I’m playing around with the templates this morning, trying to get an index working for this site and also adding a few things that are more or less invisible to you while reading in your average browser. I’m adding a few meta tags and adding some attributes to the various HTML tags in the templates.

The index has some more work to add to it and I’m not sure exactly how to go about doing this. I like the way the default index file template handles regular posts but I want to add a catagories index and I don’t think I have the time this morning to figure out exactly how I want to implement it. I’m really liking the simplicity and extensibility of Blosxom but it is going to take some time to work out how I want everything to work. The nice thing is that it is also so easy to implement things in stages and then back out and redo things if your original plans don’t work.

The next two items on my list is a valid RSS flavour and getting comments working. It looks like it will be the week after next before I can really spend any time on these things. I’ve got paying work to do next week and hopefully that will extend on for a few more weeks to come.

Mark points out that Amazon does provide some bad reviews of the books they sale. Okay, I’ll give them that. I’m still bothered by seeing everyone use them as a standard link for books. I will also agree that, for a bookseller, they are a better source for a raw review than B&N. I’ve looked at ISBN.nu and I’m not so happy with them either. I don’t disagree with Mark on anything he’s said about Amazon or the alternatives.

What I have done in the past is just Googled the title and author and picked the best non-bookseller review that I found in the results. It takes a little more time but I think that it gives my readers a better sense of my feelings on the book. Most likely I’ll pick a review that I’m in agreement with.