Now the dust has settled a bit and I have gotten some things working that I always wanted, its time to talk about the new look. Better, yes? We have moved to a new blogging platform.
OK, so the look and feel is not so important, its the content right? Same old content but with some nice bells and whistles. Check out the bar on the left - if you're reading this via email, apparently about 600 of you, click here to see what Im talking about
- You get to see pics of where I live and work - not quite the view from my office window but not far away
- Much better search capabilities, 'Search All Blogs' will invoke the Oracle Enterprise search across all blogs. Yesterday, searching for 'bi' or 'xml publisher' did not find links to this blog .... ahem! Today we're top of the list.
The other search box is for Google to scour over the content here. - Useful links - I'll be expanding this for sure. Lots of comments recently about there not being a single source that pulls all the BIP content together!
- Recent comments - not sure how useful this is and it needs some work on the formatting ...
- Recent Posts - nuff said!
- Top Tags - finally we have tagging! The top tags are a little skewed right now as I have been trawling back through the 300 odd posts tagging and re-categorizing them. Im about a third of the way through - bear with me. Should be useful thou, if your looking for something in particular.
- Categories - the new platform supports multiple categories and hierarchical ones at that. I have tried to break things down without going to crazy - the numbers next to the categories are again skewed as I work through articles. Have put a shout out to uber blogger Steven for slogging through the reformatting of the hierachy to make it readable!
- Publisher Blogs - no blogroll right now, this is a list of the latest blog articles about 'BI Publisher' or 'XML Publisher'. Google provides a neat RSS feed of the blog search I set up and WebRSS allows me to be lazee and formats into a list for me. I have not worked out how to exclude yours truly from the list yet! Want to subscribe to the RSS feed from the Google search? hit the RSS icon. Get your article on the blog!
- Subscriptions - RSS is there of course and you can still get the daily email of the latest article via Feedburner.
There it is, standard stuff for most of you bloggers out there but we are finally catching up. If you have ideas for more 'stuff' let me know.
