The Uncarved Block

So when I had a day off work this week I decided to fix a few things on this site that have been bugging me for a while:

• most of the content is dynamic, yet the sitemap (used by search engines to figure out how to slurp your site) was not
• I never bothered to put proper meta description tags on pages
• now that there were quite a few articles things were getting lost in painful navigation
• The site didn't do gzip encoding

So I've had a go at fixing them. I now generate my sitemaps automatically using the code I wrote to generate the atom and rss feeds, transparently gzip stuff if your client can accept that, and there is a new articles link on the side to make all the content easier to get to. Oh, and the pages have proper description tags which should make them more useful on search engines.

Hope this all helps.