improve my blog

I also put in a search box! Yes. I’ve been wanting this, and didn’t ever notice it as one of the standard gadgets.

Does anyone know how to make a blog post so that only part of it appears on the main page, and when you click you get to see the whole thing? Often they say “more after the jump” or “continue reading”. Whenever I try to loop up how to do that google gives a bazillion hits for the phrase, but not the how to. That would make my page look a ton better.

I found my missing thumb drive!!! Wow, I really thought it was gone forever.
It has stats on every hike I took for all of 2007 and 2008. I thought I would just write a quicky entry about each of them to get a bunch of content onto the blog. But I found out tonight that there is no such thing as a quickie entry when I want to do a good job. I just spent 2 hours writing one entry!

Maybe one per day for as long as it takes I should get to my goal of 43 trail logs within a month or so. I have 9 so far, along with some other content.

http://pdxdayhiker.blogspot.com/

• Think about if this should be a group blog For now, no. I my hiking buddies don’t seem the least interested in my blog, let alone excited enough to even want to participate, so that solves itself.
• Figure out how to edit and post trail maps without infringing on copyrights. – Still not clear if this is even possible, hoping to find a way to use GPS software and topo maps, or google earth, but not sure how or if these will be free. Seems not possible
• Decide if this should be just a trail log or also a fitness blog. – This will evolve naturally I think. Its going to be a trail log, and sometimes include non-hiking fitness things that also happen on trails.
• Post 43 complete trail reviews – Obviously this one will take a while.
• Find my thumb drive and post quicky summary reviews of all past hikes. I’m afraid it’s lost for good, my hiking file and a bunch of other stuff as well.
• Set up categories of label links for easy searching

Overall I think it’s going pretty well. I’m getting a lot of hits from search engines, although it doesn’t appear to be drawing many repeat-readers so far. Maybe that will change as more content is added.
http://pdxdayhiker.blogspot.com

http://pdxdayhiker.blogspot.com

• Think about if this should be a group blog
• Figure out how to edit and post trail maps without infringing on copyrights. – Still not clear if this is even possible, hoping to find a way to use GPS software and topo maps, or google earth, but not sure how or if these will be free. Seems not possible
• Decide if this should be just a trail log or also a fitness blog.
• Post 43 complete trail reviews
• Find my thumb drive and post quicky summary reviews of all past hikes.
• Set up categories of label links for easy searching

I have just recently started a fashion blog, http://fraupixiedust.blogspot.com … I need to get a bigger audience as the first step :)

Hint – HR Rank Up
To rank up from HR1 to HR2, you must complete the following 4-star Gathering Hall Guild quests:

• The Land Shark
• Trouble in the Swamp
• Jungle Menace
• Attack of the Yian Kut-Ku
• Catch a Yian Kut-Ku
• Catch a Gypceros

After you have completed the above quests, an Emergency Quest (Four Horns) will appear. Clear it for HR2 rank. To rank up from HR2 to HR3, you must complete the following 5-star Gathering Hall Guild quests:

• Basarios: Unseen Peril
• Wyvern in the Darkness
• Get me a live Khezu!
• The Desert Plesioth
• Water Wyvern in the Jungle
• The Runaway Diablos
• The Fearsome Gravios
• A Troublesome Pair

After you have completed the above quests, an Emergency Quest (Giant Dragon Invasion) will appear. Clear it for HR3 rank. To rank up from HR3 to HR4, you must complete the following 6-star Gathering Hall Guild quests:

• Attack of the Yian Kut-Ku
• Trapped by Yian Kut-Ku
• Trouble in the Swamp
• The Poison Siege
• The Two Sand Shadows

After you have completed the above quests, an Emergency Quest (Thunderous Duo) will appear. Clear it for HR4 rank. To rank up from HR4 to HR5, you must complete the following 7-star Gathering Hall Guild quests:

• The Shadow in the Cave
• Basarios: Invisible Terror
• Two Rock Wyverns
• The Land and the Sky

After you have completed the above quests, an Emergency Quest (Pink & Azure) will appear. Clear it for HR5 rank.

To unlock the normal Fatalis quest, you must complete the following 8-star Gathering Hall Guild quests:

• Queen of the Jungle (Gold)
• Slay the Rathalos (Silver)
• Water Wyvern in the Jungle (Green)
• The Runaway Diablos
• The Runaway Diablos (Black)
• Volcanic Valor
• Wyverns of Land and Sky (Gold & Silver)

After you have completed the above quests, an Emergency Quest (Giant Dragon Invasion) will appear. Clear it to unlock Legendary Black Dragon mission. Clear that to unlock Plate of Calamity, Rage of Yian Garuga, and Thunder & Lightning.

I started http://www.andamom.com back in April. I had various ideas for topics and have generally enjoyed the freedom to post about any number of things that are on my mind. Having had a journal on LJ, I was familiar with the concept of posting regularly—but having my own blog changed my sense of wanting to create something for a wider audience on a regular basis. I wanted to openly write about topics that people felt were useful in their daily lives. That’s been my focus ever since. However, I haven’t had the time to do what I ultimately wanted to do with the site. And, I wonder if I did whether I’d be able to generate greater traffic.

So, my goal of making my blog more popular has been a hard one… If anyone has insight that might assist me, definitely let me know…

Thanks…

I’ve started to like what my blog looks like, its content and the feedback I receive shows me I’m not writing for nothing. I’ll keep on working on this goal, but I believe I can say I have achieved a great deal of it.

Lets just say its going to contunually be a working progress :D

Started a blog but hadn’t done anything with it so have updated it a little today http://www.piczo.com/jojostevie.

Just have to keep it updated now x