There, I've gone and done it. I just released the latest version of my blog. I thought I was going to use the new Blogger templates for this, but then I discovered that these only work on blogspot.com hosted blogs, because of some dynamic code behind them; since I host my blog on my own web site on a friend's server (thanks Alec!), this technology isn't available to me.

No worries. My main goal was to enable labels or tags on my blog posts. I found code to display all the label links on the sidebar, and also fixed some settings so that the label pages would display properly from those links and the ones in posts. (Thanks, phydeaux3!) Then I added labels to all my posts from this year, so that the label pages would be more complete. Maybe I'll get them into the meta keywords eventually too.

While I was at it, I tweaked a few things that had been nagging me about the layout, linked headlines to posts, etc. I tried to add backlink code, but I think the settings screwed me up again; I'll take it out if it refuses to work for new posts too.

Finally, I figure that numbering this 2.1 will dispel any notion that I'm riding on Web 2.0 coattails. I hope you like the changes; either way, leave me a comment or blog about them (then I can see if backlinks will work going forward). Peace.