The image worked!

Finally, I found a way to have the title look as I want, all in about a half hour’s work, and four different photos of the image that I originally printed up. Actually the lighting worked out really nice. So the site is coming around to the way I REALLY want it to look. Wasn’t real crazy about the tan colors at first, but it’s grown on me.

I think I’m going to drop about 2/3 of the Amazon ads as well, and maybe go with about 3 or 4 – maybe one with music, the rest with books and “stuff”. Probably change up the art.com sidebar too – it’s time for a bit of a makeover. Also I think I’m going to shorten the pages up some so that maybe it’s only the last 6-8 posts that are shown. It’s because I seem to have “regular” readers and I bet they would rather not scroll down half a mile to read the “Gaggle” cartoon. (Does anyone read that? I think it’s generally pretty funny.) I have at least two local candidates who have told me they read monoblogue, and I’m sure others do too. (Those stealth readers.)

Finally, I left a comment in a comment box a couple posts back but to place it on the main page: I finally found out how to eliminate that annoying problem with the comment box being a mile wide, at least for Microsoft IE. Have no idea if it works for other platforms but Mr. Gates will be happy should he care to comment. I’d like to see a bit more participation…for whatever reason, the spam commenters have decided to cut me some slack for the moment.

Now if I could get more responses to my “Ten Questions”, life would be grand. (Actually, if people would begin to click on my ads and buy stuff, and paying advertisers would knock on my door, it would be cherries and cream – don’t like peaches.) But I’m also thinking of doing that TQ concept on a more local scale later on, and I think that will work out better (hint hint). However, if the initial sendoff for the U.S. Senate doesn’t start showing results, it’s gonna get ugly because I am going to call them out as gutless (and I will name names.)

I know my website doesn’t have a huge number of readers like LGF or Powerline but I don’t focus on national issues either, except to the extent that they may affect the Eastern Shore and Delmarva in general. That’s where my reader base is from by and large. And like I said to each candidate, the internet is such that something I say could be put up worldwide. Fellow Maryland blogger Soccer Dad thought the ten questions were a good idea, so somebody approved.

What I’ve not been able to figure out is why there’s such a great disparity between my “hit rate” and my other stat counter. The hit rate on monoblogue will likely cross the 20,000 barrier this month, it was just under 15,000 as of 5 p.m. yesterday, and anything over 20,000 would be a new high. There were days this week I cracked the 1,000 hit barrier for the first time. But readership is a lot less on my other counter, it’s in the 200-250 per week range. This week should be a new high water mark in that regard, or at least close.

I suppose the hit rate is pumped up somewhat just by me posting, checking the michael@monoblogue.us mailbox, and messing around with the templates and such (which doesn’t count on my other site meter), but I’m not doing more than a few hundred of these in a month – nowhere near 20,000.

One thing that I wonder about as the state of the local blogosphere goes: what’s up with Delmarva Dealings? They haven’t posted in awhile! Hope things are all good with Publius and that cabal.

Brings me to close with an interesting thought I had while sitting at last night’s Shorebird victory. I wonder if any other Delmarva bloggers would like a group outing? We read each other’s stuff but wouldn’t know it if we bumped into one another on the street. (If you’re at a Shorebirds game and see a guy in a Detroit Tigers cap, yep, that’s me. I have fun at the games, particularly on opposing batter strikeouts.)

Longer post than what I expected, but it’s all good. Look for these and other changes coming soon.

Author: Michael

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