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date: 'Tuesday, August 20 2024' title: 'More of a content week than code week'
description: 'This was a content adding and mindless data entry kind of week. Boring, but very necessary. There are now 400+ tools and 80+ affiliate programs on the site.'
More of a content week than code week
Written by Brenda Zhang
Highlights:
This was a content adding and mindless data entry kind of week. Boring, but very necessary. There are now 400+ tools and 80+ affiliate programs on the site. Up from less than 150 and 50, respectively, just a week ago. There was a huge backlog of tools that were featured in past newsletter issues and never added to the website. And many of those tools had affiliate programs!
Created a More Tools Like This section for the tool pages. I associated all the tools with newsletter links so that readers can check out the newsletter issue the tool was featured in with similarly themed tools. Below that link, I also display 4 random tools from the directory with either the same main category or similar subcategories.
More stuff I did:
Edited and published over 10 blog posts written by my awesome writing team. I had quite a backlog to grind through. Luckily, most of these only need light editing and the addition of images, links, Insanely Cool Tips, CTAs components, and some SEO headings and phrasing tweaks.
Some much needed updates to past blog posts: grammar, heading tweaks, mid-post subscribe CTAs for the longer posts, fixing of broken links, and backlinking to tool pages instead of external pages more often.
Added the Other Directories page! There's a lot of directories and collections out there. Plenty of design inspiration, productivity tools, and knowledge to be found in the nooks and crannies of the internet.
Replaced a few of the categories in the Tool Directory with the categories that had a lot more tools and that more people care about.
Minor things you wouldn't care much about but I do:
Updated the style of images to have a softer border (in terms of curve and border color) to better match the rest of the site.
Updated the style of that little line below the title and author in blog posts. Instead of a text dashes, it's an actual stylized line now. Of course, it is purple. And it lines up perfectly with the website header background. Beautiful.
Removed unused dependencies that kept breaking the build and cleaned up the code a bit.
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