Site Screwyness

The redesign has a lot of implications for me - first and foremost in the way that I write and publish articles from the standpoint of the admin interface. It has occurred to me that having a significant amount of text in the "entry body" portion of the article from within the MT interface is not such a good idea. This causes a significant amount of text to get regurgitated on other pages - such as the category indexes among other things - potentially causing duplicate content penalties. The entry body section also gets published within my RSS feeds and that's a bit of a problem from the standpoint that it's exceedingly easy for others to copy my content onto their sites. Not that I have the greatest content in the world, but I see more than my share of fourth tier spider activity.

I'm also migrating exclusively to a nutch based search interface, and I've not done much in the way of keeping the index updated or in actually redesigning the pages. I expect that will turn into a priority soon.

I'm implementing a related links manager, and a vBulletin integration for comments. You may find your comments missing for the time being while I figure out a clean way to get them migrated over. These will be released to the general public when I can wrap my brain around various open source licenses and their implications. Also, they need to be documented and documenting the installation has been the biggest holdback in my releasing my syntax highlighter, so don't hold your breath. There should also be coming along soon, a feature photo manager and an article photo manager as those are things I really want to have handled.

Really, the push to get this out is part of my own internal sense of urgency in moving forward with various web business strategies. I'm holding back too much and holding back means that I'm taking too long to get moving - so I'm really pushing myself towards a "get things done and out there" sort of a mindset. I feel I can be much more productive if I'm splitting development time between management and promotional activity so I can actually reap some of the benefits of my work as I do it - which should increase my productivity from a psychological standpoint. Yes, I'm psycho-analyzing my own productivity levels. You knew I was a nerd.