Bill Yelenak

Over the past few days, I’ve had a chance to add more regional news stories to the “Media Placements” section and add a section with a couple designs that I’ve done for the Providers’ Council. I’d like to add three or four more designs over the next week, but it’s a fairly simple section to get set up.

With that, most of the site will be created and finished. I’ll add to it as I do new things at the Council and in my personal life, but for now, I’m happy with the way everything has turned out. It presents all the information in a simple, clear way, and that’s exactly what I wanted to do. My old sites had links to PDFs and Word files, but this puts everything in an HTML format, which has certain advantages. You don’t need to worry about a web plug-in or other software to view the files, and you can view them right in the web browser.

With most of this updated, it will give me a chance to do more of what I was interested in when I created the website. While I enjoy Twitter — and as you can see from the box on the right-hand side, I tweet a lot — I do like occasionally writing more than 140 characters. And this blog will give me that opportunity. So while I will continue to tweet on a consistent basis, I’m looking forward to posting more on this website in the near future.

Spent the past couple nights creating and updating a page for media placements. It takes a LOT longer than it looks. Besides needing to convert all the articles from .doc, .pdf or webpages into pages themed for WordPress, there’s a ton of funky formatting things that need to be massaged.

Right now, I’ve put 10 stories up there. Everything from national outlets like the Associated Press and The New York Times to Boston-based media organizations like The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and State House News. I’ll add other regional papers in the next week or so, along with some TV/radio appearances.

For now, though, the site is in pretty good shape. I had a robots file blocking Google and other search engines, but at this point, I’m fine if they crawl it. I like the way the site is set up and the way it displays my work, so I’m ready for it to be crawled. Hope it starts to work again since I had it turned off…

It’s taken quite a while, but I’ve finally finished editing the journalist and government relations sections of  the website. I like the way they’re set up. Used anchor tags because there are SO MANY newspapers I’ve written for (truth be told, I didn’t even put my work at Congressional Quarterly in that section) and creating those tags had to be done in HTML since WordPress doesn’t have that nifty function.

In the government relations section, I left the anchor tags out. Only have the Council and the Mihos campaign there, so didn’t feel they were necessary for navigation.

Site is almost completely the way I want it, but I need to work on adding some of the larger media placements I’ve received for the Providers’ Council. After that, I think this whole site will be in relatively good shape. Love the layout and design, although I may revisit changing the top image on the site when I get everything else the way I want it…