Deciding on a site structure

August 16, 2007

I’ve been a little quiet for the last couple of days because I’ve been kicking around a few ideas, and right now deciding on the structure of my site has me stumped. Of course this blog is less than a month old, and I want to get this worked out before I put too much content up.

I know, I should have had this all squared away before I started, but I was really excited to have my own domain name, that I just had to get started.

My original idea was to set up a site that gets fairly technical, and use port 16 for personal stuff. The problem here is that I have somewhat limited time, so I don’t think that I’ll actually be able to create enough content for both. Recently I’ve been thinking that I might as well do both here on Port 16.

Right now my blog is at the root of the site, which I think will turn out to be a bad idea. If I ever want to do anything else with the site, then I will have to move everything around later, after I have created gobs of stuff. Either I’ll break any external links coming into the blog, or I’ll have to make all sorts of crazy redirects.

If nothing else, I think that I should move my blog into a /blog subdirectory, and either set up a place holder in the root, or a redirect, like Wendy Piersall does.

So thanks for reading, and stay tuned.

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