World History
If you are a regular at this blog, you will notice it looks a little different. The design is the same but there are some enhancements visible. Probably the most visible is the presence of labels on most of the blog posts.
What happened? I finally upgraded to the never version of Blogger. I dreaded doing this not knowing what problems would happen but it went smoothly. All I lost was my visitor counter at the bottom of the blog but that was easily restored. Using Blogger and making changes to the template and to the layout is much easier now.
And I love the ability to finally be able to add labels to posts! This will make it easy for visitors to find other posts on the same topic at this blog. So, I spent most of the weekend putting labels on most of the 900 posts I have created here since 2003. (A few posts were blog maintenance related or had other generic topics which deserved no label.) After a weekend of reviewing posts, I am done. I may change some labels and add more but I am mostly there.
It definitely showed me my interests and biases in history blogging. Here are my top labels:
American History (106)
Europe (85)
Ancient History (69)
Africa (66)
American Presidents (64)
Asia (63)
Roman History (52)
Teaching History (40)
I tend to gravitate to these areas. I will try to broaden out some more so that those areas lower on my label list get better coverage. This is the World History Blog so I do aim to spread my posts out over all areas of the world and to multiple time periods. If any one has any suggestions on how I can improve the label system on this blog, feel free to comment. A full list of my labels is visible on the lower left column of the blog.
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World History
Labels and the New Version of Blogger
If you are a regular at this blog, you will notice it looks a little different. The design is the same but there are some enhancements visible. Probably the most visible is the presence of labels on most of the blog posts.
What happened? I finally upgraded to the never version of Blogger. I dreaded doing this not knowing what problems would happen but it went smoothly. All I lost was my visitor counter at the bottom of the blog but that was easily restored. Using Blogger and making changes to the template and to the layout is much easier now.
And I love the ability to finally be able to add labels to posts! This will make it easy for visitors to find other posts on the same topic at this blog. So, I spent most of the weekend putting labels on most of the 900 posts I have created here since 2003. (A few posts were blog maintenance related or had other generic topics which deserved no label.) After a weekend of reviewing posts, I am done. I may change some labels and add more but I am mostly there.
It definitely showed me my interests and biases in history blogging. Here are my top labels:
American History (106)
Europe (85)
Ancient History (69)
Africa (66)
American Presidents (64)
Asia (63)
Roman History (52)
Teaching History (40)
I tend to gravitate to these areas. I will try to broaden out some more so that those areas lower on my label list get better coverage. This is the World History Blog so I do aim to spread my posts out over all areas of the world and to multiple time periods. If any one has any suggestions on how I can improve the label system on this blog, feel free to comment. A full list of my labels is visible on the lower left column of the blog.
- Final Call For The Carnival Of Bad History
I will be hosting the Carnival of Bad History at this blog on Friday, September 22nd. That means time is running out to submit a blog post that deals with bad history in the many ways that it often is manifested. Feel free to nominate one of your own...
- Asian History Carnival Coming To The World History Blog
I will be hosting the next Asian History Carnival here at the World History Blog on July 7th. Nominate posts here or send them directly to ?miland[at]usa2014[dot]com?. Here is some information on the Asian History Carnival from Jonathan Dresner: "When...
- Coming Anarchy
Coming Anarchy. I found this blog a few weeks ago. I discovered it when I noticed some visitors to the World History Blog were coming from this site. (I guess there is a link here on the large blogroll.) Anyway, I have really enjoyed reading the posts...
- Sumir-history
sumir-history. This is a thoughtful history blog by Sumir Sharma. The author has left several comments here in the past and has quoted me several times at his blog. The note on the top of the blog relates, "Postings Relating to Methodology in History,...
- Word Verification On Comments From Blogger
Word Verification on Comments from Blogger. I am very pleased that Blogger is now allowing the option of requiring word verification on comment posts. Since I have turned the comments back on at the World History Blog, I have had to manually remove about...