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Page Updates

One thing I didn’t think about doing during the blog shutdown was re-adding a page that used to be here. Join DALANEL! is back up. This is your chance to join me on the site Just take a look at the page for all of the sexy details. I took it down because I gave up adding a few bloggers here. But, I’ll leave it up; I think as this blog gets bigger, somebody will eventually want some of this.

However, there’s a couple of changes to pages. Blog Network actually has entirely new content; content that was a post here on DALANEL. “A New DALANEL Goal: Be Part of A Blog Network” is the name of the post. I put all of that information in Blog Network.

Meanwhile, I took all of the content that used to be in Blog Network and just added it to the Writing Career page. It seemed to make a little more sense.

Lastly, I promised a video on my Accept Jesus page but I didn’t anticipate YouTube giving me so much grief. I can tell you that it is up so go ahead and check out the video.

I’ll still be making minor tweaks in the background in the upcoming days. Thanks for hanging in there and keep the feedback coming via comment and/or poll.

New DALANEL Features…The New DALANEL Part Two

And here we go with the second update on the new look.

First, for Daily Good Stuff. I have added two ne features: Interesting Fact of the Day. And, Today’s Holiday. I’m still working on a third feature.

Next is a new weekly feature that almost because the third new DGS feature. Wednesday Word is where I find a short sermon vis video and post it here. And then, I add my own commentary. It should be fun. And, again, that will be on Wednesday.

DGS is still out for the week as I seek out that new feature. I also won’t start the Wednesday word until next week. In the meantime, I still have tweaks to deal with; mostly behind the scenes stuff.

Go to DALANEL Polls and vote! Yeesh. I’m really interested in what you guys think of this site. There’s a poll asking how you like the new layout.

DALANEL Going Offline 11/04/13

Like I said, things are changing. I’m going to be experimenting with things. For those of you that are regulars, you already have noticed a couple of things. From 1-4 am EST, I will take down DALANEL and make my final changes, including a possible site theme.

Pages will be changed to better reflect me. One example of the changes is a lot less talking about me and more about the site itself. This blog is named after me and represents me but, some things don’t have to be said.

I probably won’t need the full three hours to make all of the changes but, I want to make sure I have enough time so I don’t rush anything. If I’m done before 4am, I will republish the site.

I want to thank you for your support as I continue to try to make this a better blog. Of course, this goes appearance-wise. I’m looking intently to adding one or two new features to Daily Good Stuff and of course my blogging style is going to slowly change during the month. I might even have a new weekly featured post. The fact that I won’t be doing a lot of personal posts means you won’t really notice the change in my writing style until December, where things really get interesting with the cantata and thoughts on 2014 and more.

How long will these changes be in effect? I don’t know; but I’m hoping for a long time, unless a better theme comes along or something. But, since the blog’s direction is still the same, major changes shouldn’t be made. Once the site is back on, I’ll a guide for dealing with the changes. For instance, names of a couple of pages will be changed. I’ll let you know what it used to be called so you’ll know where to go for whatever. I hope you’re excited about the future as I am.

-DALANEL

No Daily Good Stuff This Week; Other Featured Posts Still Active

173356By now, a DGS would be up and ready to go. However, I am in the middle of shutting the blog down and I am transforming DGS. I will be adding two features to it. I’m working on finding a third one but this third one may end up being a new weekly feature. Anyway, the two I definitely am adding on are a little on the informative side. I won’t tell they are yet.

A post will be up later telling you the time in which this blog will be offline. It’ll be in the middle of the night so it’s shouldn’t be much of a problem. After I come back, the site will look different. Again, nothing drastic will change but, you will see it. You’ve already seen some of it.

So, DGS may be out. But, Dante’s Opinion and today’s Weekly Funnies and Weekly News will still appear. Also, I mentioned at the beginning of the month that everyday I would have a list for you. That’s still gonna happen. So yeah, the only thing is no DGS. Stats show that the most viewed posts of all time…in a top ten, DGS shows up five times (rank 2-6), with Weekly Funnies 6 being the most viewed. I know you like this stuff so it’s not going away permanently.

Like I said, bare with me as DALANEL attempts to grow. It’ll all work out when I return.

So cheer up!

-DALANEL

A New DALANEL Goal: Be A Part of A Blogging Network

I have finally called it. I was thinking about this for quite some time but I think this blog and I are ready. I’m putting it out there: I think DALANEL can be a part of a blog network. I would love to join other bloggers to make this happen.

So, let’s talk about how this would happen.

For one, each blog in the network will have a specialty/genre. One blog will be about sports. Another is a blog that follows a lot of the entertainment industry. One will have beauty tips. One will be about financial stuff. You see where I’m going? All of these blogs would be under one umbrella; and don’t worry, it’s not called the “DALANEL Network”. We’re an equal team. I of course would handle the “good news” part of the network and perhaps even spiritual.

Are you interested?

Well, each blog will retain their work and such. It’s a support system really. We’ll all link each other and do collaborative pieces. But we’ll all be under that umbrella and we’ll be a blogging family. On a technical scale, perhaps create a main page for the network and all the feeds from the blogs all show up there. I think this could really be fun. It’ll produce more exposure for our blogs and perhaps even crate friendships.

Requirements? Well, the blog obviously has to be active. Hey, we have lives outside of the blog. I just don’t want to see too many weeks go by with no content. Also, I guess blog performance doesn’t really matter. I can understand if a powerful blog would kinda stay away from a weak blog. And I really don’t want things to be: the better the blog, the more ownership of the network. Everybody has an equal say. If we, as a network decide we want to do something, we put in a vote. Perhaps there should be some universal guidelines for the network.

One cool feature could be each week/month/quarter we run a newsletter type thing or a latest posts from the various blogs. We post that on the main page as I mentioned earlier. So that’s a collaborative thing right there. We’ll talk; I’m just brainstorming.

On a financial basis, as I said before, each blog would be run by their owners. If you have ads on your blog, great. I can’t say DALANEL is going down that road though (WordPress does put ads on sites. This is not me, that’s them). I would imagine, in that case, there would be no revenue sharing or anything like that.

Again, we’re just a team of bloggers uniting to bring quality content to your screen. That’s the goal of this network.

If you like this idea or if you want DALANEL to join your already existing network, let me know and we’ll iron out the details. I am really excited about this idea. I want DALANEL to be a part of a family.

-DALANEL

Quick DALANEL updates

I just run a couple of things by ya. For one thing, WordPress has finally added Google+ to publicize so my DALANEL posts will show up there. I’ve been there since close to the beginning of the social media site but I prefer using the convenience of publicize to automatically link my post there instead of having to copy paste multiple times. So, you can truly follow DALANEL now on Google+. My following there is small but hopefully it starts to grow now.

My computer is to the point where it can no longer play videos. Despite having the most recent flash, it still takes 10 minutes to play a 3 minute video. No thanks. Because of this, until my situation improves, there will be no more videos on Daily Good Stuff.

Lastly, I’m going to upload a video soon describing DALANEL. It will be on the “What Is DALANEL” page.

Just some small behind the scenes stuff. Keep it here at DALANEL and follow the blog/me.

-DALANEL