Slight redesign work
I have been rebuilding the site from many perspectives, it may not be immediately evident to any of you, but I've made a few dozen changes this morning and last night.
I use the blogging application called "blogger". I don't really want to use it, but I wanted to publish my blog under my domain name, which actually belongs to a company called NetIdentity (now Tucows). They basically bought the domains for thousands of last names, and they charge people like myself a fee to us their service and rent the domain for their own needs.
In any case, NetIdentity also forces you to host with them, but they provide nothing for semi-advanced hosting., i.e. no PHP, no database, no access to the web server configuration.
When I started blogging in 2004, I chose blogger because it allowed me to use their application and then publish static files to my hosting provider, NetIdentity.
But blogger had very little in place to take advantage of the new world of social media. In fact even the new blogger is limited - I had to use a third party provider (feedburner) to supply a rss feed that works for everyone, and to provide easy ways for my readers to bookmark my posts on delicious or to digg something they like.
Also blogger doesn't really provide any way to have a blogroll, or to link to my own favourite posts.
Some of the other issues I had were more related to some choices I had made a long time ago, such as having a ton of little images at the bottom of my pages promoting various top 10 lists. I cleaned that up (most of them are non-existent already).
So I'm working on improving the site, over the years I have written some posts that were better than others and that I want everyone who comes to visit to have a chance to read, so I created a static list of some of the better posts which you can find on the right hand side nav bar.
I'll be making more changes over the next few weeks, as I try to make the most of blogger. If you know any tricks I could use to improve things over here with this whole situation, please let me know.
I use the blogging application called "blogger". I don't really want to use it, but I wanted to publish my blog under my domain name, which actually belongs to a company called NetIdentity (now Tucows). They basically bought the domains for thousands of last names, and they charge people like myself a fee to us their service and rent the domain for their own needs.
In any case, NetIdentity also forces you to host with them, but they provide nothing for semi-advanced hosting., i.e. no PHP, no database, no access to the web server configuration.
When I started blogging in 2004, I chose blogger because it allowed me to use their application and then publish static files to my hosting provider, NetIdentity.
But blogger had very little in place to take advantage of the new world of social media. In fact even the new blogger is limited - I had to use a third party provider (feedburner) to supply a rss feed that works for everyone, and to provide easy ways for my readers to bookmark my posts on delicious or to digg something they like.
Also blogger doesn't really provide any way to have a blogroll, or to link to my own favourite posts.
Some of the other issues I had were more related to some choices I had made a long time ago, such as having a ton of little images at the bottom of my pages promoting various top 10 lists. I cleaned that up (most of them are non-existent already).
So I'm working on improving the site, over the years I have written some posts that were better than others and that I want everyone who comes to visit to have a chance to read, so I created a static list of some of the better posts which you can find on the right hand side nav bar.
I'll be making more changes over the next few weeks, as I try to make the most of blogger. If you know any tricks I could use to improve things over here with this whole situation, please let me know.
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