Getting there!
After utterly of lot of work restructuring thinkBuddha.org, things have been commencement to tumble in to place. The site is not yet utterly how we wish it to be, as well as Ive got utterly the few some-more articles which need to be republishing, though the transformation from blog to essay repository seems to be starting well so far. Its surprising how most fluff, how most lax ends as well as pieces as well as pieces, the website can collect up over 5 years. Thankfully Textpattern, which this site uses, is the extremely flexible, as well as creates this kind of spade-work rsther than simpler than it might otherwise be.
So what has changed, or what is becoming different other than the tweaks in the look of the site? Well, gone is the blogginess of the front page with posts in descending order of date. Instead, Ill be environment up the page which introduces the site, highlights brand new articles as well as so on. The front page still has the approach to go, though already Ive got the small nice links to pointless articles as well as featured articles (which we will shift from time to time). Secondly, Ive restructured the content, so now it falls in to two broad camps, upon the a single hand news as well as upon the other hand articles. News is is simply things about the site, or things about me, or anything which is some-more or reduction time-sensitive. So, for example, if Im divided upon the retreat, or if we have the book entrance out, we might post something in the headlines section. Updates to the headlines territory should appear in your RSS feed, as well as will be linked upon the front page. The headlines territory of the site (which we have been celebration of the mass now) will keep the rough blog-like format. Most of the headlines will be comparatively ephemeral. Articles have been all the pieces which have been some-more substantial in terms of calm essays, thoughts upon this as well as that, book reviews, interviews (Im meditative w! e might begin the small interviews here, as it could be fun) as well as which have been reduction time-sensitive.
The devise with the articles is this. Ill couple to anything brand new upon the front page, as well as brand new articles will additionally be enclosed in the site RSS feed. The columns at the bottom of the front page will additionally indicate to recently commented as well as notable articles (as well as articles chosen at random). But when we click upon the articles couple upon the menu, we will be taken to the poke page, where we can poke by tag, perspective the entire repository by date, or poke by keyword. This should, we hope, meant which its simpler to find your approach to the some-more problematic corners of the website, to those articles which have been languishing since 2006, say. The make use of of tags, we hope, should make the transformation by the sea of articles which has accumulated here the bit some-more intuitive. And the separation of headlines as well as articles means which we have been some-more likely, when rummaging by the archive, to come across something with at slightest the small substance, as well as reduction expected to come up with jokes about Bodhicattva, the thinkBuddha cat (although Im making no promises).
Anyway, theres still the approach to go, though we thought it was worth posting an update. Thanks to all of we for your patience.
