Maya Norton's Page

Improving My Blog Presentation: Sidebars

* Cleaning up sidebars to reflect only sites of direct relevance to my blog (and not my general interest)

* Adding items to my sidebar that may seem obvious to me, but are important for general knowledge (e.g. news links)

Improving User Friendliness

* Adding tags to each entry in addition to the sidebar categories

* Adding a links section at the bottom of each… Continue

Christine and Michele, I just saw your comments now. It's so nice to be missed. Thanks for your nice words.

I can't wait to get back in the game of learning how to use this community better. As of now I'm still working against a backlog, but I'm happy to report my blog is quite healthy and I didn't lose any readers at all. In my absentia, the numbers stayed quite steady, which was surprising to me as I only started in it mid-August.

I'm very interested in this week's contest… Continue

Hello friends,

You may have noticed my sudden disappearance. My computer crashed irreparably and I was waiting until now for a new one. Thankfully, it has just arrived.

I look forward to reengaging with the group and keeping up with all of our good work.


Best,

Maya

I've taken my first directed step toward building a better blog through this community.

Here is the entry in question: http://thenewjew.wordpress.com/about/.

To make my about page-- which gets the second most hits of any entry and the most ongoing hits-- more user friendly, informative, and to drive readers deeper into the blog, I've done the following:

• Reword the text to better reflect my blogging goals and the aims of my journal


• Pointed re

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