Pardon the mess again
I know I just changed themes not that long ago, but I saw this one on the Wordpress blog and really liked it. It’s simply called Blue Blog by LoonDesign. I like the more artistic look as opposed to plain and simple ones I’ve used in the past. Colors are nice and mellow, and now that I’m a little better with my writing and picture editing, I’m ready to move on to a fixed width blog. With all the spacing, my words should seem a little less invasive of your monitor. I kind of wished something separated the post content from the background, as when you scroll past the sidebars, the posts are surround by tons of whitespace. Ah, well. I’ll deal for now. I like giant subscribe button in the header and the customizable picture. I don’t have any decent pictures, so you guys are stuck to staring at Ninja Squirrel. Some things obviously some tweaking; in the meantime, please ignore the broken widgets on the sidebar :P
Since I’m getting more random hits to my blog, it was suggested that I start monetizing off it. Yes, that means ads and such. As you can see, I’ve already got Google ads in the side already. I was hesitant before because I don’t want to annoy my regular readers (all 4 of them), but a lot of articles about making money off you blog suggest ways of hiding ads from your regular readers. Ad clicks are from search engine hits most of the time, as opposed to super-smart regulars, so this is best. I have two suggestions for my regulars if the ads start to irritate you.
1) Register on my website and stay logged in all the time. You can register at the login page. It’s kinda ghetto at the moment, but functional.
2) Use an RSS reader and subscribe to my blog. As I’ve mentioned before, I use Bloglines and Google Reader. (I use both to see how my blog looks in different services.) They’re free services, easy to use, and great for efficiently slacking off at work. You can keep up-to-date not just on my blog, but anything with an RSS feed (which is pretty much everything on the internet). Things like polls won’t work in a reader, and you can’t see my fun sidebar stuff, but readers link to the actual blog, so it’s just a click away.
As always, feel free to let me know your opinion on any changes.
