Okay. So you may have noticed that my blog design has changed a little. My long term goal is to develop my own theme using the Sandbox from plaintxt.org. (You can read about this in my earlier post). In the meantime, I have decided to use the K2 theme, which is an evolutionary design from the developer of Kubrick—the default theme that comes with WordPress.
This theme gives me a three column layout, plus it uses AJAX to bring some dynamic interaction to the blog. Check out the search box as an example.
And the extra column has also given me room to use the DiSo Actionstream plugin by Stephen Paul Weber. This is a neat little plugin that aggregates all my activity from other social sites into one stream, and displays it chronologically on my blog.
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.
Thanks to the guys over at ContentRobot my blog is now iPhone and iPod Touch friendly. They have developed a plugin and theme called iWPhone that work together to automatically format any WordPress blog for optimized viewing on the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. By examining the user agent string, the plugin only delivers the optimized theme if it detects an iPhone or iPod Touch is browsing the site.
Genius.
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