Some time had passed after I started blogging before I realized I needed categories. Desperately. Especially for this kind of blog.
To my dismay, I realized that Blogger doesn't support categories unlike other blog services. I thought for a while of switching services, but it seemed too complicated. Then I though of writing something myself seeing that I have been a programmer in my previous life.
But then it hit me. I can't be the only one who wished for categories in Blogger. A quick search directed me to FreshBlog where I found a wonderful How To and a very helpful blogger. The How To lists bookmarklet from Ted Ernst's Humanize the Earth! blog, and voila, I now have categories. It's not as pretty, elegant and direct as I would have wanted it to be, but it's good enough for now and serves another purpose of tagging my posts.
The How To from FreshBlog - How to use del.icio.us for blogger categories
Ted Ernst's bookmarklet - technorati and delicious tagging
Categories: blogging
5 comments:
Best of luck with the categories!!
Thanks, and thanks again for all your help.
double :)
A more integrated categories method for browsers using Firefox: I have modified an existing greasemonkey script to output tags that are valid in both technorati and del.icio.us. The new script adds a line to the blogger "create post" form & makes tagging your post very easy!! Check out my post at Freshblog for more.
Thanks for the visits & the comments!! Much appreciated. Glad the posts are useful. As for technorati, I don't know why they can't see all your inbounds. I know they only index blogs not regular websites, & beyond that my guess is that they only see links from other blogs that have been claimed & are listed on the service? Their help page suggests this but doesn't say it outright. Maybe worth having bloglines citations too?
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