This blog is about to be born a second time, so to speak. A new chapter is starting, built on “cleaner foundations”, and quite big changes are on the way, for example:
- Sorting all 1644 posts into new categories. Since this is mostly a programming blog, I’m thinking of creating categories like .NET, Javascript, AJAX and CSS, Metro a.k.a. Modern UI, Development for Windows 8, Web Development, Desktop Development (all the “development” categories would get whatever I have just managed to pull off), and SQL Server – 7 in total
- I’d also like to have these categories: Music & YouTube Videos, Google & Android, Microsoft & Windows, Other Software (everything related to Linux, other OSes, and reviews of web and desktop software), Diary, Vosmrnda, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Books, and Other – 9 in total
- I’m not sure yet whether to put several categories on one post or start using labels (tags), which are only available in the Blogger web interface, not in Windows Live Writer. For now it looks like I’ll keep using categories only and no tags.
- Republishing my 829 drafts. Most of them were drafts hidden for specific reasons, not because they were unfinished articles. My goal is to stay at 0 drafts for as long as possible and use drafts only for what they are actually meant for.
- Replacing people’s full names with their initials (so John Smith becomes JS) – but not 100% of the time, I’ll judge each case individually – I don’t need people typing their name into a search engine and landing on my blog… I want people to come here for the content, not because they want to smear someone or dig up something about them
- Fixing the pages (Pages), so I don’t need a special category for them and don’t have to keep them among the posts, but in the regular pages instead – I already did this today
- Adding a “read more” break to every post, so you won’t be able to read them without clicking through
- Merging the posts from sunamodenik and 365 days in life of sunamo. At this point it looks more like all the posts from that category will go into the Diary category, because I’d like to have at most 16 categories so that Windows Live Writer doesn’t show me a scrollbar 😀 I already took that into account when planning the categories above. I don’t plan to ever start another 365 series.
- Where a post contains just 1 image, possibly with some description, delete it and move it to skydrive or google drive
- Until now I’ve been posting everything to my G+ programming page, my programming Twitter or the news section on sunamo.cz. From now on I’ll post everything only on the blog. I just hope this unity lasts a nice long time, because I always have to keep changing everything :(.
This will take a very long time, because I’ll be doing it only through the web interface of Blogger, which isn’t very intuitive, but I hope I’ll get it done – my determination is exceptionally high :). For that reason, I apologize if seemingly pointless posts and the like show up here – that will just be me testing something.