July 10, 2007

Segmenting My Personal Blog - Why?

After a year of sporadic blog posts, rourkem.com was very personal, but very random. It lacked focus. Were I a reader of this site, I couldn’t imagine staying subscribed when posts included information on SOA, web service provider reviews, and pasta recipes.

There are a number of great articles out there singing the merits of the focused blog. Those articles have merit, but aren’t 100% applicable — this is a personal site and a personal blog. I’m not trying to make money with rourkem.com. I simply want to share reviews I write and to share my experience with new services and new technologies. I want a place I can post recipes and food commentary for future reference. I want to write about concepts and ideas that I think friends or colleagues might be interested in.

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July 9, 2007

Category Based Permalinks with Wordpress

As part of a site overhaul, I moved from date-based permalinks to category-based permalinks. I did this to segment the site by top-level categories, and to improve search engine friendliness. Many people argue that this is a superior permalink structure, but very few point out the downsides.

Broken URLs are the single biggest problem. The initial change isn’t a big deal. I used Dean Lee’s Permalinks Migration plugin to redirect all the old URLs to the appropriate new URLs. Watch out, though: whenever you change a category you will end up with a broken URL that’s the above plug-in does not fix. Also, if you change the name of one of your categories, all of the posts under that category will have changed URLs.

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June 26, 2007

Standalone List Items in IE and Firefox

I ran into an annoying diference in the way IE7 and Firefox render pages. List items (<li>) not enclosed in a numbered or unnumbered list (<ul>, <ol>) display differently when the list is of type “none.” In IE, each list item’s first line will be indented, while in Firefox there is no indent. Setting margin or padding does not change this. The below code sample demostrates this issue.

<HEAD>
<STYLE type=”text/css”>
li {list-style: none;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<LI>foo
<LI>bar
<LI>foobar

</BODY>

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