Well, not exactly digging in the sense of digg.com. But, you know what I mean, right?!?!
On Monday I signed up for an account with MyBlogLog – a great little community site I first heard about from Tony Hung’s How to Market You Blog in 2007 marketing post at ProBlogger. Then I found a post about it on Chris Brown’s Branding and Marketing blog. I dig both of these bloggers, so I checked it out and got an account.
After a few minutes of scanning and joining a few of the communities, I found myself making connections with other bloggers. Albeit, I wasn’t inundated with contact requests – I’m a small fish in the sea, after all.
But I have had a few positive comments on my blog. A couple of people have told me they’ve subscribed to my feed. And I’ve already had an email exchange with another blog owner who found me on MyBlogLog.
As I’m very much interested in meeting and sharing with other bloggers, I am so very excited about MyBlogLog.
Go and get an account. And when you do, look me up. Say ‘hi’ in my comments and add me to your contacts. I’ll do the same for you.
Hey there,
I like the site… the design is awesome! We exchanged contacts /joined communities on MyBlogLog.com…
Figured I would drop in and see what your site is all about… and I am totally impressed. It looks Great!
If this site is a reflection of the work you do for customers then you are definitely someone I would do business with.
– Garry
WordPress is a great program. Out of the box, it is awesome and put into the hands of someone with a little higher level of experience it soars! and screams SEO!
Yes, you had me guessing for a second until I viewed the source files. Hard to believe that this site is WordPress. (Again, not that WordPress is a bad thing… It’s Not!) You did such a great job making this site look unique, that it somewhat stands in its own class.
Blogger.com sites… they typically look like blogger.com sites.
Typepad sites, well… look like Typepad.
WordPress sites, you guessed it, typically look like WordPress sites….
same goes with most CMS systems, as well as message board systems.
Again, there is nothing wrong with any of these programs… they are awesome.
But also too… being unique and creative is great too, and you have designed a theme that totally masks the fact that this is a WordPress site.
You don’t happen to publish a few free samples at Theme Viewer?
Thanks. I hope my site is a reflection of the level of work I do.
The whole thing is driven by WordPress. I had to do quite a bit of hacking to get everything to work as I wanted. Still some small adjustments I want to make – like highlighted top nav bar when in child pages. But I’ll get to that soon.
There’s also a few more features and functions I want to add. But I’m running a business too, so I can’t fiddle all day – well, at least not every day.
Thanks. I fell in love with WordPress about a year ago and have been kneeding and stretching it ever since.
I’m not great with PHP, but I know enough to get around. I find the WordPress Codex to be a great resource. And the forum help is top notch.
I fully understand what you mean. For instance, you can spot a Joomla site almost immediately. Joomla, Mambo, etc – they’re all good. But I think WordPress is superior in ease of customization and definitely in ease of use for the everyday user – which is who I serve.
I’ve been using WordPress as a basic CMS for clients since early last year and have had great results. I’d like to see a few plugins that would make life even easier, but they’re really minor things at this point.
I’m actually working on a few designs I’m going to repackage as a WordPress-driven, predesigned template package for clients who need a basic site. When they’re done (couple of months), I’ll consider offering them at Theme Viewer. Thanks for the idea.