I’ve recently added some new features to the blog. This post will try to fill you in on a few of them.
Pictures
First, I’ve added some pictures to the gallery. None of them is particularly new, but you can see how they look. Please let me know if it doesn’t work like you think it should. We will continue to add pictures to the gallery as we have them.
Categories
Second, I realize that many of you are interested in news and updates, but don’t necessarily enjoy the other things we might write about. In order to help you out, we have some categories. You can see them in the sidebar to the right. If you click on one of the titles, it will take you to a page that has only those posts which have been filed in that category. So, if you’re interested only in news, click the news category (you can even bookmark it).
Feeds
For those of you who are more technologically inclined, I have added a category-specific RSS feed to each category. If you click the feed icon next to the category name, it will give you the link to the feed for only that category. You can insert the link into your RSS reader (like Google Reader) and get only those posts.
Of course, if you want the RSS feed from all the posts, you can find that link under the Meta heading on the sidebar.
Finding Posts
If you are looking for a particular post, you can search for it using the search field in the sidebar. If you know the title and the category, you can just type andrew-mel-garland.com/”category”/”post-title” into the address bar. If you know the date (or the approximate date) on which it was posted, you can click that date on the calendar to the right and find all posts from that date. If there are no posts, you won’t be able to click the number.
I’ll probably continue to add features as I find them and have time to work out their kinks. If you have a suggestion, please let me know.