Category Icons
For the next step in customizing my blog, I’ve decided to go back to using categories, but in a very limited way. Here’s the deal …
I have always had a web site (”blog” for you young kids) where I post stories, pictures, opinions, links and other stuff I think my friends and family might find interesting. In recent years that has become mostly about pictures, as you can see at Mahugh.com.
But now, as part of my new job, I’m going to start posting more technical content related to Office 12 and Sharepoint software development topics. So the site will have two types of content, and two groups of readers that may overlap a little. My Mom probably won’t take the time to try any of the Office 12 code samples I’ll be posting, and I’m guessing that an ISV I direct to my blog may be similarly uninterested in the latest pictures of Megan’s cats. (Well, you never know.)
So I’m going to hack The Wordpress Loop that drives my Wordpress blog, and make it distinguish between these two posts in a visual way. I want all posts to appear in a predictable chronological order, but I want it to be obvious at a glance which ones are from Doug the Office 12 Evangelist and which are from Doug the Amateur Photographer.
When I’m writing as an Office 12 Evangelist, I’ll categorize those posts in a way that makes the Office logo appear on them, as shown here.
And when I’m posting my pictures or other non-business stuff, I’ll make it show a little icon of me with my camera.
Now I just have to get that working, of course …
This entry was posted on Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 2:48 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on December 29, 2005 at 5:18 pm Megan wrote:
“and I’m guessing that an ISV I direct to my blog may be similarly uninterested in the latest pictures of Megan’s cats”
How would Isaac feel if he could read that?
on December 30, 2005 at 9:12 am Doug wrote:
Soft as silk, I’m sure.
on December 30, 2005 at 8:50 pm Isaac wrote:
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on December 30, 2005 at 8:52 pm Doug wrote:
If only he could read as well as he writes.