A critical look at my blog layout

Previous Theme

As I said in my previous post, I had been looking critically at the layout of my blog following the brainstorming session.
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“Traffic Fortnight”….?

Well, here it is the Fourth Day of Christmas already, and I figure an update is long overdue. I have to confess I’ve fallen somewhat behind schedule… I hope most people have been able to balance Christmas and work more effectively than I have! Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying a happy Christmas, and I wish you a fulfilling and prosperous new year.

Despite all that, I certainly haven’t been totally off-task…. One particularly gratifying event for me since my my last post was winning Gary Simpson’s ‘Project X competition’
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Wordpress Videos

I’ve been watching instructional videos on this kind of Wordpress blogging (ie on your own site rather than theirs). Although the example didn’t include a blogroll (hence the last post), the videos  are very clear and easy to follow. I’m allowed to give them away, so if you want to use them you can download the zip file here:-

http://jameswoodfield-online.com/wordpress-uncovered-lite.zip .
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The blogroll

Well, that took me about an hour to suss out – I was searching Wordpress for help with installing one, and wondering “is it a widget, is it a plug-in, or what…

Of course, it turns out to be just a link category, which didn’t seem to appear as an empty list, but appeared once I just started adding students as links…

Also I’ve just realised that Garry wasn’t suggesting we all put everyone else on our blogroll – no need, as the student list is accessible through his blog. So that’ll save some work…

Next stage: the blogroll

Before I start the business of making this blog more user – friendly and presentable, the first step is to link up with all the others in the programme via a blogroll.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to do that! So far I can’t even see how to include one on the page, let alone fill it up with links…

A message from Garry

Before I go any further with this I would like to draw your attention to Garry’s recent post on his blog.

He writes:
“HOW I CAN HELP YOU GET A SLICE OF THE MILLION DOLLARS UP FOR GRABS THAT ALEX TOLD US ABOUT
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Hello World… (- well, Alex’s Army, anyway!)

By the time the rest of the world finds my blog, I hope it’ll be in a fitter state!

I’m really starting from scratch here, as you can see… I’ve used Blogger before, but Wordpress is new territory for me, so watch me as I learn! And maybe give me a hand if I need it?…