May 16 2012

Category changes

Today I made some changes to the category structure of the blog.

Firstly, I added a “Food and Drink” section, which will be used to review restaurants, dishes, and libations that I try. I’m hoping that it gets a lot of use as I continue to learn and understand more about the wines of the world.

Secondly, I added the subcategories of “Music” and “Film” to the “Multimedia” category. As I go through and tag previous posts, I will also be reclassifying some of them accordingly. I decided to leave “Photography” separate from the “Multimedia” category, as it is essentially just my own work.

Thirdly, I added the “Travels” category, which will have journals about my trips. I have a bunch of those posts that I need to reclassify now. 🙂

Lastly, I removed the “Ramblings” category as it only had four posts. For now, I’ve just moved them into the “General” section.

Cheers,
Zach

May 15 2012

Added the section about me

Well I didn’t get all that much done today in terms of my goals for the blog, but I did update the “About me” post, and linked it to the top menu. If you’re interested in reading a short synoptic biography about me, feel free to check it out by clicking on the “About me” link right under the banner. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get started on retroactively tagging some of my previous posts. I would highly doubt that I could finish that task tomorrow, but it would be good to at least get started. 🙂

Cheers,
Zach

May 14 2012

Blog features

I’ve been working on several features of my new blog, and things are progressing quite nicely (though there’s still a lot of work to be done). Firstly, I’ve added a custom menu bar at the top of the postings section (right below the image banner). Right now it links to the home page of my blog, a posting about me (which isn’t there yet), links to the charities and groups that I actively support, and some of my current projects and affiliations. As soon as I have some type of short bio blurb about myself, I’ll link it to the “About me” menu. Until then, I urge you to check out some of the amazing groups under the “Charities” submenu.

Secondly, I’ve ported over all of the random quotations that I had on my previous blogging software. They are currently displayed in the section between the category listing and the calendar. I’m sure that I will continue to add quotes as time goes on, and as I find ones that strike me. If you have any recommendations, be sure to drop me a line in the comments section. 🙂

Thirdly, with the tagging feature of WP, I really need to go back and add tags to all of my previous posts. That will take quite a while to do, but I think that it will really be worth it. It will force me to further categorise my posts, and will help me find trends in my writings. Overall, a good goal, I think.

I think that’s about it for now, but hopefully I will be able to work on those three things more over the course of the week and this upcoming weekend.

Cheers,
Zach