Well the Bloggiesta is over and I didn't get everything done, but I'm going to continue working on my blog during this week. I wish I would have had more time to work this weekend, but with everything else going on it just didn't work out. I still spent a lot of time on my blog. Here are my final results
Time Spent on Bloggiesta: 15.25 hours
Mini-Challenges Completed: Emily's Reading Room's Challenge Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile's Challenge. Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?'s Challenge Bookish Ruth Grade Your Blog
Comments left: Was I supposed to keep track of this? I'd guess upwards twenty.
What I liked best: Getting time work solely on my blog without feeling like I should be doing something else, the community that we created and the great blogs that I found! I picked up some great ideas as well and I'm going to have to add them soon.
Things I didn't like: That I didn't have more time!
Yesterday was a very successful Bloggiesta day. I found some good ideas by perusing other people's blogs, but I would like to do more of that today. Basically today is going to be my mini-challenge day. One thing I didn't figure out yesterday though is why my image uploader is being stupid, so maybe I will find time to figure that one out today. Here is a list of some mini-challenges I plan on completing today:
1. Write some back-up opinion and list posts for Beth Fish Reads' Challenge. 2. Set up Google alerts for Emily's Reading Room's Challenge. 3. Add my blog to a few directories for Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile's Challenge. 4. Get a Favicon and Gravatar for Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?'s Challenge. 5. I also need to redo the post I lost yesterday. *Argh*
And now I have a question for all of you. Does it frustrate you when link text is the same color as normal text like mine is right now? After changing my font color yesterday I realize they are now the same, which means you have to hover if you want to see if something is a link. Please let me know so I can change it if it's annoying!
Happy blogging!
EDIT: Thanks so much to everyone who helped me with my links! I've decided to leave them as is for now as the general consensus seems to be that they are okay. You guys are awesome!
My first day of Bloggiesta! For those of you who don't know, Bloggiesta is hosted by Maw Books Blog. It's basically a chance for bloggers to make their blogs well oiled machines. So let's do this. I'm actually going to be quite busy this weekend, but the majority of my time outside of busy life is going to be spent on this blog (or reading of course). There are a few things that I do want to do to my blog (or quite a few things) so hopefully I can manage to get everything done. School starts for me again in a week and a half and I'd love to get things in tip top shape before the storm hits!
So what am I doing today: 1. I want to change my default font and I want all of you to help me out with this. I am going to post a few different colors and I want to hear some feedback people! You can check out the colors at the bottom of this post. 2. Make a post template and get one of those lovely signatures I see on so many blogs. This will hopefully save me lots of time in the future. 3. Related to number two, I would like to figure out why my image uploader is being stupid. I will be looking into that. 4. I want to add a few neat gadgets (you'll see them later I'm sure) to my sidebars. 5. Visit other blogs to get more ideas and connect with new bloggers. 6. Fix header. 7. Add meta-tags. 8. Resize images on all posts. 9. Add Amazon Affiliate Disclaimer on all reviews.
So this is the plan for Friday. And as promised, new colors:
Do you like this one? Or perhaps this one, or at least something like it? Or this one, or also something like it?
If you have an idea for something you think would look better please let me know! I know the grey can be tiring.
_____________________________________________________________ Thanks to everyone who helped me pick my new font! I hope this is easier to read.
So far I've completed one mini-challenge. Bookish Ruth is hosting the Grade Your Blog mini-challenge. I graded my blog and the first time I got a 76 which was pretty good. After adding meta-tags I got an 81.
I have lost one post today so I think my next task will be backing up all my old posts.
