By the time you read this, each of the posts in this blog (and the recipe blog) will come with an "about me" blurb at the bottom of the page, in no particular order, Scott Hanselman has one:

I've been sharing some of the content I've written via LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook - mainly reserving the recipes I've been putting together for Facebook and the more technical / professional stuff for LinkedIn and Twitter. Facebook and LinkedIn seem to be fairly aggressive about parsing the content of the linked page and extracting what they think is appropriate meta-data, e.g. any associated image, article title, etc, whereas Twitter seems to rely exclusively on in-page meta data and without it will do nothing other than leave the link in the tweet. This means that, as it's been fairly low down my list of things to do, I've been "faking out" my tweets to make them look kinda, sorta like they've got the metadata associated with them that twitter groks. That said, it's definitely a fake out, one of these things definitely does not look like the other!

Layout Part in Orchard CMS is a very powerful tool, but it is complicated for the end user (content editor), as you can see in this picture:

It was pointed out to me earlier today that whilst the carousel on my home page scales and looks right on everything from desktops to mobile phones, the "top-hat" images I've been including in posts don't play quite as nicely on mobile devices.

I've been very (very) aware that the homepage of my site is very text heavy, consisting of a list of the most recent blog posts from techy me and cooking me. Over the past couple of weeks I've poked at some of the available modules for Orchard that purport to allow me to stick a great big image carousel at the top of the page, unfortunately I've not been able to get any of them to work. I suspect that this is due to a combination of some of the breaking changes in Orchard 1.10.x and the fact that most of the modules are very old. I finally decided to bite the bullet today and roll my own solution.

I noticed earlier today that the number of "structured data" items Googles Webmaster Tools was reporting it had found on my website had dropped. Given that I'm continually adding new recipes (albeit it takes a while for Google to process them, but I'm in no rush!), this surprised me a little. There's a graph that shows how the number of structured data items has changed over time in the tools:

A very quick, and short, post to point to a feature of Orchard called "Shape Tracing" that allows you to work out how a page is composed, and what views you'd need to create (and indeed it will create them for you!) to override presentation.

After putting together my post yesterday about adding a Summary field to blog posts, Sébastien Ros dropped a comment pointing out a tidier way to access the Summary property, giving this: