I direct your attention to the latest site updates to show off just what all's going on underneath the hood. There are some cosmetic changes in the template, as well as changes to help game Technorati. But mostly it's to make the site more functional.

You'll notice on the page, there's a new menu (brought to you by the nice folks at Semiologic), full of the most recent posts, regardless of where they are posted. That will help Technorati figure out what's new, and it will also help people get a sense of the chronology. While I've tried to bury as much of the bloggy nature of WordPress, it still needs to have those reverse-chronological entries for other systems, and people, to understand.

Also, the header menu changed. Now there's only four links: Home, News, Linkness, and Contact. Almost 100% of the hits either go to the exact page they saw in the RSS or to the homepage and off the site. What few people did click on the menu then took a tour using the links up there, and left. That's fine, if I didn't want them ever coming back...but I do.

Therefore, I'd rather have an old, guided tour than the instant, pedantic posts all in a row. If I was really all about the numbers, I'd just put every post on one page. You'll start to see posts here guiding you through the massive complex tapestry of information we like to call "MacStansbury.com."

status: published
lastmod: '2006-10-26T19:31:00.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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