This Blog

The truth of the matter is that this blog has been drifting aimlessly for months (ever since August in fact). I love my blog, I really do but I've not been updating it as much as I'd like and that's pretty poor. The purpose of the blog is mainly personal, I blog for no particular reason. A bit of aide-mémoir, keeping in touch with friends and family, some thoughts, some gripes, moans and whinges... the usual stuff. Somewhere in the archives of the site there are a few gems of wisdom that are popular and have been of benefit to interested readers who may stumble upon this (my) corner of the interweb but I'm unhappy with it at the moment, can't put my finger on it... it's just no good.

I want to try and concentrate on the blog and make it a bit more interesting, useful... I don't know... better. So how do I plan to improve things, and to what end?

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1. Firstly, the look... I hate it! I know I've threatened to create my own template in the past but I just can't seem to get around to seeing it though to a successful conclusion. The template must change but I don't know when that will be. Gawd, not a good start eh? LOL.

2. Navigation, currently poor, a direct result of the template, and the fact that Blogger doesn't provide a "category" function for posts. I'm sure Blogger/ Google will eventually sort that one out but I'm trying to implement my own solution based on a "saved search" strategy. This has one drawback in that it relies on Google crawling the posts before it works (you will begin seeing it popping up at the end of posts but probably won't work fully for a while ;-).

Also need to add a more noticeable "Home" link for those that may arrive at a post from a search engine. I've already added a robots.txt file to remove the Archive directory from searches as they just confused the results so searching "digital-air" for individual posts should be better.

3. Content. The usual rubbish will continue but I want to post regularly and include more detailed subject matter in the odd post. Things like tutorials for Blender, samples of content created in Blender, reviews of hardware, software, gadgets etc that I've bought or researched. Make the content a bit more useful to those searching for information on things that I actually know something about or things that I want to know more about.

So, hopefully you'll notice the difference soon and I can get a lot more satisfaction from my blog and maybe even give something worthwhile back to the interweb in general. We shall see.

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