The Week of Technology

Please bear with me. I'm trying to bear with myself. The list of topics I intend to blog about grows exponentially daily. However, in my quest to make this blog functional and aesthetically pleasing, I've been focusing on the design and technology aspects. As you can see, I learned how to put a "subscribe by email" link on my page. That took about two days. Here's what I intend to accomplish:

1. Learn how to create a "read more" link so that my entire postings don't ramble on, on the face of the blog. Apparently there's some tricky html involved with this. Might be awhile.

2. I really love the photo I have associated with Noisy Chicagoan. However, the trained designer eye (and maybe the untrained eye) notices that there is a light green border on the right side of the photo...and it doesn't look right. It doesn't look HORRIBLE but it doesn't look right. I'm assuming I could photoshop the picture but I'm not sure if that would compromise the pixels or something. Any thoughts?

3. I need to add "tags" (that's what they're called right?) so the postings can be brought up under any one specific topic. Get ready for an onslaught of a lot of random topics. What do I file the edible anus chocolates under? Miscellaneous? Perversions? lol.

4. I'd like to play around with the headings and their colors, sizes and fonts and placement. I really like the way Cancun Canuck did her page layout in terms of the headings and tags etc....All in all, she's got a great blog. Among others.

5. Which leads me to my fifth, and as far as I know at this moment, last item to tackle before I am satisfied about blogging real content where I can invite readers....completing my blog roll. There are so many amazing blogs out there. Much like life the ones I randomly ran across became like favorite books of mine, except they are ongoing and multidimensional and even interactive! Beats television every day to learn about people's lives and the diversity people bring to the world.

Ok that's enough for right now. I'm at work and dreading breaking the news to my boss that my Costa Rican vacation is actually going to have me gone 8 days from the office and not 5. I'm sweatin yo.....I'm sweatin......