Still some time before I can rebuild this website

I am currently alpha testing the new V5 version of Invision Community, and it will be some time before it will be ready. It has a lot of potential and I very much look forward to it being released, but it has a lot of bugs at the moment, so I don't expect it to be released anytime soon. This means I have more time to play around with things, but it also means that I will probably not have any new site done this year, or very late this year.

This is neither good nor bad, but the way things are.

There are a lot of other things I can still do on this site to prepare it for the new design. One of those things is to go over all the content and adjust it a bit to make sure it fit the new structure and focus. I already wrote about the new focus in my personal blog here:

What I am looking into deeper now is how the new tags system work and how I can best use that. The new tags system will allow for more of a node thinking, which is something I have wanted for a very long time! This new system will allow for easy organization of content, so you have tag sites that will give you the latest and greatest content for a specific tag from all products within Invision Community. This will be a very interesting way to summarize and group content that I very much look forward to.

I am currently considering how I can best utilize this functionality, since all tags are curated and require manual setup. I want to combine this with the databases, but I am not 100% sure how I want to do that yet. I know that everything related to Atlassian as a company will be one tag and then one tag for every Atlassian product. I also want one tag for each of the Ways of Working and Interesting categories. This means that I can provide a pretty nice structure of information and allow people to subscribe to the content they are interested in.

I have not yet decided how to do with other companies and other products, but I figure I will add some of the largest companies and products that I will write about most...

This will require quite a lot of work to create the tags and then go over all content and tag them with the new tagging system. It does allow me to touch up and republish some articles, though, which is always a good thing.

So, I guess the summary here is that I am kind of waiting for the release of V5, so I can start working on this site again and rebrand myself again. For now there is not much point in doing anything since the code is still moving in V5, and I am not sure what CSS classes I will be using once it gets released.

I will keep posting thoughts here until we are getting closer to release.