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An American postgraduate studying abroad in Galway, Ireland

Blog improvements made

March 13th, 2007 | Category: blog, design, linkbacks, site

I wanted to let you all know that I have made some improvements here that I’m excited about. Thanks to all who have given me suggestions for my Everyone’s a critic project. The suggestions were very valuable. For those who haven’t, I challenge you to check it out for your own blog. I will help in any way I can.
For you subscribers out there, now’s the time to click on over to the site and check out the following improvements:

  • Added a Google Custom Search tool at the upper right. I now have the power of Google on my blog. Woo hoo!
  • Added a photo to the About me page. In case you’re wondering, I’m standing outside the Frank Lloyd Wright Studio in Scottsdale, AZ. This was taken the day before my first marathon
  • Added a TOP POSTS section to give new readers a chance to see the democratic consensus of my most popular content. This is one of my favorite additions and if you mouse-over each link, you will see the number of visits to each page.
  • Expanded the sponsors list and deleted the graphical ads on the sidebar. I think this was the biggest improvement in terms of cleaning things up. I may add graphical ads later on down the road, but for now this is how it will stay. Be sure to have a look at the SPONSORS list to the right as well as this one for great blogging tips. I personally use all of these services and will only put a link up here in which I believe to be worthy.

There you have it. It’s not perfect by any means but I’m very happy with the results. There are a few things I want to clean up, most notably the CATEGORY CLOUD. I just have too many categories to list, so I may end up moving it to a separate page and just featuring the top 20 or so.

I owe a million thanks to all who contributed their feedback. If you have your own blog, check out Everyone’s a critic and I’ll be happy to help out.

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    Lookin' really good James. Here's some replies to the comments you left me(thanks a bunch!):
    ·Post a comment with your Unique Visitors per Day and monthly blog revenue(must be monetized), and I'll add your blog to the revenue study.

    ·Men's Health magazine did an article on Dean (is that his name? the crazy mother f*cker who's trying to run 250 miles straight). the article was more of an advertisement, but i've not read the book you mentioned.

    ·I'll send you the pre book if you want to read it..let me know :grin:
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    Looks great James! Thank you for stopping by my blog and giving me some tips :D I'm still working on the mybloglog, a simple center command isn't working. I really like the top posts plug in too
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    @Gregg

    Thanks, I'm glad you like it :)

    Do you know CSS? I had a year of it in college and it's very very useful and standardized as well, although there are some really bad pages out there still...:(
    Try the following example

    (div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">whatever block of MyBlogLog code is here(/div)
    ...of course instead of "(" and ")" use "< " and ">" The comment would not format properly otherwise because the browser reads it as code....

    This should center it in whatever container the code currently resides, such as your sidebar.

    for text you would use: text-align: center;
 

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