Not much new to report in the new frontier of blogging on Civatar. I have been tinkering a bit with making an album and made one a few days ago and originally had it on several pages using page breaks. Today I tried to do something different and just made sub menus for the additional pages, but I believe I will go back and use page breaks, as using more than one sub menu under albums is very awkward. Page 2 works well, but page three scrolls off to the side of page 2 instead of defaulting under it. That may be able to be fixed under some other setting, but it isn’t as tidy as the page breaks, but I think sub menus would work well if there is only one other page under the original menu item. But for each of us, it’s a personal preference. I will leave it up for now and change it back later if anyone wants to see how it works with more than one page under a sub menu item.

At this point in my entry, I am just experimenting a bit. I am going to try to add a pic further down on this post after a paragraph or two to see whether or not the pic will show on the activity page. I noticed last time I wrote a blog with pics, I had written a small bit first and then added the pics for the comic and it showed most of the typed entry and one pic. (Bare with me as I insert a pic here and then go on to further explain my full thought)…

My concern lately has been the feed on the front activity page. Once our old Shmoozezone site goes down, I imagine (hope!) that the activity feed will become a lot more active. As we grow it will increase with the added members and posts.

I was wondering, if/when the posts increase will the activity posts shown decrease in size? Over on Shmoozezone when a blog or post is made, they are posted on the front page and they are all the same size, no matter the content. Will that happen here as well? Or will it stay the same as it currently is? Why I am asking is that some members don’t always post a lot of graphics or pics in some of their blogs.

For an example, (hope you don’t mind), Cosmic’s blogs are geared more to thoughts and ideas and words rather than pics. Suzi, when she posts her poems, usually just has the poem. Sometimes she might include a pic or graphic but not always. I guess my concern is that some people’s blogs are going to get “lost” in the more pic/graphic heavy posts in the activity feed and scroll off/down the page and go unnoticed. Right now it’s no big deal as there isn’t much traffic, but when things get busier I can see it happening.

I like all the pics, I like all the graphics, I use them as much as anyone. I was just wondering if say, we got 30 posts one day, would the feed just crunch everything smaller? Is there a way for us to default our posts so that they don’t overshadow other posts? Or a way to have them all the same size, like they are over on our old site, so one can see at a glance what is new? Just curious, and I don’t want anyone to think I am finger pointing or upset by their pics and posts. I enjoy having the big pics on the actual posts themselves, because sometimes they include writing which can be small, and the bigger pic shows more detail.

I was going to post this over on the forum, but heck, I figured the way I ramble I might as well put it into a blog post. And also because, I wanted to test the pic I included as well to see if it showed on the feed or not.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Perhaps it’s no big deal, and I am putting the cart before the horse, and we need to see how things progress as time speeds up.

Have a good day bloggers.

I was encouraged to write blogs to make people think, engage, respond, etc. I’m hoping the first thing this blog does, is make people giggle. It did me, but then, I am a bit warped.

Having a little bit of fun with Dio’s Egg and Nutsy and including all of the somewhat active members on here in a little bit of comic relief.

Am I a team member or what?! (smile, wink, wink)

(PS… Dio don’t kill me!)

(a cross post from our old Shmooze site)

Well here we are…day 5 of the New Year. So far, nothing earth shattering, which is a good thing. But then again, nothing exciting either. I’ve been thinking, considering, planning a bunch of different things and yet none of them have really gotten much of a lift off into something productive.

I could repost old blogs, previous things just to fill the void of tedious monotony but it does nothing to contribute to a new year, a new blog, new me ideology,  etc, etc.

It’s the unknown of what’s to come, what will be, how things will pan out. For the year, for this old site, for the new site. Who knows?

It’s quiet here, it’s quiet there, it’s a silence filled with time, just waiting for each of us. Some are busy, some are under the weather, some are unsure, some are quietly dealing with things that life keeps throwing at them.

My mind pokes and prods so many ideas. It travels and wanders into ideas and thoughts of silliness mingled with seriousness. One I view as funny, may not be perceived as others in the same way. I could talk about politics, religion, the current state of affairs, but when one ventures into those areas it really becomes rather mute. Too many times, those kind of blogs, come off as preachy, judgmental, and if you don’t think like I think, you will be labeled.

Label me lazy. Label me tired. Label me goofy, nerdy, amused, annoyed, and whatever else it is you want to label me. If it makes it easier for you. It’s a lot easier to try and pigeonhole someone than it is to look at something thru their viewpoint.

I thought about doing a blog over on the other site… but I still am on the fence about it. I came up with an idea. Something I think is funny. It may not go over so well with some, it might even annoy some. I’ll think on it some more on whether to post it or not.

I’d like to think in the New Year I might think more, do more, and work on those things like patience, compassion, character building stuff… yeah, or I might just continue to be me. Who knows which way the wind will blow.

So Happy New Year, Happy blogging, happy thoughts…be happy…. and don’t beat yourself up on those days that it’s hard to achieve. We’ve all been there in the past.

I might have to start early practicing on that napping. (Hopefully by the new year, I will be more inspired on my blogging as well!)

First page, first blog, first writer’s block. All the firsts that go with something new and different and unfamiliar. I should be use to this now, this constant state of confusion and uncertainty. But jumping in with both feet, getting them wet, and hoping it’s not going to require a life preserver.

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