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Time to take stalk and work on our blogs

February 27, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been going over all of the sites that my husband and I work on and I think I’m going to re-organize and revamp some of the sites.

I think we’re going to work on a new theme for Odd Planet since the current theme is a little bit messed up. The sidebar scrolls into the bottom bars in the footer, and the comment area is messed up for first time commenter’s. I think that’s the site that needs the most immediate attention because I’m sure that with the comment area being a little screwy that some people who’d like to leave a comment have probably ended up leaving without giving the feedback that they’d intended to leave.

Celebrity Scoop and Guitar Licks are both using the same theme. I like the theme, but I haven’t done a thing to customize it. All of my long time readers know I re-work themes or make my own for our sites. I’m embarrassed that I haven’t had the time to work on the themes for those sites and give them the personality that they desperately need.

Speaking of needing more time. I have two more blogs that I’ve started! I created The Web Files on this feverishthoughts.com domain. It was meant to be a technology blog – talking about different things that website owners and bloggers could use on their sites, or news from the world of the Internet. I had also started creating a number of “How – To” files. You know – tips like how to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or how to make a drop down menu. I have about 50 posts in draft on that site.

What I think I’m going to do instead … well what I’ve already done is put the posts from the original Web Files site onto a new domain called thewebfiles.com . This new site, on a new domain will continue where I left off, and the old “Web files” will become a true web design site.

I’m still writing Watching House, but since there’s only been three new episodes of House so far this year I’m starting to have a hard time finding something to write about each day. If House doesn’t start airing new episodes regularly beginning in March I may quit writing that blog.

Why am I telling you this? Well, if you start to see changes occurring on some of the blogs I’ve listed above please feel free to give Chris and I some feedback. We’d love to know if you like the sites and their design as well.

I don’t talk about our other sites very often, but if you like them please feel free to bookmark them or add them to your blogroll. The newer sites could use a little linky love if anyone is interested in writing up an article or post about them please let me know.





Filed Under: The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Web Design, Website Promotion Tagged With: blog themes, blog voice, new theme for blog, organize blog, re design, re organize blogs, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Web Design, Website Promotion

Nelsok – video sharing community allows you to earn money

February 27, 2007 by Tricia

I just visited a new Video Sharing Community. This looks like a great place to sit back and look at new videos or upload your own. Plus, there’s an interesting twist to this new video sharing site. That’s right. You can actually make some money by placing Google Adsense ads on your video pages.

Here’s a few of the special features that you’ll find at Nelsok. There is no registration required. You’ll have 200 mb of storage space for your video uploads free of charge. There are no bandwidth limits so if you want to embed your video on your website, or if others choose to use it on their sites it will always be available for viewing.

If you do choose to sign up for a free account you’ll be able to manage your video collections, mark videos private, place ads on your video pages so that you can make some money when people browse your videos, and you can interact with friends, family or other members of Nelsok’s video sharing community.

The community and video selection is already quite large. Check it out for yourself.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Make Money, Recreation, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: Entertainment, Make Money, make money uploading videos, place adsense ads on video sharing site, Recreation, upload videos, Video, video sharing, Web and Technology

Put your avatar in comments using Gravatar

February 26, 2007 by Tricia

Gravatar is back!

I’ve been using the Gravatar plugin on all of our WordPress blogs for the better part of the last year. Those of you who have accounts on Gravatar, and who have been leaving comments on my site have a nice avatar beside your comments.

Unfortunately Gravatar shut down for upgrades for about two months and no new people could sign up with Gravatar to list their avatar icons. That’s over and done with now though. Gravatar.com is open again and you can sign up with them and list your own avatar.

A lot of people use gravatars on their blogs. It adds a little bit of personality to the comment area. I love seeing my visitors choice of icons beside their comments, as it can sometimes give me a little bit of insight into their personality.

If you don’t already have a Gravatar icon why don’t you visit Gravatar.com and sign up. All you have to do is sign up with your current email address – the one that you use when you comment on others sites – and then upload an avatar into your Gravatar account.

Once you have a Gravatar account your avatar will show up in the comment area of anyone that uses the Gravatar plugin on their site.

I’d love to see more avatars in my comment area, so go sign up with Gravatar and let your personality and sense of humor show in the comments you leave.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: Cool stuff, Web and Technology, Website Promotion

Pretty Petunias

February 25, 2007 by Tricia

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Petunia

As the month drags on I’m longing more and more for Spring and Summer to hurry up and get here.


My petunia’s last year were just lovely. I often grow red and purple ones because the birds like them best. Particularly Hummingbirds (red petunias) which I’m trying to entice into my yard each summer. I do however purchase or grow a large number of white flowers as well because they accent the colored flowers and in the dark of the garden you can still see white flowers.

As many of you who have read this site for a while, or my gardening blog know, I do seem to enjoy gardening or being in my garden at night. Evening dinners or get together’s on the patio, watering the flower beds and lawn at night so my noisy stalker elderly neighbor doesn’t see me and slow me down … heck I’ve even been known to pull out a spot light and do some planting at 11 pm. So yes, my garden is to be enjoyed and worked in as much during the day as at night and the white flowers sure light up the place in the evening.

What can I say. I’m either a crazy or an extreme gardener. Take your pick.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: camera, digital camera, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden

Found a friend

February 24, 2007 by Tricia

PSHunt
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code.
Photo Theme.
Join the blogroll.
Visit participants.

This weeks Theme is Soft

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I love this photo!

To me it looks like this baby monkey needed a friend and was very happy to have found a nice soft stuffed duck to literally hang on to.

I know that I often try to put a little twist on the theme each week, but when I saw this photo I just had to post it. Isn’t it adorable?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Photo Hunters, Recreation, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: Entertainment, Photo Hunters, Recreation, Wildlife and Nature

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