• Now on Twitter; Cosmetic Changes; New Poll...

I'm not sure how successful this latest idea will be. I signed up on Twitter, a social networking site with real-time updates. There were just too many things going on with the blog that I wanted to post about here, but were too miniscule to really justify making an entire post. Twitter fills that void. The feed is listed in the sidebar at bassfishingdem.blogspot.com, but I will be adding it to the sidebar on this blog shortly. A Twitter link is also listed in the subscription section.

Along the same lines, I added a new poll about social networking. Do you use it? I listed a few of the popular social networking sites and added two fishing-specific social networks to the list as well. Be sure to take the poll and tick the boxes for the networks you belong to. It will help me decide how to distribute my time and effort towards publicizing the blog and posting other information.

I have also been making a lot of cosmetic changes to the blog. Maybe you noticed or maybe you did not. The first change I made was to spread out the opening section entitled "Getting Around" where I discuss the various ways of navigating around the blog. I moved the Table of Contents widget to the top again. I changed the line spacing in the Recent Comments, Blogs of Interest, and Fishing Links widgets to shorten the sidebar a little. I also modified my post-footer by replacing the default theme's separator line with a horizontal rule code. I shifted around the Labels, comments link, and the other interactive items at the bottom of each post to give everything a cleaner look.

I am toying with the idea of going to a white background on the blog. The tan just isn't doing it for me anymore and a white background might make everything easier to read. A white background is rather conventional in the blogging world for that reason. I also need to start working on a header image. Plain text at the top just isn't very exciting.