I’m right now in the process of changing how this site acts I guess. What I want to do is make it a little more professional looking. I feel it is too plain right now and I want to change that. One thing I want to start doing is incorporating more multimedia in posts to kind of break it up. I want to widen the page a bit so it isn’t as narrow, change adds so there are some in the main body, and ads that aren’t the same on every page (so some pages would be in the body, some would be in the side, and some wouldn’t have any). I want to better incorporate some of these other tools I am using like Twitter, which I like but i think is kind of ugly as it is. I feel that I should be better incorporating other blog indexes and also better suiting my site for search engines to pick up what’s important better. I want to change the header to be more graphic, have fewer categories listed. Show less of a post on the front page (currently, I put up the entire post on the front page, I would like to make it so that only the first paragraph or two shows so that people can skim through what I’ve been posting better).
I’m also thinking of doing a couple other things that I’d appreciate any feedback on as I’m not sure if they are good ideas. Kaboodle I really like, but what I dislike is that there isn’t a good way to incorporate it into my site, so I was thinking about creating a page that would have links to items I own and/or want. I don’t know why, but if we are looking at the interest of what *I* am all about (after all it is my blog), I think what I think is cool is part of that. I also just think it is kind of a cool idea.
The other idea is to have related links at the end of most posts. This would range from just more info from various sites that I found interesting, to links to ways to purchase a product. (For instance if I do a review on a game or movie, I would offer a way for you to buy it).
I’m not entirely sure if these ideas are great, but thought I’d put them out there. At any rate, don’t be surprised to see some changes in the future. Please by all means give me thoughts, or further ideas to better this site and make it more attractive and useful to everyone.