Live Journal Widget
Sorry, I removed this widget as it needed too much work as every time you make a new post you have to manually update the widget. Also seemed like once I added it I had trouble adding photos to my blog and although I’m not sure that was the reason, I decided not to keep it up. You might notice the little newspaper on the right hand side of this blog. If you click on it you’ll see my blog posts set up in the form of a newspaper. I happened to find it the other day while reading some other blog posts on the Active Rain real estate networking site. I noticed some of the blog posts with fun little additions to their sidebars.
I did a search on "widgets" and found the newspaper thingy. What is it good for? I’m still not sure at this moment. But it was fun seeing my posts set up in newspaper columns. It doesn’t give me any on-page search engine optimization benefits and I really don’t know what to do with it. Supposedly, it allows anyone to print out this blog. I haven’t tried that yet but plan on doing so just to see how it lines up on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Maybe I can use it as a quickie newsletter.
It might actually make for easier reading instead of having to scroll through my latest posts. The only thing I don’t like is that it doesn’t show any of the graphics I use so it’s pretty bland at pure black and white reading. Another negative is that I have to somehow manually update it if I want my newest posts to appear.
More and more fun little widgets are popping up in the blogging and website world so you might find something else new on this blog down the road.
