Missing Links

It’ll not be visible to someone who just browses the first page, but over the past few days i’ve gone back through every entry and made the following updates:

1) Categories were temporarily lost. Had you clicked on one of the country links at the side in the past few days, you would have got only some of the intended results. Therefore I had to give each post a category (in the case of my blog, a country) all over again, and individually.

2) I added a few extra tags, including the trip name (if the entry was part of a trip). There will shortly be a page dedicated to the complete list of tags in an easily navigatable way.

3) Where entries were part of a wider trip, I have now included an option at the end of the entry to go to the next one via a link. I did this manually, so I expect there may be some mistakes. It also resulted in my hotmail inbox having over 100 comment moderation emails from wordpress for pingbacks.

4) I have justified all the writing, which seems neccessary with this new layout.

In the coming few days, I plan to finally update the site with new entries, add a few widgets to the sidebar, publish the tags page, and then start going back and writing proper descriptions for old entries.

Changes

All is go…

I have began working on a number of changes. Some will take a while to fully kick in. Here they are:

1) New Layout. New colour scheme. I haven’t decided if it is here to stay, but it’s nice for now. The reason i’m undecided is…

2) I have purchased a domain name and a hosting plan. At first I will probably only use the domain name, but I may start gradually transferring this blog to wordpress.org and my own host. Therefore, more freedom. At very least, i’ll have a neater name. And it was cheap.

3) Tags and categories are being swapped back. Countries will be categories again, everything else tags. The tags will now appear on a separate page.

4) There will be a few new pages brought into existence. One of these, as mentioned above will be a list of all the tags (far neater this way than all squeezed onto the main blog page). Either that or I will create a page for each type of tag i.e. “categories”, “people”, “cities” etc. Haven’t quite decided yet. Another page could be an “about me” section, or other writing.

5) I’ve started going back over old entries that were previously just pictures and adding some explanation to them. An example of this is the old Hong Kong entry from 1996. Clearly I won’t be able to spend too long doing this, so they won’t be up to the highest standard, but it’s better to have something there.

More to follow.

Problems

Several annoyances…

1) The categories on wordpress have inexplicably lost their heirarchy feature. I have emailed support to find out why.

2) I haven’t finished transferring all the tags to categories. I’ve only backdated it to about April 2007 so far.

3) I am once again unhappy with the layout and design. I still believe the 500 pixel width photographs are great for under the cut, but bulky and annoying as the “main” above cut photo.