ThinkPenguins Launched!

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on October 13th, 2008
5 Comments... What do you have to say?

As I said in an earlier post I wanted to start a Penguins blog. I love hockey and I’ve been watching the Penguins play for as long as I can remember. So over the past weekend I got to work on it since the season has started. I stuck with the “Think” theme that I have with many of my other sites, so ThinkPenguins was born. Luckily I was able to find a good Wordpress theme that matched the colors of the Penguins well. I really did not have to do much to the layout except change the logo. Please let me know what you think of the site.

The site is going to cover all pens news and I will be doing game recaps for every game. Also if there is any interesting NHL news I will be posting it also. I created a twitter account, so make sure you follow!

Since this is a brand new blog I did a fresh install of Wordpress. Here are some of the plugins that I’m using: Akismet, All in One SEO pack, Contact form 7, Feedburner FeedSmith, and Similar Posts. I think for any blog you should have these plugins installed.

This is my first sports blog so we will see how it goes, wish me luck!

Posted in: Pittsburgh, The Net, The Think Network
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5 Responses to “ThinkPenguins Launched!”

Colin Dean said on October 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am

Have you considered trying out an external comments service such as IntenseDebate? I’ve been kicking around switching to it myself after seeing it on http://www.hijinksensue.com.

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Mike Huang said on October 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Simple, but yet very appealing

-Mike

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Khalid said on October 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Bob, good luck! Nice, simple layout. Please keep us updated on the site and how you are marketing it etc so we can see how you make a success out of something new.

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MLDina said on October 15th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Nice site! I love hockey too, though I won’t tell you which team I’m a fan of . I would take advantage of the penguin theme and make the logo/ header a bit bigger, but other than that, I love the content. Your writing has more of a story line to it than the typical sports announcer casts.

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Josh Zehtabchi said on October 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Very clean – even though I’m a basketball fan, I’ll keep checking in for some fight pictures

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