Archive for the ‘Organisation’ Category

Do we really need home pages any more?

Monday, May 12th, 2008 - Read the rest »

I have started a very significant redesign of this site and it occured to me that my home page isn’t very useful. I am considering doing away with it.
The move away from standard blog templates, where the home page contains the last three to five posts, to a more magazine / news style means that [...]

Making best use of your categories

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 - Read the rest »

Wayne Liew has written a post about making best use of the categories on your blog. He makes the point that the new year is a perfect time to take a look at your categories, that may have expanded significantly over the years, and clear them out.
I have been doing something like this today. I [...]

Doing more with widgets: Changing Layouts

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 - Read the rest »

A few weeks ago I showed how the home page contents could be moved into a widget to allow additional content to be added above and below it. That’s an interesting technique but not as interesting as this one. Using nested widgets to control the overall layout.
By nesting widgets it is a fairly simple process [...]

Plugin: Fun with guest posts

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 - Read the rest »

Writing guest posts on other blogs can be a pretty rewarding experience. Firstly you get to experience comments from a different audience, who may have something different to share, secondly you get a little more traffic back to your blog, but, once you’ve written your fabulous guest post how do you link to it from [...]

 

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