A little while ago I decided to start changing the way I blog. I just had too many blogs going on and I was trying to keep them on one specific topic. That just meant that the blogs were a little lifeless really. So I consolidated them down to just 3, this one, my walking one that I keep with Michelle and a secret one. I still keep thinking my blogging isn’t up to scratch so I read Andy’s post with interest.
The first thing that struck a chord with me was how it’s been picked up that Andy has to keep seemingly unrelated strings of stuff together with the only connection being him. This led me to the conclusion that categories and tags are something quite different and shouldn’t be used exclusively. So hopefully what you’ll see from me in the future is a categorisation of posts, some about me, some about work, some about social life and others just random. Then the tags will relate to specific posts, not themes, that span the categories. This way for those of you who view the blog you should be able to slice it in a way that means more to you.
The second thing someone brought up about Andy’s blog was his subscription badge. It was a little bit too far down. After seeing that I checked where mine was and realised that in my haste to change themes I’d forgotten to put any form of subscription link in the new one. So my next thing is to stick some RSS and e.mail subscription stuff into my blog. Somewhere fairly visible.
The other thing I want to do is tweak the CSS so that my widgets are dragged up from the bottom of the page into somewhere more visible. Not sure how to do that yet, either where to place them or what the code will look like!
Other than that I think I’m on the right track. Feel free to suggest improvements though if you are stopping by for a read.
