I've posted here about my fondness for personal web pages, and about Babble. When I found the game, it didn't take long for me to upgrade to the Pro version, and I've been Babbling ever since. About 3 days into the game, I decided to collect all of the resources and links I could find for the game into a central location on a personal page for easy access. That worked great, then I decided to see if other players liked the idea. I sent an e mail to the owner of the Babble site, who responded that if I could put my page online, I could post a link to it in the Babble messages site. Great. Now what do I do? I don't have a personal website online. A quick Google search and some reading led me to a free web host, and voila! My new Babble page has a home online: My Babble Resource page. I put information about my page into my Babble profile, and other players began asking about it. Then they looked at the online page, and several of them have asked me to create similar pages for them. Thus far, I've delivered two, with several more on my to-do list. It's a good way to have fun, support the site in my own way, and continue developing my coding skills. I'm even going to be making my own templates from scratch. Who knows? I may even submit one or more of my own to OSWD. Stranger things have happened...

I have a special message for someone very dear to my heart: Happy Birthday, Dylan! You are a joy and a delight.

Cool Site: Suprglu. The idea behind Suprglu is to bring together in one place (more centralization, anyone?) rss/atom feeds from across the internet. Users can also add hypertext links of their own, and yes, change templates and edit css. I spent about ten to 15 minutes setting up my account, and when I'd finished entering my feeds and uploading my html, I was very happy with this service whose time is definitely now.

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I have used personal web pages for a while now, and I don't know how I ever survived without them. I currently have several sets for different purposes. I enjoy the process of creating the pages almost more than I enjoy using them, and I've even changed templates for some of my sets. Of course, creating and editing the pages requires knowledge of html.

If you've wanted to have a personal web page of your own but do not know how to write html or don't care to take the time to do it, all is not lost. Check out ProtoPage. This free service is based in London. With ProtoPage, you:

• Can create a personal page using a "modular", point-and-click approach.
• Can include localized content, such as for news and weather.
  
• Need not register to create a page, but any page(s)created without registration expire within 48 hours.
  
• Can choose colors for the background and panels, even add your own photos and backgrounds by uploading them to the web first.
  
• Can have a handy bookmarklet available to make it easy to add links to your page.
  
• Can add multiple panels, sticky notes (good for "to-do" lists and reminders), news and blog feeds, local weather and even an e mail panel.
• Can set the page(s) to open as home pages in your browser. (The service is best used with Firefox.)
  
• Can dock panels at the top of the screen to save space and still allow quick access.
  
• Can have several pages, and
• Can choose to make pages public or keep them private.

You can also contact the owners of the site to make suggestions about features you would like to see added.

I do not plan to discontinue using self-created personal pages by any means because of the greater flexibility they afford, but ProtoPage is a nice addition to "my" pages.

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for Valentine's Day, my move to this new template is just about complete. I still have some minor tweaking to do and a couple of items to put in place, but the biggest portion of it is finished. It really does feel like a breath of fresh air.

I did enjoy the old template, but the black was depressing after awhile. I've done some major housecleaning along the way as well, by removing much of the old sidebar content, because it was superfluous and really didn't belong in a blog. When I first began tinkering with Blogger templates, my blog was a major resource that I used as a springboard to all sorts of sites and content on the internet. Now, however, I use a set of personal pages for the vast majority of the former sidebar content. The end result, I believe, is a fresher, faster loading and cleaner blog.

I am glad I've learned to edit the template on Blogger, because it has helped me tremendously when I've been putting together my personal webpages. But the rest of the world (or the five readers of this blog) could probably not care less about which software I use or some of the links I use daily. Well, onward to better things. I am looking forward to spending more time here, and I will probably change the templates for my other blogs when time permits. You may now safely remove your hard hats...just don't peek too closely into the closets yet.

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For the moment, this is a site still under remodeling, so be sure to watch out for falling hypertext code. I have been wanting to brighten up the place for a while now, and I finally decided to "just do it." I wanted to use red and white as my color theme, but my eyes rebelled, so I've settled on this "peachy" scheme instead. I still have a lot of work to do to get the template finished, but I think it's a good start. I used the PsycHo template generator to create the theme, and it was surprisingly easy. And it will be very easy to edit or change as need or desire arises.

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