Now with added tagging goodness
I've been wanting to add tagging to my blog posts for a while now, but Blogger don't provide the facility "built-in" and I've not had the time or inclination to program anything myself.
So when I saw Wanabo, a service that offered to do it all for me, I decided to give it a whirl. Every individual blog entry page (the permalink page) has a tags section in the left column, powered by Wanabo.
There are several things I like about it. Firstly, unlike many blog implementations of tagging, it's dynamically editable by visitors. This gives it the feel of "Web 2.0", "folksonomy", "social software" and any other web buzzword you care to mention.
It also automatically adds tags based on search engine traffic. Not sure if I like this feature so much, it's already stuck some rather odd tags on some pages! But I can always turn this feature off later on if it's not useful.
The "related pages" and "tag cloud" features work quite well, although I would have liked to be able to change the style of those pages, and number of links shown.
Talking of styles, I had to hit the code snippet with a big CSS hammer to get it to fit into my template style. Heavy use of negative margin-left values, CSS fans! One tip I picked up from Jessica is to use MODIv2 to examine pages. It reveals the inner structures of code snippets, letting you see what style tags they've used, so that you edit them your own way. (Try MODIv2 on this page)
So far the good outweighs the bad with Wanabo, but it still feels a bit "beta". Hopefully they'll give it a few more features, a documented API interface would be nice. Give it a try on my blog, tag something up, and let me know what you think!
So when I saw Wanabo, a service that offered to do it all for me, I decided to give it a whirl. Every individual blog entry page (the permalink page) has a tags section in the left column, powered by Wanabo.
There are several things I like about it. Firstly, unlike many blog implementations of tagging, it's dynamically editable by visitors. This gives it the feel of "Web 2.0", "folksonomy", "social software" and any other web buzzword you care to mention.
It also automatically adds tags based on search engine traffic. Not sure if I like this feature so much, it's already stuck some rather odd tags on some pages! But I can always turn this feature off later on if it's not useful.
The "related pages" and "tag cloud" features work quite well, although I would have liked to be able to change the style of those pages, and number of links shown.
Talking of styles, I had to hit the code snippet with a big CSS hammer to get it to fit into my template style. Heavy use of negative margin-left values, CSS fans! One tip I picked up from Jessica is to use MODIv2 to examine pages. It reveals the inner structures of code snippets, letting you see what style tags they've used, so that you edit them your own way. (Try MODIv2 on this page)
So far the good outweighs the bad with Wanabo, but it still feels a bit "beta". Hopefully they'll give it a few more features, a documented API interface would be nice. Give it a try on my blog, tag something up, and let me know what you think!
The "point" at the moment is it gives people a way to jump to posts with a similar theme within my blog, and to tag posts themselves.
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