Site Additions
As with many things, I like to continue to make changes and enhancements to my website. I think it is fun to make changes to my site and it also helps me learn more about making sites generally. My website is beginning to be kind of a storage system of sorts for some of my hobbies. Here’s a quick little overview of some of the enhancements I’ve made recently:
The main thing I have begun storing on my site is obviously my pictures. I’ve been adding a ton of pictures to my site in the last few weeks. I have begun to take my camera where ever I go more and more which means I take many more pictures. I have come up with some pretty cool pictures by simply having my camera with me and ready to go when interesting things happen. As always, you can check out my picture explorations from either my main page or from my galleries page. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures I have recently taken:
The second addition I have made to my site is a page devoted to funny, ironic, or thought provoking quotes. I usually add a couple good quotes to this page each week. Along with having the full quote list on this quote page, I also have a little section in my sidebar that displays a different random quote every time the page it loaded. I really like having these quotes archived so I can go back and find these bits of wisdom in the future.
The third addition to my site revolves around the wonderful theme of finance and money. First off, I have added a page talking about Crown Financial Ministries and my connection with Crown. Crown has a great mission and I am really excited to be associated with them. Secondly, I just started a page where I have begun to gather a whole bunch of personal finance tips, articles, and websites that I find around the web. While I don’t have that many links there yet, I have been adding quite a few recently. I have categorized these links so that people can quickly find a particular subject they are interested in and find the information they are looking for. My hope with this page is that it will be a good resource for people on a wide range of personal financial topics and can help them find information on their individual situations. I also intend for this page to be a good repository for information that I could possibly use when helping others in my Crown ministry. If you come across a really good finance article, send it my way and help me add to this page.
Lastly, I changed the sidebar on all my site’s pages other than my main blog page. I greatly shortened the sidebar for these other pages which will help them load a little bit quicker and not have so much blank space below the actual content on these pages. I am really glad I took the time to figure this out as I have been wanted to institute this change for a while. I’ll probably tweak this sidebar as I think of new and useful things to add to it.