I’ve decided to move most true articles to a dedicated articles section of the webpage. I’ve noticed that a lot of people use a blog for full-fledged articles, and I don’t want to make that mistake.
Having a dedicated article section provides a benefit to readers in the following ways:
- Readers can find prior articles they read fast due to a better organizational structure
- Readers can expect valuable articles to be updated (sometimes regularly)
- Interlinking articles will become normalized, leading to a more seamless article browsing experience
The landing page for all articles is williamlupinacci.com/articles. The articles are organized by topic. Each topic landing page is appended to the URL for the article landing page. For example, the virtual-worlds topic landing page is williamlupinacci.com/articles/virtual-worlds.
All articles belonging to a topic has its own internal wiki-like structure. I would not call this a bliki (because it is not a blog), nor is it truly a wiki (because there is only ever one author). By a wiki-like structure I mean all links within article bodies will always be internal links within the topic, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
So basically there will be a lot of interlinking, making browsing fun. And that is the main point of it all, fun.
There are hundreds of articles I have written that are either on some storage device somewhere, on archival sites or on sites no one reads anymore. Some of that stuff decent or at least informative. So some of that stuff will be moved here.
There will also be some short, placeholder articles (“stubs”). As each article is “living”, they are subject to be expanded or changed at any time. If any are changed it will reflect in an update date of the article beneath the article title.
Other site updates
I’ve been redoing the site CSS to a light theme, and I think that is fully done now! Long-form reading isn’t that easy on a dark theme.