dale lane

Holidays over… I’m back! I didn’t post much over Christmas, as I was trying my best to avoid computer screens for a couple of weeks.

That’s not to say that I didn’t learn anything new at all over the festive season. I learnt many things – for example, being at home with my daughter taught me that potty-training a two-year old isn’t the easiest task in the world and that if you’re made to watch The Snowman enough times it can actually drive you a little bonkers.

Board games with the family taught me such nuggets as that tiger stripes go through to the skin not just the colour of the fur.

And what little web access I got away with before getting glared at reminded me that Hursley can look pretty cool (thanks, Andy!).

Hope everyone else had a good break.

WordPress blogs don’t look great on PDAs like my phone. But I came across the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin, which produces a PDA-friendly version that is well suited to smaller screens. It rearranges the whole page layout, and makes it much easier to read.

If you have a WP blog and want to better support your mobile readers, then it’s worth a try.

I started an internal blog on the work intranet a couple of weeks ago. Two weeks later, I’ve finally got round to writing a second post. I’m not sure why I’ve found it harder to keep up a second blog – I guess part of it is that it’s harder to access the intranet one from home, and I can’t post from my phone. I’m going to try and write another post soon, though.

If you have access to the IBM intranet, take a look! (Better yet, help me out by answering the question there! ;-))

Does the look of blogs matter?

I’ve not done much to customize the look of this. I guess the main reason for that I because I read all of the blogs that I follow in an RSS reader (Egress, if you’re interested) which grabs the text and images. I hardly ever see what the actual site looks like.

It’s much the same with my own blog. I write most of the posts on my phone, so I don’t see the actual site often myself.

So, I’ve not had much incentive to change the appearance from the WordPress default.

Does that matter? Do people need a personalised look to the blogs that they read, or is the content enough?

This one is probably obvious to people more used to blogging, but I still thought this was pretty cool 🙂

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