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When I first started this blog I had meant it to be just another John Chow look-alike blog, where I posted useless “tips” and hoped for large audiences to come pouring in. I lost my focus, got busy, and more-or-less let this blog sink into the shadows. But today I am resurrecting it.
I’ve thought a lot about what I really want from this blog lately, and I’ve come to a conclusion. Over the past couple of years I’ve learned a lot about my meaning of happiness and and what I want out of life. To reflect this, and because this blog bears my name, the shift in my blogging will be to self-improvement. This covers a wide variety of things including being happy, financial freedom, time-management, learning…and who knows how many other categories. You should expect to see posts about saving money, cutting down stress in your life, and eating healthy. I think this shift will help my writing to become more focused and less stressful.
Of course ultimately this blog is still all about one thing: Me. 
In order to convey this shift in my blog I also wanted a new theme. I wanted a theme that had a photo-friendly header space and a three-column layout. What I ended up with was the Mandigo theme, which actually fit my bill perfectly. Here’s some features of the new layout:
- Rotating banner: With each refresh and page view the banner image rotates. Most of the banner photos are taken by myself, but a few were found on the internet (copyright free, of course).
- Random quotes: In the far right sidebar at the top you will notice “Inspirational quotes”. Like the header, these quotes also rotate with each page view, giving you new inspiration with each page!
- Flickr gallery: Directly underneath the “Inspirational quotes” are four thumbnails from my Flickr gallery. Clicking on any one of those will take you to my Flickr page where you can view all of my photos.
The overall point of all these features was to provide inspiration while at the same time a little relaxing scenery. I hope everyone enjoys this shift in my blog. Now everyone should subscribe to my RSS so you can come back and learn to live a happier life!
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February 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Making money online is definitely hard. I’m “beginning” my journey. Although I’ve been blogging in some form or another, I haven’t really been serious about exploring the money making aspect of it.
I’m now doing that with my semi pro blogging site. But I’m realistic. I’ll do it in my spare time. For fun. And I’ll keep my full time job. Actually, it’s a job that I love. So there’s no way, even if I made a nice income from blogging that I would leave it.
Anyways, great site and good luck to you in your journey.
Cheers.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:09 am
I like the rotating banner feature, How did you do that? Do we have some plugin in wordpress for that?