The Table

Salt & pepper

For most of you, the explanations below might be obvious and unnecessary. However, we have readers who are not that intimate with technology, so we decided to shed some light on how it works.

The menu

There are words and phrases that are meaningful to us. We use some of them as our menu titles for the pages of this site and include a clarification that you can see if you hover over the title. Or just tap on the menu title and the text will follow.

The dish

Our site has static pages like this one, where content will be updated infrequently, and dynamic pages that will be refreshed with new posts. If this sounds too complicated you can just follow the blog  where by definition posts appear in reverse chronological order.

Reading other blogs however, we often struggle finding a coherent story or information about a trip that spans a few months/years and is covered in many posts. Thus, for ease of retrieval we provide a few gates to our old posts and stories. Posts are grouped in submenus. For example, if you want to know about our experience in New Zealand, you will find all related posts in the travelogue: Along Rusty Rails -> Journeys & Sojourns -> Australasia -> New Zealand. Since our New Zealand experience is part of 3 months travel around the world, these posts will also appear in the Storyline: Home to home westwards (the clickable subtitle in the posts belonging to this story).

Again, this is just a way to display the posts in meaningful groups: all these posts also appear in the blog in the order we’ve written them.

Subscription

We don’t intend to make blogging a full-time job, so if you want to know when we publish a post, please subscribe to the site (the box provided to include your e-mail address on every page that has a sidebar). The system will send you an e-mail from Around Our e-Table asking you to confirm your subscription. Once you confirm, the system will automatically notify you of new posts.

Comments

This feature is to provide a conversation tool for our e-table… or to have your feedback so to say. With your first comment, you have to provide e-mail and name. We chose to moderate the comments at least for now, because comment fields are often used by spammers to hijack conversations. We therefore reserve the right to edit or delete posts that we consider offensive or unrelated to this site’s purpose.

You can also subscribe to our blog with your first comment by checking the box “Follow blog”.

The software and its policies

We’ve used WordPress for our blog content and Bluehost to host the site. It also came with an add-in called Jetpack that puts the two together. Thus, the site is governed by privacy policies provided by these companies. Since it is a non-commercial site we don’t believe we’ll need our own policies.  But time will tell.