This past week or so I've been busy making some changes to this blog. Some are cosmetic, some are new features and some are just "behind the scenes" kind of changes. I hope you like them and I welcome any comments. Listed below are the more significant changes.
Back on August 12th in an effort to make things easier for you to read the articles I've set it up so that you can now easily see my articles on your cell phone or mobile device. The folks at Mofuse made this a very simple process for both of us. Simply click on the Mobile badge and enter your phone number or browse to http://BBLandA.mofuse.mobi/ Give it a try.
I've also added a way for you to give me feedback via a quick 5 star rating system. But please don't hestitate to also leave comments. The rating sytem is from Outbrain. Once in place is very simple to us, just click on the rating you choose. Installing it however was a different manner. Outbrain provides widget for your blog if you use the standard formats. However, if you use "advanced templates" on Typepad it gets very tricky. Unfortunately, Outbrain doesn't provide a lot of guidance on how to adapt advanced templates. I did contact the support staff and they did provide some help but ultimately I had to figure it out on my own. Time permitting I'll write a separate article on how to do this.
I've joined MyBlogLog and have added a widget showing recent visitors to stay connected with MyBlogLog visitors.
In an effort to improve readability I've changed the format and theme. This include a new look and shifting the sidebars to the right side with the content on the left. There were also a few other cosmetic changes.
The final change was a "behind the scenes" one. I modified my blog to use the Technorati tags as keywords for search engine optimization (SEO). For those of you that have your own Typepad blogs you may be aware the the "keywords" section of your post doesn't really have anything to do with SEO. However, thanks to David Weiss over at TypePad Hacks I found a way to add SEO keywords. Check out "A Creative SEO TypePad Hack" for more information. Time permitting I'll also post more details on this for those of you that are interested.
As always I'd love to hear your comments on ways to improve. Thanks for reading.
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