Category Archives: Web-Design

1) The hard part for me about changing to each URL to a single keyword is that I have to be careful how I do it. Especially back when I used to do many short entries per day. I am thinking of whipping up a page for each month that both makes suggestions and shows me what I have used so far. I want to get the changeover done soon before the search engines react to the change. 2) 3) Rather than re-direct visitors directly to the new individual archives, I decided to redirect them to a page that allows them to choose. You can see the results via this Google Search. And speaking of search engines, I also updated the robots.txt for this site to make the archives offlimits. Oh, and the redirect page design is courtesy of Layout-o-Matic. 3) The obvious downside of misusing the keyword field is that even though I had not been using it, it would be unavailable in the future. I just found out from reading more on friendly URLs that this issue has been resolved with the Short Title Plugin. Square Brackets, here I come. Update: I developed a method of making the pages I wanted with the entry list sorted by keyword. Check out the September 2003 example.