When I started this blog a couple weeks ago, I opened a Blogger account and set up a new blog. I soon realized that I had inadvertently landed in the Google beta version of Blogger (Blogspot?), and when I tried following instructions to make changes to my template, the changes described and the menus referenced did not exist.

So I spent a couple days designing my own page layout and set it up in WordPress running on my shared hosting site. That’s what you’re seeing now. It’s still a work in progress, and I’m contemplating adding other features to it, but for now it is what it is.

There’s something very rewarding about designing your own “look and feel” to your blog, and being liberated from the Blogger “hand-holding” site. I still have no readers, but what can I expect – I’m only a couple weeks old, and I haven’t exactly been updating it that much.

I came across this site for increasing your blog readership. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I flagged it in my Diigo list and will get to it one of these days. I have an account on Technorati and ping them every time I add an entry. I noticed they have had some trouble with tags the last few days, but once in awhile I noticed my blog come up when I searched for “biking”, so that’s cool.

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