Spiffy New Design for Blog

April 5, 2007 9:09 PM
Related Categories: Technology, Web Dev

I was so tired of my lame looking blog I decided to do something about it. I found an open source design by NodeThirtyThree to use. The original design was only two column. So I made it wider and added another narrow column.

I use BlogCFC (thanks Ray) as my blog engine and so I opted to upgrade to the latest version of BlogCFC at the same time. Upgrading was simple enough, as was integrating my new design.

Please let me know if you see anything off. I have tested in IE7 and FF but I don't have IE6 here to test with.

Of course when I decided to do all of this I also decided to upgrade my server to BlueDragon 7. I did have a few programming quirks to fix, but mostly things that BD 6 did that it shouldn't have done and were fixed in 7.

All in all it has been a good 24 hours!


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I love the new design Joshua... keep it up...
# Posted By John Ramon | 4/5/07 9:35 PM
Thanks! I am working on social blogging things like mybloglog and blogcatalog now. Learning what I can and trying to see if they will add value to my blog. Have you used them? You can see an example to the right below the google ads.

I have an idea or two for CFBloggy. Probably in another month or two though.
# Posted By Joshua | 4/5/07 9:46 PM
Well if you're talking about making money let me know, I've only made 80 in 6 months with Google Ads, as for CFBloggy I'm going to focus on getting it ready, I promise...hehe
# Posted By John Ramon | 4/5/07 10:00 PM
Yo, John Ramon - you've only made $80 on your blog in 6 months? Let's assume (conservatively, I'm sure) that you have spent 2 hours per week with your blog - not too bad, right?

You've spent 52 hours total on your blog - doesn't seem like much - for an effective wage of... wait for this... $1.54/hour - you ballin'!

Seriously, though, I have a job where you could make AT LEAST twice that - hit me up, bro!
# Posted By SEO Gangsta | 4/6/07 1:03 AM
To be fair I don't think John has tried to make money with his blog other than tossing adsense up there. And there isn't anything wrong with that, most people don't expect to make money on their blog, it is there for other reasons. While I make money on my web properties my blog is probably the least monied of them. I don't get enough traffic that pays I suppose. That and I haven't really tried. In fact I didn't have any means of making money on my blog until a couple months ago, and the redesign yesterday was a move to making my blog better in many ways hopefully including revenue.
# Posted By Joshua Cyr | 4/6/07 8:20 AM
You hit it on the head josh, I am in fact not trying to earn a living with my blog but it's a tool for me to learn new ideas and technics, nut if I could earn a few bucks well I don't see anything wrong with that.

SEO Gangsta send me an email with more info =)
# Posted By John Ramon | 4/6/07 11:06 AM
"nut if I could earn a few bucks"

Look, I'm not sure what that means, but one thing is fo sho' - it gots to be all about da benjamin's. Here's a quick rap for you guys:

Ramon's blog doesn't make jack
But Joshua Cyr still gots his back
Why you start a blog if you ain't gettin' paid?
That's like callin' up the cops and askin' for a raid
# Posted By SEO Gangsta | 4/6/07 11:26 AM
Hah, that rap just made me spit out my drink.
# Posted By Joshua Cyr | 4/6/07 11:29 AM
My sides hurt!!!!
# Posted By John Ramon | 4/6/07 11:32 AM
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