Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK

I finally got around to a bit of a site re-design last night- it’s a fairly straightforward modification of the original light theme, and sorts out a few issues I’d been having with custom php and text widgets. Actually, I should confess that I’m a complete loser when it comes to the design part of web-design, so I got my web-designer hubby to help with it. Thanks Barry!

Those of you that tend to visit only through your rss reader won’t, of course, be able to see any difference, so if you fancy popping around for a look at the new design, come on in, I’ll put the kettle on.

I also got the site running a little more quickly by disabling a bunch of plugins that I’m not really using. In the process I disabled geopress, which was a shame, but I hadn’t really been using it and it certainly had an adverse affect on the speed of the site.

I’m still very keen to investigate geotagging and georss, but I haven’t yet found the solution that works for me. What I want is something a bit simpler than geopress- I don’t necessarily want the map, just the coordinates embedded in every post, with a default set to my home location and an option to add new coordinates if I’m posting from somewhere else. More tinkering required I think…

I thought I’d see what all the fuss is about with feedburner, so those of you that subscribe to my direct feed rather than through Planet Geospatial or Online Archaeology might like to re-subscribe to the feedburner feed instead. I understand from the feedburner pixies that simply clicking on the “subscribe” link will take you to the new feed, or you could just click here…

Cheers!

In which I finally learn how to add a dynamic blogroll to my blog… Read more »

Tomorrow (Thursday 6th September) is Archaeogeek’s 1st Birthday! Hooray! I won’t be able to post tomorrow as I will be in deepest darkest North Wales learning how to roll my kayak using the power of my mind alone, or something like that.

I hope to get a better posting rhythm soon- things are a little fraught at the moment because of things happening in my personal life (my parents and Grandparents have sold their houses in Kent- 300 miles from us, and moved to one big house in Kendal- 18 miles from us), and my work life (our company is also moving offices at the end of September). At some point I also need to prepare for FOSS4G, and finish up some ongoing projects. Ho hum…

Anyhow, it’s been fun. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed, and particular thanks to those who have posted comments- I am still ridiculously pleased every time someone does! Here’s to the next year!