Over the last several months, I’ve slowly been categorizing each post with location data so that eventually we would be able to have an index with every office location. Well, that day is here and I would like to introduce you to our new Location Index.

The location system uses Wordpress’ built-in category hierarchy, which would make the task seem easy, but in fact it was extremely tedious and boring. You see, previously, we had been tagging every post with the location data, but being the dunce of web design that I am, I had no good idea of how to display that information. So after introducing the Company Index, I just decided to use categories to simplify the whole thing. The only issue is that Wordpress does not allow a tag and category to use the same slug, so I had to slowly, one-by-one, go through and create the categories, attach them to posts, delete tags, then rename the category slug to the short form you now see.

Anyways, I realize that the data on both the Company index and Location index is not the most beautiful looking, but it’s there, and it’s useful. My goal is to keep adding features to Office Snapshots that adds value to the readers. A refreshed site design is probably overdue, but at this point, I’d rather have a useful site with a ton of offices than a pretty website that has some content but is ultimately not very useful.

The next thing I’ll be working on is some way to browse by office ratings. Any other ideas that would make the site more useful to you?

Enjoy!