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Eating, drinking and being merry
Thursday night saw us down at the Triton Inn in Brantingham for the “official” Art & Soul Christmas do. The Triton has just been named as the Hull Daily Mail’s Restaurant of the Year 2008, and deservedly so. The grub was tasty, and plenty of it too. An added bonus was the pair of real ales on hand pump at the bar. On the night, for me at least, the Wold Top Bitter from local microbrewers Wold Top Brewery had the edge over the Copper Dragon Brewery’s Best Bitter.
Danny suggested that someone take a camera along to record the event for posterity, and provide some material for the new blog. However when it came down to it there wasn’t much enthusiasm for taking photos – after a few initial snaps early on, the camera was put away for the evening. With at least two discerning photographers amongst us the lighting conditions were dismissed as inadequate, and attentions were turned to eating, drinking and being merry!
Put the camera down! (L - R) Dunc, Danny (J) and Vic.
(L - R) Dan (W), Louise, Roisha, Jim and Justine (halfway through her famous “alien-morph” party trick).
Despite Art & Soul picking up the tab for the evening, everyone conducted themselves with dignity and we all made it into work on Friday morning.
A step in the right direction
Turns out the MySQL database behind latest version of WordPress has a significantly altered table structure to our older test installation. The whole tags/categories/taxonomy thing looks a whole lot more elegant in WordPress v2.7, which is good news. The bad news is that it broke our custom front end, but after a bit of tinkering this morning the problems seem to be resolved, so we’re back on track.Hello world!
So the Art & Soul blog is finally up and running ready for the launch of our new web site. The test installation of WordPress has been replaced with a squeaky clean copy of the latest version. And all in time for Christmas too!
Subscribe »Why Do We have A Blog?
There are several very good reasons why we have incorporated a blog into our web site. It’s relatively simple to do after all.
- A blog is great tool for quickly adding new content to a web site. We chose WordPress, and its ease of use means we are more likely to keep updating the site on a regular basis, whenever one of us has ten minutes to spare.
- Visitors like fresh content. Keeping the site updated will encourage people to come back again and again. It all helps when building an online presence and winning customer mindshare.
- Search engines like fresh content too. As long as we keep it relevant it all counts towards ratings.
- We’re creative types, and blogging is form of self-expression. When we’ve got something to say it won’t do to bottle it up.
- We’re good at what we do, and blogging about it is way of proving it to the world.
It all makes sense doesn’t it. Perhaps you should have a blog on your web site. Don’t think about it for too long though - give us a call…