Fiction Fundamentals

While I’m on this web site makeover kick, I gave my Fiction Fundamentals site a facelift, thanks to the guys over at Quommunication. I still have a few kinks to work out with the new theme.

For one thing, since I began blogging in the days before “Tags” were part of the WordPress platform (without the use of an external plug-in), I used “Categories” like tags. Now that the Tag feature is part of daily blogging life, it’s best to use Categories like Departments, and picking one per post, and then tag the post to classify it with related posts.

Since the newer releases of WordPress include the Tag feature, I really need to go through all my old posts and re-categorize them and tag them. That’ll be a chore, but it will make my sites more user-friendly. I’ll add that to my to-do list.

The News Theme (pictured in the above screen shot) has a number of features, including Sub-Categories. I’ve seen Sub-Pages in many themes, but most don’t support lumping various related categories under one heading. I did re-organize the dozens of categories I had on this site, and now just a few display across the nav bar with a nice drop-down list of the subs for each one. Pretty spiff!