Thursday Thirteen #17 – Site Changes
Over the weekend (and still ongoing) my site has been through changes! So for my seventeenth edition of Thursday Thirteen, here are both subtle and obvious changes to verabear.net:
- 1- The main theme/template. From bright to dark.
- 2- Changed the default logo that came with the theme. I might be changing that one again this weekend though.
- 3- Removed the About the Author and Ads sections of the Sidebar
- 4- Added ads under the Header and under the Footer, but only for the Main Index page.
- 5- Changed the way Archived posts are displayed. The default display only listed the contents but I wanted the actuall posts shown too when you clicked on a Category, for example.
- 6- Edited the appearance of the Threaded Comments Plugin to match the template.
- 7- Removed the “author” property (e.g. posted by verabear) for each post. I don’t feel that I need it because I’m the only one who posts here anyway.
- 8- Added a gallery plugin – NextGen – which I may not be able to use after all because I’d have to pay per additional 8M of PHP memory.
- 9- Changed the color scheme for my Bidvertiser and Google Ads.
- 10- The Subscribe area. I never had one although the previous template also had an RSS link by default.
Still looking forward to changing/adding the rest… - 11- A photo gallery that’s hopefully integrated with WP
- 12- Top Commentors plugin
- 13- I might add an Instant Messaging Control box so we can chat real time when I’m online
I had one back when I was still blogging at my Blogger address but the only one that ever chatted with me was Tracy and we chat on Messenger all the time anyways. Haha. Maybe I’ll get to know more blog readers next time I set it up, or at least I am hoping too. 
Feedback has been generally positive about the new look. More importantly, I am quite happy with the changes. 
**Checkout my previous TT’s here and here.
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Vera Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Oh my, 4 years worth! How did you feel about that? Something went wrong with my first blog just a few months since I started it and when I couldn’t access it I felt bad. But I didn’t know how much it impacted me until I was able to access it again maybe two or three years later – it was like seeing a long lost friend.
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