After some time now of putting blogging aside, I've decided that I miss it and want to get going again. Although I was talking about blogging last year, I think I'm going to change pace and talk mostly about Linux and programming.&nbps;
For those of you who follow the blog, I thought I just needed to let you know what is happing in my life. Over the last few weeks I've been in the process of aquiring a job. I've put my company, Frantic Naturalist on hold for the time being, shut down the See-Namibia.com website, though I'm holding onto the domain name.
I'm going to start working for &beyond, basically the only company I've every really worked for. I worked in the Windhoek office in 2003 as a 'operations manager', and I've had a lot of contact with the Windhoek office all along.
Why do you blog?
I don't mean that in a deeply philosophical way, but there is some use to looking at what the goals are for your blogging. Is it just an outlet, a bit of creativity or is it a part of a full blown business?
Is your blog your only 'website' or do you have a substantial online presence?
You may be happy with just a simple blog. If you are on a platform like Blogger, you have little choice. But if you have a self-hosted website on your own domain, you have many choices for adding extra stuff onto your site.
I'm going to run through some ideas for what you might want to add to your site, and in some cases a little of how you might do that. I'll give examples where I know of good ones.
I do some of these thing myself, but others I've only observed on other blogs and websites.
This is a rather lengthy post, but it may give you a few really useful ideas.
This weekend has been great, with Windhoek (where I live) getting a little rain. Namibians get a little crazy about rain, but my wife and I lived at Sossusvlei for many years, in the Namib Desert, so rain is especially special for us. And the first rains are the best.
But rain can also be a problem for our internet (don't ask me why), and so I've had some bad connectivity throughout the weekend.
But, I did get to do what I set out to do - to re-build the blog app from scratch.
Does your blog's sidebar support your blog? Here are a few questions you should be asking yourself:
Just like a public notice board, you may starts to view the sidebar as the place to hang up the stuff you collect.
You join a directory, a new button appears, join Twitter, a new widget, need money, Adsense appears… blogroll, kitten pictures, your boyfriend's face with an X written across it… and blood… an axe?…
I'm guilty… well, not of killing lovers… I'm guilty of shoveling thing into my sidebar. Soon the whole thing is ugly, slow, and so cluttered nobody even looks there anyway.
My name is Vernon
I live in Namibain
I'm a blogger, computer enthusiast, naturalist and father
Sandcurves is my personal website and blog
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This is my personal blog, but I try to write things that you may find interesting or useful. I'm currently working on a six month long project digging into the elements that make a blog meaningful. For more on that, visit MEANINGFUL BLOG PROJECT page.
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