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Just a little update this morning -

Some of you know I also have a blog called The Weight Loss Papers where I was chronicling my weight loss journey. But as I have not updated that blog for over a year since I usually just post here about those issues, I decided I will not be renewing my domain name for that site when it’s due in March.

So, I have imported all of the posts from that blog to this one. You’ll find them dispersed in between the regular posts here according to their dates. You can still go to The Weight Loss Papers at this point, but it will cease to exist on March 12th.

Be blessed,

A few months ago, I tried to install the disqus comment system. I have a disqus account and really like being able to post comments on other blogs and be able to track them. But I didn’t like how it worked on my site so after a few weeks, I uninstalled it.

And now I’m going to try re-installing it. So, if things seem broken or other-wise borked, blame it on disqus!

Please bear with me while I sort any kinks and do let me know if you have any trouble. (You can send me an email from the contact page.)

Also, I may be playing around with a few other things – possibly the header and maybe even the site design.

Thanks!

In the arena,

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Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

Hey! I’m writing this to you from the Wordpress app on my mobile. It’s pretty cool so far and I’m hoping it will allow me to update things much more often.

I hope you had a great Veteran’s Day Wednesday if you’re here in the US. And if you are a Vet, please accept my deepest gratitude for your service to our nation. We are free because of you. Thank you!

Have a fabulous weekend, all!

~Annie Anderson

Well, I’m having a few behind the scenes issues again with WordPress. Actually, more like my database tables are malfunctioning and causing file size errors, which partly have to do with my web host. So they are making things not work correctly for me in the admin area.

I know that’s likely a foreign language to some of you – I apologize. Just suffice it to say, the software and such that runs AA|Blog is not working correctly.

But I think I’ve got the latest issue resolved. If you notice anything out of the ordinary (assuming you’re reading this on the site and not in an RSS reader or email), please let me know ASAP.

There are a few things disabled at the moment, so if you notice some things missing that are normally around (like CommentLuv or something, for example), rest assured those will be resuming as soon as possible.

Again, though, let me know if anything is out of whack – buttons in the wrong places, links that may not be working, or anything like that – so that I can fix them as well. Since I’m having these problems in the admin area, I may not notice things out of the ordinary happening on the blog itself.

So . . . there you have it! And I’m tired (it’s after midnight, even) so I’m off to bed, finally.

In the arena,

“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.” ~ Forrest Gump’s Mama

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

Update 7.9.2009 – I’ve deactivated disqus. I really don’t like how that it doesn’t seem compatible with CommentLuv and the author highlight plugins I’m using. Disqus has potential and maybe later it will work inline with the others but for now, I won’t be using it.

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Just wanted to take a moment to let you know I’m adding the DISQUS comment system to my blog. It’s importing all of the current comments but it may take a while to get the most recent ones imported. So, if you’ve commented recently and don’t see it there, just be patient!

I’m not sure I’m going to like disqus – we’ll see. So far, it seems to have some limitations and I don’t know if the other plugins that I have for comments (like the author comment plugin that uses a different color for my comments and commentluv) are compatible. I hope so because I like commentluv and don’t want to lose it. If it doesn’t work well with those, I will be uninstalling disqus as I’d rather have the colored author comments and commentluv than it.

So let me know what you think, if you like/dislike disqus or if you have any trouble with it.

Thanks! And I’ll be back with more interesting posts soon.

In the arena,

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. ~ James Gordon, M.D.

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

Just wanted to note some additional changes and housekeeping that will be taking place in the next few days as I adjust things to the new theme.

There are some pictures on older posts which aren’t formatting properly so I’ll be updating those and adding captions where I can.

If you notice anything else broken or odd looking, please contact me and let me know.

This theme is meant to have only excerpts on the home page and although I’ve been seriously opposed to that (and basically still am), I’m going to give it a try and see what happens. It should NOT affect anything in the RSS feed, though, and if you read my blog in a reader, you should still get full posts. (THAT is one thing I will NEVER change! I hate excerpts in feeds!)

I’m also going to be adding a couple of new plugins that will allow more options. One of those is a header rotator. That way, each time a page is refreshed, you’ll get a different header. It keeps things fun and exciting! I plan to have the current header plus 3-4 more. So, not too many – just enough to add variety.

And you may find some colors changing over the course of the next few days. I installed a plugin yesterday that highlights my comments whenever I reply to comments on a post and right now, I’ve got it set to a light blue. While I like it, I’m not sure it’s the best fit. So, I’m going to play around with that color and possibly the page background color.

There are also some widgets that SHOULD be showing up in the right sidebar which aren’t. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why. But hopefully that issue will be resolved soon too.

On another note, look for a new Around the Web post this week as well as a new Reading List. I haven’t done either of those for quite some time and that’s got to change! They’re 2 of the most popular things on this blog and I enjoy writing them as well.

Let me see . . .

Oh! More posts coming up on recent events including The Teenagers NJROTC Annual Inspection and Parade that took place a few weeks ago (with pics!) plus some new wallpapers for March that I think you’ll like.

Okay, I think that’s it for now. I hope you’re having a wonderful day wherever you are. It’s overcast and windy here in Seattle but I’m feeling much better today – except I seem to have lost my voice – but for feeling better, I’m very thankful!

In the arena,

Things do not change; we change. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

This is just a test post of the new WordPress 2.7 admin that was updated today.

So far, while I like most of it, there are a couple of things that are not in intuitive places and I find them rather cumbersome. But I really do like the drag and drop on the dashboard. That is very nice. I also like that the write post page makes use of the whole screen. That is definitely an improvement over WP 2.5.

Things are looking good! I may write a more thorough review later once it’s fully rolled out and I’ve had a chance to use it for a few days.

What do you think of WP 2.7 so far?

~ Annie