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8 comments:

Celestial Earth Woman said...: "User-Friendly", that's the term I am looking for. :D
Can't wait to get my new template so I can get my sidebars in a better order.
Love this:"...as I aim to completely re-think my blog presence."

Then there are all of those posts I have over at HSB... not enough time in a day, you know? Anyway, it can at least wait until I get my Homeschool Memoirs and my Saturday Psalm & Praise done. Then there's school planning and starting and GGM to publish next week!! :D

Love your lists. I hope you have an easy time of getting it all in order.

Love ya!
-J
http://jacquedixon.com; 8/23/2008 12:10 AM
Elena LaVictoire said...: Aw shucks... you removed the link to that one online art program that you liked. I investigated that last week but forgot to bookmark the link and I wanted to get it today and it's gone! What was the name of that? It looked great?!; 8/23/2008 9:01 AM
lori said...: Holy smokes...this is INCREDIBLE...wow what a list!!
You can re-THINK your presence...but you just can't GO away!!

love ya!!
I posted about my swap too!!
Neat gal I had this time!:)
You'd LOVE her!!

lori; 8/23/2008 9:49 AM
Sisterlisa said...: What a list! You have a lot of work ahead of you. Tell me why you desire to have such a long archive list showing on the front page? Couldn't you just link the word 'archives' ? It would be less on the side bar.

Maybe list individual items on another page while just linking in the titles of each list on the front page.. Just a thought.

I redesigned HomeSpun Life last night.; 8/23/2008 10:40 AM
Anonymous said...: I completely understand about being user-friendly. I was happy to switch from HSB to wordpress because I can add pages on wordpress. Now my sidebars are quite so cluttered, but still I'm looking around to see if I have any "unnecessaries" on there.

As for the blog-tracking sutff - yes, I agree that your blog should be to better the Kingdom of God and to encourage others in that.... however I found you off of Homeschool Gold (betcha didn't know, huh!?) and then from there the HSBA... If you hadn't been on there we might not be friends today, let alone have met IRL!

I think as long as your traffic isn't something you're obsessed with it and it's not the focus of your blog than I don't think it's harmful. A lot of new bloggers and homeschoolers look on HS ranking sites and click on the top people. Why? Well because a lot of other people seem to enjoy them and they're popular for a reason.

Anyways, sorry for the rant. I'm glad you're cleaning out your hive. :)

Love ya!; 8/23/2008 5:55 PM
Sprittibee said...: Jacque - Yes, rethinking has been going on for a long time. Getting my butt in gear hasn't. I'm finally merging the two - to create an action! I don't even want to think about tackling this for HSBA, but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea.

Elena - The art program I use online is phasing out. It is called GeeArt. They are also the creators of CREATIVITY EXPRESS, and it is a program you can PURCHASE so that you don't have to go online to do the program. You can have it at home and use it with all your kids. It is much cheaper that way. I'm about to do a review of it soon!

Lori - That's only half of the list! LOL I'm not going anywhere but crazy (oh, wait - I'm already there). Love ya, too! Thanks for posting about the swap! Email me your linky!

Sislisa - This isn't gong to be a front page list. It will be a linked graphic on my sidebar that says "look her for my past posts by topic". LOL I'm effectively removing links from my sidebars. All-together! In fact, if and when my blog is re-designed, I might also consider putting all these links in a PAGE and making them easier to use (table format), but that is up to my cool designer lady (someone you know really well).

Miss Jocelyn - Yes, I enjoyed the ranking sites while I had them on there (for the first 3 years of my blogging). Now, I am just going to let go of them. I figure that eventually, people will stumble into my Google snare. LOL Google gives quite a big weight to their Blogger blogs on their search engine. I am figuring that is what happened to me in the first place. LOL No other explanation for it! No - I didn't know you came in from HS Gold. Interesting. Their site went down once and I just deleted them from that point on.; 8/23/2008 7:05 PM
Kelly @ Growing.Learning.Playing. said...: My blog is cluttered as well. I am thinking going from 2 sidebars to just one. Haven't decided yet. I am not one of those "popular" bloggers, though, so most don't really care. Big grin! :-)

I sure have been praying for you and gummi bear!; 8/24/2008 10:43 AM
Dianne - Bunny Trails said...: Nice job, girl! You've been working your little fingers off. Your site loads quickly too. Groovy!; 8/24/2008 10:38 PM