Pimping My Blog Site

I have embarked on a personal project which I called “Pimping My Blog Site”. I find the title funny hehehe! Anyway my experimental site is at blogger which you can view by clicking here. As you can see I already have started placing “blings” on the experimental site.

I have also enabled multiply’s cross-posting features so anything that I post at my blogger blog page will also be posted at my multiply page which you can view here. At the same time I will be posting the same entries into my wordpress account which you can view here. I have too many blog sites? That is what I thought. I am actually thinking of registering a domain so that movement from one blog site to another will not be felt by those who link to me. If you have been with me for a number of years, you will know that I move a lot.

But having a domain doesn’t solve the multi site, you might have commented. I am thinking of letting go of my wordpress account and might move back to blogger. Yup I know movements like this are very rare. Usually, blogger users move to wordpress because of the support and features. I find wordpress very feature-rich and impressive but the “web developer” in me wants more freedom, and blogger gives me that. And take note that I am talking about the free wordpress account and not a personal, hosted wordpress server. Eventually I will move to a third-party hosted server but for now, I will stay with the free hosting services.

Anyway back to the “pimpage” and “blings”. So far I have placed there a picasaweb album slideshow and a Yahoo! Custom calendar linked to my archives from PurpleMoggy. Then again, I would want to have Google products as much as possible in a Google-based blog site so I am thinking of replacing the calendar with Google Calendar linked to my archives. I tried searching for it in Google but I found none. So I am considering building my own through Google API unless someone can point me to a ready-made calendar. That, I will cover on my future articles.

So that’s it! Let the“pimping” begin! ^^.