I want to continue blogging on personal topics: particularly investment, but anything else continues to be fair game. They’re going to have their own section of the site, but I need to bear in mind that today’s interest may become the business of tomorrow.

The work I’m targeting must determine content that’s pertinent to the business blog. I’ve focused on web development and administration to date, and I think this will continue. However, I could leverage my experience in project management and engineering teams better.

I’d like to improve the RSS provision and integrate other social media on the site, but that’s for another post.

Although I’m going to radically change the category structure on the site, I’m keen to avoid breaking the Web. This is where the permalinks should come into their own… I hope.

• The title of the post.
• The name of the author.
• The date on which the post was published.
• An excerpt from the content.
• The post body itself.
• The tags associated with the post.
• The categories into which the post has been placed.

I’m sure that there are more, but this is as far as I got… so the big question is how do I mark this lot up in order to extract even more meaning?

The two text fields, both being content; the excerpt and post body; don’t necessarily need any container since they’re build from paragraphs. However using <div> would give me a lot more control over the CSS, but is this adding unnecessary mark-up?

I thought about creating an unordered list out of the post metadata; author, date, tags and categories. It’s all very well describing the whole lot using the ‘metadata’ label, but that’s not very helpful because they don’t belong together.

I figure that the tags and categories are easy since they’re obviously lists, and unordered ones at that. But the title, author and date are a different matter. Including them to a list is definitely adding extra mark—up, so I haven’t.

This is definitely an ongoing problem.

I’ve always edited my online content remotely, I have a local copy and can work off–line. I use TextMate for most of my development work and I’ve been using it for blogging too.

OK… I was reluctant to change. I like having full control over mark–up and haven’t been impressed by a WYSIWYG editor yet, for Web use at least. Untried, I ranked MarsEdit amongst them.

I must apologise to the developers. It’s a great and flexible tool. Hope I’ll be doing a little more blogging!