How to read this blog..
I am trying to encorage the punters to take an active role in the blog (it is basically about them so they might as well write it!) but many people are confused when I show them the site and when they first approach things.
So here’s a FAQ.
Whats a blog?
Its just an online diary that is easier to update than a traditional web page.
How do I read it?
The blog itself is just a series of daily postings, with the newest at the top. Each new posting pushes the others down so the page becomes ordered in reverse order, chronologically.
Old posts are listed in the footer under “Monthly archives”
What are “categories”?
Furthermore, each post has a “category” to ease searching. I have the following categories..
- Dates/free spaces: Any spaces or free dates that become available
- Day to day doings: Just stuff that happens from time to time that caught my fancy
- Dives: Every day I list the dives and weather
- Punterblog: Entries written by the troops themselves
- Winter: Stuff I do in the winter
- Wouldn’t bother: As it says on the tin
This is just a way of indexing posts so that if, say, you are just wanting to know what dives folks have done recently, you can do a search for entries in the “dives” category.
What are “pages”?
There are “pages” that are more akin to traditional web sites. these are listed at the bottom of the page in a footer and work in the traditional manner. Amongst them, the site map is probrably the most useful, though the weather page can be a useful reference.
I want to get involved..
Post a comment: they appear at the end of each post.
I wanna come diving..
Check out late availability or drop me an email: bob@mvhalton.co.uk
The text is too small..
Press “Cntr” and “+”
Is there a spell checker?
Nope. Can’t you tell. In truth, the site is designed to be “throw away” in the long term… todays dives will not be on interest in a year.. so I don’t pay too much heed to typos.
