Feb 5, 2007

A new look for the site

If you visit my pages regularly, you may have noticed a few changes. Rather than merely having one page for all of Transportaion History, now we have a number of categories. I am still working on moving my articles to the proper categories. The new categories here are Automotive, Maritime, Aviation, General, and Inventions. Inventions currently has zero posts, although there are probably a few things I could move there. I think this is a great step forward for organizing the information presented on Suite101. It will also give me direction towards filling gaps I was previously unaware of. This site is a never ending work in progress, and I've only been writing here since late July of last year, so there are a lot of untouched topics.

For this reason, I am also looking forward to reading posts from contributing writers. As I understand it, if you are an expert on a particular topic, and you are a Suite101 Member you will now be able to write and post on the site in the appropriate category. This can be a very good thing in that it will help to fill the gaps the feature writers for any category miss by focusing on their own particular interests. I am also hoping it will provide interesting and potentially inspiring content for me to read and learn from, giving me new direction and energy should I get a case of the dreaded "writer's block." For the reader, it also offers an opportunity to write, and maybe even make a few dollars from what you have written.

From my point of view, at this point, these appear to be mostly changes for the better. Maybe having contributing writers will help increase discussions as well.