Building A Better Blog: Design Changes and Upgrades

I have been so busy messing with the blog itself for the last couple of weeks that I really haven't had to time to do any posts on the newest toys. I will try to make up for that in next few weeks, however Spring has sprung so my weekends are pretty busy with other things.

Recreating old posts...

Using the Waybackmachine, I have been able to recreate some of the older posts that have been lost when Blog.com bit the dust. Check out some of the older posts from 2013-2015!

Rebuilding Blogroll

For some odd reason all the blog links in my Blogroll disappeared. I am in the process of rebuilding the Blogroll. This is very frustrating.

An Amazing Way to Auto-Share to Social Media

Social Media is a necessary evil. If you want to publicize your latest blog post, then you need to let your readers know whenever there is a new post, so a Facebook page and a Twitter account for the blog are absolutely required. This doesn't mean you have waste your time after posting a new update sharing the post by hand to the media you are using to promote it.

Making a better blog...

As you can see if you look at the time stamps on my recent posts I stayed up all night Saturday night working on this blog. I wasn't just putting up posts either, I was coding! And as we all know the best coding happens in the middle of the night.

What I learned about Blogging and Image Storage

Some of the posts made to this blog back when it was hosted at Blog.com were recently found and a valuable lesson was learned.
Consistently store posted images on an external image storage site! Postimg.org was and is the blog's external image host site.The only problem? It was never consistently used! In other words, sometimes images were posted using the blog's local image storage and other times postimg.org was used.

A Happy Find & Construction Continues...

I am still working on getting set up here at the new host site. I wish I had moved long ago, but I was just to busy to get it all set up. Blogger is so much easier to use than Wordpress, at least it seems that way to me.


I was able to find an archived back-up of the blog and was able to recover a few old posts from 2013! What a happy find. These were posts from the days when the toy blog was devoted to Sea-Monkeys.

Moving blog hosts

I have used blog.com to host this blog for a few years. It was never very reliable but I had so many posts and pictures there that I never really ever moved. Well it has come back to bite me that I never exported it. Blog.com is dead. I haven't been able to load it for several months now. I have moved the blog here but I don't have any of the old posts. Here we start a-new! Enjoy...

Technical Difficulties

Please be patient my blog provider Blog.com is experiencing problems again today. If you get any errors please try reloading the page.

Welcome back...

Blog.com has been offline for last 36 hours. For now the site will stay here but I am going to have to move if this keeps up. I will most likely move to wordpress but I will lose features when I do that. I am trying now to figure out how to get the blog backed up so the move will be easy. I will certainly post a link to the new site if and when I get it ready.

New Blog Theme

I have been searching for a nice easy loading blog theme and I think I have finally found it. I switched to Headlines by Woo Themes, it is nice and clean, easy to read and navigate, and it has a nice variety of options.

Do pardon my dust as I tweak this theme in the next few days.

Fixed: Email Subscriptions

If you have been trying to subscribe to the blog using the email subscription widget, it is fixed now and directs properly.