kartooner

Reg­u­lar read­ers (all two or three of you) will notice that I’ve imple­mented a cou­ple ‘note­wor­thy’ fea­tures on this site. The most notable fea­ture, for me any­ways, is the ‘Filed under’ (the default fil­ing mes­sage for WP) sub­header. Since port­ing this site over to Word­Press I’ve been eager to cat­e­go­rize all 330+ entries into their respec­tive cat­e­gory sections.

My ini­tial thought was to add a sec­tion on the side­bar called, of all things, “Cat­e­gories” and list the var­i­ous cat­e­gories for this site. How­ever, after much thought and con­tem­pla­tion, I real­ized that Paul Griffin’s method was a bet­ter adap­ta­tion. He sim­ply cre­ated a sub­header under the main header for each arti­cle dis­play­ing where the arti­cle had been posted to. Granted, he also has a cat­e­gory list on his side­bar, but I felt that you could just as eas­ily see my cat­e­gories dis­played both in the main index and in the indi­vid­ual archives.

I also included the arti­cle date and link to add your reply within the ‘Filed under’ sub­header, which served its pur­pose in mak­ing the arti­cles more read­able, in my opinion.

Futher­more, I cleaned and spruced up the side­bar a bit with user-friendly and graph­i­cal tweaks. I moved the float­ing search box into the Archives sec­tion, which makes sense if you think about it, and added a ‘Com­pletely Ran­dom’ sec­tion. This serves two func­tions; one, to make older arti­cles more acces­si­ble to new read­ers and two, it keeps things fresh by ran­domly dis­play­ing arti­cles from the database.

As the mil­lisec­onds, sec­onds, hours, days, weeks and months go by I’ll be adding other fea­tures (some invis­i­ble and oth­ers worth mentioning).