culann.com

So I’m sitting here, basking in the afterglow of fixing my archive title problem, and I’m thinking there’s something else I might as well change while I’m mucking around with the internals of the blog.

Voila! The blogroll that once graced the sidebar is gone, replaced with a list of recommended non-personal sites, technologies, and applications. As it turns out, I wasn’t using that blogroll very much anyway (at least, not once I found bloglines), so it was pretty much just taking up space.

I couldn’t resist making a couple of minor stylistic tweaks while I was in there, too, so now the sidebar links are normal weight and the headings are letterspaced just a bit to make them stand out more (and no, I don’t plan on stealing any sheep in the forseeable future).

While browsing through my traffic logs, I recently became aware of a problem with the site that I’m somewhat embarassed to admit. As you may or may not have noticed, all of the individual entry pages had the same title (archives ¤ culann.com). The problems with this naming issue (often seen on dynamic sites) are most obvious to searchers; try running this search on Google. If all goes well, you’ll see a long list of individual entries from this blog. Now imagine (if it wasn’t the case when you looked at the search results) that all of these entries began with archives ¤ culann.com. Would you know where to begin looking for, well, anything?

Fear not for the future! I just added the code required to properly title each individual entry. Search engines should pick up on the new titles over the next few cycles (though how long that’ll take will vary according to your preferred site). Soon, my lapse of usability judgement will be memorialized only by this entry - and any cached copies of the site that are floating around out there.

Ack - Sorry for the low traffic here in the last week or so; between school, work, and wedding planning I haven’t had as much time to write as I’d like to. I’ve got several posts in the pipeline (as it were), but I just haven’t been able to get ‘em done and out the door. Rest assured, though - more is coming.