I got kind of lazy when I was writing my posts and didn't bother categorising or tagging some a lot of them. I decided to look in to tags and categories a bit more encase I'm missing a trick.

There's lots of different opinions out there on them but my thoughts really are that if you have very fixed ideas and subject areas that you are going to base your blog on then use categories. Predefine your categories so that you can tailor each post for a specific topic. At a guess, I will probably end up having between 5 and 20 categories on this blog as it evolves. When using tags, I'll use the keywords related to my post and build up a list as I go. Obviously, if I see a tag that suits in the most popular tags list i'll drop it in but I'm not going to spend ages trying to configure them and pretend I'm some kind of SEO guru. So that's my thoughts on the area. I've looked at the guidelines in the WP Forum and I suppose from now on I'll try to keep my tags inline with the example of good tags at least. I'm sure there is varying opinions on how important tags and categories are in WordPress blogs but for now I wont be concentrating too much on them. Hopefully they'll help organise my site a link a few similar articles of interest along the way

I'm sure that when I investigate and add SEO plugins for this blog then my opinions may change but for now I'm keeping it simple. Anyone with other opinions feel free to drop me a comment and link back to your thoughts on the subject.

Another couple of things that I did today, a VB program to change php and vb code so that I can drop it in to my blog if need be. The idea came to me yesterday when I came across the 'code' tags and realised they didn't work for html or php on this blog. It's a pretty robust solution but it got the job done and I'll end up using it at some stage, I'm sure. This then triggered something else that I'd been thinking about doing. I'm keeping it to myself for now but it may be another project for me depending on how the initial coding goes and if I think it's worth pursuing. I wont be wasting my time anyway as I'll learn something and it shows that this blog is working as an ideas generating centre

After all that I actually added 3 categories and 4 tags to this p st......