This morning I was discussing blog taxonomy with my good friend Andy Cottingham. He was asking me to clarify what the difference was between categories and tags in WordPress, and how they should be used.
Generally speaking, the basic difference between categories and tags is as follows; categorization is a formal, rigid, and hierarchical taxonomy, whereas tagging is designed to be informal, flexible, and flat.
For this blog I have decided to use only one category (or in my case subject) per post, but many tags. As I get into developing my site with the Sandbox, you should begin to see how this approach can provide a very simple but dynamic information architecture.
I’ll be blogging more detail about this in the coming weeks.
Today I have begun to think about theming my blog, although I have to say that the default WordPress theme has grown on me. Looking around at the free themes on the Internet I am impressed at quality of many of them, but have decided to go for something that is uniquely mine.
So after some intense Googling I have decided to develop my own theme using the Sandbox from plaintxt.org.
The Sandbox is a framework theme that only requires additional CSS code to style the blog. The beauty of the Sandbox is that all the CSS class and ID hooks a designer could possibly need are generated for them automatically within clean XHTML code. This means it is theoretically possible to transform the blog into any design using only CSS code.
If you are a WordPress theme designer, you really should check the Sandbox out.
Well hello everyone! It is very late (or some would say very early) and I’ve at last managed to get the beginnings of a blog going. You wouldn’t believe the amount of stress I went through picking a domain for this blog, only to settle on ianjukes.org.
Creative genius right there.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me choose a name, and my apologies for badly wasting your time. I hope you’ll still read my blog.
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