible. The main goal was to put all of the focus and emphasis on the actual blog entries without diluting that content with weird navigation like category blogs and member blogs and featured blogs and sorting blogs.

So we'll see.