I know I said I wasn’t going to change much on the site, but I kind of got carried away with the widgets today. My goal was to make it look similar to the old, widget-less sidebar. I’m not sold on the layout yet. I like some things and others not so much. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated.
A couple of new things you may have noticed are the two buttons at the end of each post. If you mouse over the “share/save” button, a list of the most popular social bookmarking sites will pop up and you can tag my post to read later. The “vote for post” button is a Mom Blog Network thing and if I get enough votes I’ll be featured on their home page. And yes, I do realize I’m starting to pimp myself out here.
The other chicklet I’d like to call to your attention is the “subscribe” button at the top of my sidebar. If you read a lot of blogs (as I do), subscribing to feeds is a great way to be notified when the blog owner submits a new post. I can’t tell you how great this is because I just don’t have the time to keep checking my favorite sites for an update. There are a lot of good feed readers out there, Bloglines being my reader of choice, but the other most common readers are Google Reader and My Yahoo.
Imagine, if you will, a world in which you are no longer obligated to call your friends and family for the latest news because they automatically call you. That’s how great feed readers are.
I'm Heather. I live in Michigan with my husband and daughter and maintain this little enterprise while working full time and attending grad school part time. Don't ask me how I do it because I really couldn't tell you.
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Go ahead — pimp away. And I really need to subscribe to feeds. I’m sure you all think I’m a crazy stalker for clicking on your blogs a million times a day to see if you’ve updated yet. Or it could be that I’m actually stalking you. You decide!
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