A quick note to start: I apologize to everyone that I was incommunicado this weekend. I swore to Katie that I would take a weekend away from the computer especially after all the time I spent on it last week. So I did. It felt good. But I don't want any of you to feel like I'm neglecting your messages, both e-mails and comments. I will tend to them sometime today with replies of some sort. And I will also return to my old habit of replying personally to comments left on the blog. I gave that up during the promotion for fear that my replies might offer up a little too much information unintentionally. So, now, that is back as well.
Now that the Lost Blogs/GBBMC promotion is over and done with, I think it may be time to revisit my site a little bit.
Some of you may have noticed that I tweaked my sidebar a week or so ago. It needed a bunch of clean-up work done to it as there was just too much crap in it. Thankfully, I got rid of a lot of it, condensed some more, and reordered where things are located.
Now that the promotion is done, I can remove the Lost Blogs blogroll.
However, as a result of this promotion, I've found a ton of new blogs I really like and need to add them to my own "Befriend Me" list. But I think I may switch that to a real blogroll as I prefer the spacing that blogrolls use between entries instead of the default double spacing that Typepad uses. Since I'm adding more, I'd like to cut down on the space that is occupied over there.
Plus, I'm thinking about cutting down the number of entries that are posted on this homepage at any given time. Right now, I have it set for 10 full entries. When I do something like a photo entry, you can wind up scrolling forever and a day to finally get to the bottom. Maybe I'll try cutting it down to one week's worth of posts. Seven at a time might be nice.
I might also try a new header graphic. While I like the yo-yo, I'm getting a bit sick of it. I thought about seasonal banners. Heck, I even considered changing them monthly, but I'm just not that motivated.
I wish TypePad allowed me to incorporate a JavaScript image rotation script in the header. I can write the script; that's the easy part. I've done it enough times elsewhere. But getting them to plug it in would be the pain. I don't have access to the code in the header. Dammit.
Do you guys have any suggestions for ways to clean this place up a bit? What have you done on revisits to your own design elements? Let me know. I don't want to steal anything that others have done, but if I can develop my own ideas from your suggestions, great!
