Well, for the time being at least. I decided to follow Byrne Reese's practice and reference cutline in the footer. I'm not sure it's the best design.
I like the three column idea, but it may be overkill for individual entries. I note that the New York Times does individual entries in two columns.
Also, I may want to use more color to define different areas of the site both making it a little less spartan and indicating different areas with different functionality. It's going to be an iterative approach.
One tool I'm going to be testing out as I iterate is google analytics. It appears to have great promise, providing all sorts of potential tracking features that I can use to help me figure out which parts of the site are working and which not. However, Google analytics is a pain to set up, rather finicky in how it accepts the web site URL you give it. We'll see how useful it actually winds up being.
The grand plan is to set this site up as part of a network of sites including Michigan Innovators and the Learning Remix site. It will be interesting to see how it is all working a year from now.
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