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Today I roll out the first phase of my blog overhaul since the blog is starting fresh since 21st November 2005.

So, what’s new today? A lot. Here’s what you’ll find when you browse through my blog you’ll find that all the previous categories have been deleted and replace by newly assign category. This explain why 98% of my previous entries belongs to “Uncategorized” category. Well this not mean all my previous entries will marked as Uncategorized forever. Few noteworthy entries that is popular among search engines are in the process to be categorized again.

New category

After last night I came out with a new posting category for my blogs. There’s a big chance that few new category will be added soon.

• Ask Zeo
  • Tutorial
  • Updates
• Internet
  • Blogs
  • Funny
  • Podcasts
  • Random
• Software
  • Applications
  • Commercial Software
  • Games
  • Open Source Software
    • WordPress
      • Plugins
• Web
  • Browser
    • IE
    • Mozilla
      • Firefox
        • Extension
      • Thunderbird
    • Opera
  • CSS
  • Design
  • HTML/XHTML
  • Standards
  • Validation

As you can see, instead of a single category, I’ve created hierarchical structure using subcategories. Categories provide an alternate means to the blog’s traditional chronological form of organizing entries. If you manage your entries and category properly, the more organize your blog will be. For example, previously this blog have two different categories, Games and Open Source Software(OSS). Instead of having that a new parent category, Software is created which contains both of those categories. Software now is considered to be the parent category of Games and Open Source Software.

But how about Folksonomy?

Folksonomy, a portmanteau word that combines “folk” and “taxonomy,” refers to the on-the-fly classifications (called tags or keywords) that Internet users freely invent to categorize the objects with which they interact online.

A criticism of folksonomies is that they encourage idiosyncratic tagging, with the use of synonyms lessening the value of the sum total of tags, increasing the complexity of retrieving content. Those who prefer top-down taxonomies/ ontologies argue that an agreed set of tags enables more efficient indexing and searching of content.

wikipedia.org

From the explaination above, I still consider Folksonomy or many refers it as “tagging” is for my blog external purposes.

My Wordpress blog and category

My Wordpress blog having problem moving posts that belong to deleted category. For example, there are 3 different category, One, Two and Three. Category One ID is 1, category Two ID is 2 and category Three ID is 3. From a default Wordpress installation ID 1 is category as Uncategorized which is also marked as the Default category. So everytime you delete a category that have a post, all the posts in that deleted category will be move to the Default category. Since I change the default category to Category Two which is ID 2, it seems that when I delete category Three all the posts from category Three should be move to category Two(which currently the default category). Instead of doing that, all the posts in the deleted category Three move have been move to category One.

If you look at the note from categories Administration Panel, it’s clearly stated that “Note: Deleting a category does not delete posts from that category, it will just set them back to the default category Two.” So I assuming that all posts that belongs to deleted category are move to category ID 1. Can’t determine whether it’s Wordpress behaviour to worked like that or my side fault. Better make some test before I post this to wp-testers mailing list.

Replacing <i></i>, <br /> and <bold></bold>

Can’t actually confirm that these was cause by b2 or by me(which at that time I was a total newbie with HTML tags). This blog database is originally a conversion from b2 cafelog to Wordpress that I’ve done few years ago. Even the table prefix haven’t change since the database first created.

My old entries from my early b2 have this <i></i>, <br /> and <bold></bold> HTML tags. So I decided to change <i></i> to <em></em>, <bold></bold> to <strong></strong> and remove the use of <br /> permanently which only takes a few minutes using phpmyadmin.

Below are some of the reason that why I choose to replace these HTML tags.

b could be used to make an element bold. Using strong (meaning strong emphasis) instead adds meaning, or to just add boldness, font-weight: bold in CSS does the job. i could be used to italicise an element. Using em (meaning emphasis) instead also adds meaning or font-style: italic can be used to just add the presentation.

htmldog.com

And finally, please consider using <p></p> instead of <br />.

Off-topic feedback and comment

To keep all entries discussion on track, I strongly urge that my fellow friends and visitors should consider to stay on-topic. Unfortunately from this entry onwards, all unrelated, off-topic comments will be deleted without notice. Again, your efforts and cooperation are highly appreciated.

So, that’s it for Phase 1 of my blog overhaul. Probably there’s a chance that there may be a few problems I didn’t catch, so if you see anything funny please be sure to get in touch.