{"id":67377,"date":"2023-02-06T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T08:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=67377"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T08:49:32","slug":"time-to-update-the-blog-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/06\/time-to-update-the-blog-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to update the blog design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two ideas came in last week as a result of the discussion on the glossary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/02\/a-glossary-of-economics-tax-and-accounting\/comment-page-1\/#comment-918932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was from regular commentator<\/a> Ian Tresman. His suggestion is that the glossary should be a wiki and not a PDF download. I do actually <a href=\"http:\/\/taxresearch.org.uk\/Wiki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already have a wiki<\/a> - although it has had little use because no one seemed to follow links to it when I used it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, what do people think?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Or, would it simply be better if the glossary was a separate page on the blog with each definition linked to that rather than being in the rather less familiar wiki format?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And talking of the blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/02\/new-tech-for-the-blog\/comment-page-1\/#comment-919050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the other comment<\/a> came from another commentator also, coincidentally, called Ian. He pointed out three things:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>The blog is hard to search.<\/li>\n<li>It looks a bit archaic (my interpretation of his words: I can be rude about it and he was not)<\/li>\n<li>Both could be improved to advantage.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>My guess is the search function could be improved but there are real issues that mean it may never work that well:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>There are over 20,000 posts on here.<\/li>\n<li>There are also more than 200,000 comments.<\/li>\n<li>Finding anything is not necessarily that easy without a very precise search.<\/li>\n<li>With odd exceptions, most posts I write are written as reactions to events and are not big theory or positioning pieces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>So, it\u2019s not easy to find a precise description of modern monetary theory, for example, on this blog precisely because that is not what it was ever meant to provide.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The glossary is meant to address this, at least in part, and I think it will. There will be an entry for MMT, for example, and these things could develop over time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But this only tackles one issue. So:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"Apple-dash-list\">\n<li>Does the blog design need updating to look like those designed in 2023?<\/li>\n<li>Does the search function need to improve?<\/li>\n<li>Would a section on key issues - longer than glossary entries - be valuable?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I have to say I dislike hate highly visual modern websites where menus are hard to find and content is hidden from view behind flash graphics (not that I am being opinionated here) but my adviser on this issue (otherwise known as my elder son) says I should ask what other people think because I may not be right (and he thinks that\u2019s the best way to tell me).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Any thoughts?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ideas came in last week as a result of the discussion on the glossary. One was from regular commentator Ian Tresman. His suggestion is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/02\/06\/time-to-update-the-blog-design\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}