Oli's Puzzle Blog

[mhuti]

I agree, a great start to a promising puzzle blog. I hope you keep it up and before you know it you'll have hundreds of puzzle reviews, links to good suppliers and important designers. A hyperlinked list, drop down menu or thumbnail menu etc. with quick links to specific puzzles on the home page (google registered page) should allow you to legitimately list all of the puzzles (or genre e.g twisty, wire, burr etc.) regardless of whether the information is on other pages. Don't forget there are sometimes more than one name for a puzzle and allow for differences like brainteaser/brain teaser etc. I love reading puzzle blogs and have found many by chance and by focused searching. Happy happy joy joy! as Stimpy would say.

[Goody54321]

I love the blog. I follow it daily in anticipation of the next puzzle being reviewed.

[Paradox]

Thank you very much guys! It's really great to hear that people are liking it thus far.

[KB64]

Hi Oli

Love the blog as well - now added to list of favourites for a nightly read.

Reckon you will get the chance to hands on loads of interesting puzzles at the MPP if you get there.

Notice you have already reviewed the T2 - I have a T3, T4 & T5 which will happily bring along for you to take a look at if required, although if we are at Allards then I believe he also has T2 - T5 anyway.

[smiteo]

I hadn't put two and two together to connect Oli and Paradox...
Very nice blog! Giving Brian a run for his money

-D

[Paradox]

Thanks guys! I'd be very grateful for anyone who is at the MPP to let me try out and take photos of some of their puzzles. It's a great way to get new content for my blog quite quickly.

Hehe! I wouldn't say I was giving Brian's blog a run for his money just yet. Actually Brian has been absolutely brilliant with helping get my blog noticed, along with quite a few other collectors/shops, so I can't thank them enough.

[TheJuggler]

One small thought for you Paradox, In your links, add target="top" so that when you click it, it will open in a new tab/page. That way you dont go away from your blog when checking out a supplier link etc. It's something I find rather distracting if I have to keep selecting open link in new page ...

Just my tuppence worth, based on experience as a web designer (past life).

[Paradox]

One small thought for you Paradox, In your links, add target="top" so that when you click it, it will open in a new tab/page. That way you dont go away from your blog when checking out a supplier link etc. It's something I find rather distracting if I have to keep selecting open link in new page ...

Just my tuppence worth, based on experience as a web designer (past life).

That's a great idea, and I have tried to configure the options to do just that, but Blogger (the site my blog is on) has it's own fully built 'gadgets' that you can use to do most things, and I use one of them to list my links. Unfortunately the option isn't there for it to open links into new pages.

I'm sure the whole thing could be rewritten into a html box to make it possible, but I have no idea about that kind of thing, so I'm kind of stuck really.

Any ideas on how to make it possible?

[adamwest]

You should have your own rating system and favorite list. Great blog.

[Paradox]

It's coming up to my first 1000 views for my blog, and a whole load of those have been referred from here! So thank you to all of you who keep regularly visiting!

I'm still really enjoying writing it, and hopefully I'll be getting and seeing some great new puzzles pretty soon.