That’s right, you’re now looking at the new and imporved sevennine.net. So I’d like to introduce you to version 6, version 6 say hi everyone…
The site has been hack for a while, it needed to be fix and I like it. The mainly reason was because of the new toy, so I wanted to add a photoblog section. But the biggest thing for me was how do I combine three blogs (weblog, quicklinks and photoblog) into one page… I like how it turned out. I can’t lie Rannie’s site was a big influence. He’s got so many parts to it, but he brings it together nicely.
Cleaning House
One of the that I really wanted to do was clean up the WordPress installation, so I created a completely new instance of WP and added nothing but the content, i.e. no plugin info, new options, etc. So it’s a total clean slate for the bloat that this installation of WP has experienced.
I’ve decided that I would no longer support some of my plugins. I know that it’s not fair to write code then take it off, but I have and I did. Why? I don’t use them, so hard to have interest in their up-keep. Not to mention I’m realizing that Flickr is actually good and I don’t need to showcase the photos on my site, plus, photoblog + photo section… too much and it would be confusing to the visitor.
Tag You’re It!
Unlike certain schools in the US, tag[ging] is fully allowed. I got sick on having sub categories for my quicklinks and being limited to subcategories that are already created, tagging is the coolest thing since Web 1.9. Check out my archives to see it in action.
Smile at the Birdy
So I’ve now got a photoblog part of the site, why? Well it’s easy, now that I have a digital SLR I want to force myself to keep taking photo, so here’s how I plan to do it. I know that it’s reason that most people say when they start a photoblog but I’m no different. I need a little bit of a driving force to help me a bit.
So while the site is up right now, it’s not 100% perfect, so you may see some things jupmj around from visit to visit, it’s just me editing the layout. I know that there are a couple areas that aren’t set up yet, but let me play around with it and get those pages back online.