A Few Blog Changes

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on October 13th, 2009
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If you come to this blog often you know that I don’t change things up that much. Well finally I made a few changes, some of the stuff I’ve been meaning to do for a while actually, and I just never got around to it. It is always good to change up your blog from time to time, that way people notice if you actually make a change. The changes that I made are very small actually, mostly tweaks and other things like that.

First off let’s start with the contact page. For some reason the contact form was not sending out e-mail. So if you sent me a message from the contact form in the past month or so I most likely did not get it. I’m really not sure what the reason for it not working was, but I updated the plugin and the contact form works great again!

Moving over to the side bar I finally added a Subscribe to my RSS Feed link under feed. I just had the FeedBurner feed counter and my Twitter Counter there. Now you can use the link to subscribe to the RSS feed as well as subscribe via e-mail all from the sidebar. I hope this will increase RSS subscriptions, I’m not sure if many people really notice the RSS subscription box at the top of the blog. I was using SayTweet.com for a while to display my current Twitter status, but I decided to just use the regular Twitter widget. The one I’m using is actually the Myspace widget, I like it better than the website widget. Finally I added the PGH Bloggers chicklet under all of that to show some love to the PGH Bloggers website.

Probably the most noticeable change has to be the Header Image. I changed the style and font on it a little bit, but if you check back in an hour the header image will be different. This is because I am using the WP Header Image Rotator plugin that will automatically rotate my header image every hour. So I actually have 5 different header images right now. They all have different sayings on them. The current plugin that I’m using only allows for 5 images, I might just buy the pro version of it for $2 so I can use more than 5 images. If you are for some reason seeing 2 different images in the header press crtl+f5 to refresh the page. Here is a peek at one of the images I’m using as a header.

Check back to see the other images as they are in rotation. Let me know what you think of the updates in the comments!

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8 Responses to “A Few Blog Changes”

EarningStep said on October 14th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

yeah.. i see lot of different between now and older themes… you have a better and clean looking themes now
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Branding Sydney said on October 20th, 2009 at 3:23 am

That is the new terminologies as such.

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Kitchen Cabinets said on October 27th, 2009 at 1:36 am

I never noticed the changes on the side bar except the header banner. It looks cool and attractive.

what widget did you use for your flickr photos———->?

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Coast guard gifts said on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am

I have a blog on blogger but have a problem to make changes on my blog?
here is the problem. few days ago I have to reinstal my windox XP . before this reinstallation, I was able to sign in my own blogg without any problem. Now after the reinstallation I can sign in my blog wich is hosted by blogger.com but I can not make any change or post new messages or use the close button.
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Bathroom Wall Floor Tiles said on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Feed is best option ti get latest update but tweeter is too good and i like it!
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Coast guard gifts said on December 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 am

If it’s possible I want the most recent post to be the full post, then when a new post is made, it gets shortened to the paragraph. And the most recent post becomes the full post.

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Coast guard gifts said on December 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 am

However, there is something you can do: first, add the “read more” separator line in your older posts except your last one. This way, you will have one full post (your most recent) and all the others restricted to paragraphs by the “read more” line.
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flights to pakistan said on February 8th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

ive been reading your blog for some while now and im pleased to tell you that you have some great posts regarding on some of your topics, however it would be nice if you introduced a few more topics such as technology etc, always a very popular topic to read.

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