Get Rid Of What You Don’t Need
January 11, 2008
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Once a month I’m going do something to the blog to modify it or clean it up a bit - get rid of stuff that doesn’t fit the anymore, just basically de-clutter a little. And I’d encourage you to do the same thing.
When you modify the site a little bit if forces you to take a good honest look at the page to see what might be working, and what might not. That widget that you installed on the sidebar a few months ago was pretty cool back then, but now? Not so much.
Or maybe it’s the ‘Please Subscribe To My Feed’ plug at the bottom of each post. Try rewording it, or making the text larger or smaller. Just do *something* that makes you actually look at your site. A lot of people spend so much time on their blog that they don’t even really see it anymore. Hopefully this’ll force you to.
I’ve decided to move the MyBlogLog stuff to its own page, for a number of reasons, with quicker load times being the primary one. Plus, it doesn’t really *add* anything to the blog other than to let me know who stopped by. So I’ve added it to its own page where you’re more than welcome to see who else reads the site.
Like I said, it doesn’t have to be a major thing, just as long as it’s something.
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January 11th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Yeah, true. I noticed only recently that my blog had this blog rating widget that was never used for the past three months
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January 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I agree with you. I have the same habit, and I’d also posted the same idea in my blog. I hope you don’t mind me sharing it with you:
Improvement Using Addition By Subtraction
-Saedel
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January 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Hey Bloggingnotes,
Add this:
#headliner {padding: 3px 0px 0px 0px;}
To the bottom of your stylesheet and it will bring the upper right heading line down a little.
I zoomed ya!
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I think my blog is decluttered to the max. In fact, the only people that see some things are visitors from search engines.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Indeed it is, RT. Uncluttered is definitely how I’d describe your site.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 am
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