A Day In My Life

I’ve posted here about my fondness for personal web pages, and about Babble. When I found the game, it didn’t take long for me to upgrade to the Pro version, and I’ve been Babbling ever since. About 3 days into the game, I decided to collect all of the resources and links I could find for the game into a central location on a personal page for easy access. That worked great, then I decided to see if other players liked the idea. I sent an e mail to the owner of the Babble site, who responded that if I could put my page online, I could post a link to it in the Babble messages site. Great. Now what do I do? I don’t have a personal website online. A quick Google search and some reading led me to a free web host, and voila! My new Babble page has a home online: My Babble Resource page. I put information about my page into my Babble profile, and other players began asking about it. Then they looked at the online page, and several of them have asked me to create similar pages for them. Thus far, I’ve delivered two, with several more on my to-do list. It’s a good way to have fun, support the site in my own way, and continue developing my coding skills. I’m even going to be making my own templates from scratch. Who knows? I may even submit one or more of my own to OSWD. Stranger things have happened…

I have used personal web pages for a while now, and I don’t know how I ever survived without them. I currently have several sets for different purposes. I enjoy the process of creating the pages almost more than I enjoy using them, and I’ve even changed templates for some of my sets. Of course, creating and editing the pages requires knowledge of html.

for Valentine’s Day, my move to this new template is just about complete. I still have some minor tweaking to do and a couple of items to put in place, but the biggest portion of it is finished. It really does feel like a breath of fresh air.

I did enjoy the old template, but the black was depressing after awhile. I’ve done some major housecleaning along the way as well, by removing much of the old sidebar content, because it was superfluous and really didn’t belong in a blog. When I first began tinkering with Blogger templates, my blog was a major resource that I used as a springboard to all sorts of sites and content on the internet. Now, however, I use a set of personal pages for the vast majority of the former sidebar content. The end result, I believe, is a fresher, faster loading and cleaner blog.

For the moment, this is a site still under remodeling, so be sure to watch out for falling hypertext code. I have been wanting to brighten up the place for a while now, and I finally decided to “just do it.” I wanted to use red and white as my color theme, but my eyes rebelled, so I’ve settled on this “peachy” scheme instead. I still have a lot of work to do to get the template finished, but I think it’s a good start. I used the PsycHo template generator to create the theme, and it was surprisingly easy. And it will be very easy to edit or change as need or desire arises.