So far so good. Next on the list is a way of making the home page slightly more interesting by allowing for a mix of content - some to stay the same, e.g. an introductory paragraph, and some to change automatically - say the first bit of the latest page added...

But before that, perhaps it's time to move all the current guff away from the home page to a category...

This is a paragraph, (<p>), in a column on the right.

Half Baked Ideas - website seedlings and experiments

OK, perhaps 'half' is perhaps a bit generous...

I have had quite a few ideas for websites over the years. Some have been developed into reasonably successful projects, others have gone nowhere, and all need more time and work. Most of my time is spent working on client website projects for MJB Data Limited, and there is an argument for simply switching most of them off but I think there are a couple of strong reasons for continuing to develop them - firstly running my own websites help me see the process from a client's perspective and secondly one of more of them could take of and make me some money. It's also very useful to have websites to use to develop and test things, and a network of inter-linking websites can also increase the exposure on search engines for my websites and ins some cases my clients' websites too.

Another half-baked website idea?

Kind of. It's been my intention to use this site as a sort of directory of every website that I'm working on, and that's still probably what it will turn into. However, right now I have a few ideas about content management systems and CSS structure that I'd like to have a play with and as this website is not really established it won't do much harm if I pull it apart and fiddle with it.

Top of the list

Built-in CSS editing, rows and columns, and general 'which bit where' control.

Paradigm shift?

For the past few years I've based the sites I've built on the basis of websites being a collection of pages which themselves are made up of paragraphs of text and sometimes images. This model works quite well when you build one site after another that are totally independent. However, for a system for publishing lots of sites with the freedom for them to be radically different from one another - well it's time to try something radical.

Core elements

I'm picturing a blank page in an empty website and somewhere there is a link that says 'add element'. Now which elements? DIV is an obvious one as are P, H (with a size option). Also need to consider:

Horizontal rule, Anchor, Image, Span and Forms and Form-elements, (and presumably form-handling too).

Time for some testing...

P-tags can go inside DIVs but can heading tags go inside P-tags? The best way to answer such questions is to throw a page together and throw the W3's HTML validation script at it.