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Finding new themes for my blogs

March 22, 2008 by Tricia

The other night I spent the whole evening trying to find new WordPress blog themes for a few of my sites.

One of my sites has a really nice theme that I like, but when visitors using IE come by and try to leave a comment they have to scroll over a huge empty space to reach the comment area. I’m not sure why that theme does that. It looks great in all the other major browsers, but has that one problem in Internet explorer.

I’m supposed to be having a new theme made for this blog. It should be ready by mid April according to the designer. However, I’m planning on updating this blog to the latest version of WP and I’m not sure this clunky old theme will hold up. It’s not widgetized and the sidebars are composed of tables! See I said it was old and clunky. That’s probably one of the reasons this site loads so slowly at times too. So this site might have a temporary theme until the custom theme is ready.

Have you spent any time looking for new themes or templates for your blog?

I came across some amazing layouts and I also came across some terribly bad ones too! Some templates were set up for ads and I don’t know what the designer was thinking as there are so many spots for ads that you might as well plug that sucker in and light it up like the digital signage in any big cities downtown area!

I did find some beautiful themes though. Some are of the new magazine style and the rest are three column themes. I’ve always been partial to themes with two sidebars even though I know ones with single sidebars usually look much more organized and cleaner.

Perhaps over the next few days I’ll spend some time writing up a post or two about the great WordPress themes that I discovered on my blogging and tech blogs. I haven’t been writing in either of those blogs much this year and I think a few articles about blog design and WP themes might be just the thing to kick start those blogs again. I’ll let you know when those posts are up and if you’re interested in finding some great WP themes you can pop over for a visit.

I’m a post-a-holic – Stop me!

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

Oh my gosh. I think after this I’m going to turn off my laptop and not turn it back on again until sometime tomorrow.

I’ve done something like 22 or 24 posts today on many of my blogs and my fingers are about ready to fall off. My wrists too!

I’ve been in the kitchen for the last 45 minutes to an hour getting our late dinner ready. I made homemade spaghetti sauce and of course spaghetti. The sauce needs just a little longer to blend and then we’ll sit down for a very late meal.

It’s a good thing Chris has tomorrow off since he’s going to be up later than normal thanks to me being behind on dinner.

I’m just starving too!

So much for updating the WP version on all the Feverishthoughts blogs today huh? Tomorrow …

I have a fantastic post coming up for you. I’ll be auto-publishing it at 6 a.m. Try to remember to come back as it will be worth it. It’s something totally unbelievable!

Ok. I’m slowly backing away from the computer now …

Now that’s a broken laptop!

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

What would you do if this happened to your laptop computer? Head over to a computer rental until you could get it fixed?

Maybe … but I don’t think this is anywhere near fixable. Maybe the hard drives data could be recovered, depending of course what exactly caused this laptop to break in half.

I think this person probably needs a new laptop, don’t you?

I think I’d be really stressed if anything happened to my laptop. It’s pretty much attached to me when I’m at home.

I was cringing the other day when I was watching Men in Trees and Marin’s laptop fell into her pond!

Social Networking is addictive and time consuming!

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

Yesterday I had big plans. I wrote up posts for several of my sites and I was hoping that in the afternoon we’d go to the beach for the first time with our puppy since the weather was above freezing.

Well that didn’t happen.

Chris got busy removing the last of the snow that we had in our driveway. Our driveway is long and narrow and we can only park in the very front part of it because it’s so narrow. So no – during that big snow storm I didn’t shovel the whole driveway. So .. since it was above zero and the snow was beginning to melt Chris moved it around and got the driveway cleared.

Then he was tired.

The other thing I was going to do was to manually update all of my sites on Feverishthoughts.com to the latest and greatest version of WP.

I didn’t do that either.

Instead I got an invitation to join a new community group on Bumpzee.com and along with joining the new group I ended up adding a lot of new contacts to my account. I started by looking at members who’d visited my sites or profile recently, adding them if I liked their sites and then I looked at their lists of friends to see if I knew any of the bloggers that they’d added as contacts. I did something similar on Blogcatalog a few weeks ago too.

I literally spent hours on Bumpzee last night! It’s amazing to realize how many bloggers I know or who I was at least familiar with in some way. It was kind of addictive once I got started. If this keeps up they’re going to have to make something like a drug rehabilitation center for Bloggers, except of course it would be perhaps a Social Media Rehab.

Hopefully today I’ll begin upgrading my blogs, well that is if I can stay away from Bumpzee after adding all those bloggers as contacts!

Promoting your site in the real world

March 7, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve been trying to think of a way to promote my sites when I’m not online.

Last November when I went to the Vegas blogging conventions a lot of people had made up business cards and some had even made up created little gifts to hand out with their logo and site address on them.

I’d thought of making up some cards before I went but honestly I was feeling so sick as I began to prepare for my trip that I just didn’t get around to it.

I’ve been thinking of making up some logo pens or something that I could hand out. Business cards too of course, but I think pens are good too because everyone needs a pen and if the pen them happen to be using has your logo and site address on it they might remember to visit your site right?

Have you come up with any cool ideas to promote your site offline?

Finding new themes for my blogs

I’m a post-a-holic – Stop me!

Now that’s a broken laptop!

Promoting your site in the real world

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