Happysteps.net: Moving forward

Celebrating a blog’s birthday can be a similar experience to your own birthday. It brings the blogger to moments of pondering about where her blog is heading to, particularly with how to improve and make it better.

For instance, I have so many plans for happysteps.net and here are just few of them:

– Change my blog template. (This is an immediate need for me, especially as I look at my blog everyday and seeing a lot of space eaten up by the header image. But I am also here in Europe on a vacation so I had to make the most of my time here, right? I still want to visit some museums and galleries here in Prague. The new template will be given attention when I’ll be home next month.)
– Add an Entrecard top dropper list (this should have dofollow links) in the sidebar.
– Organize my categories (yeah, it’s a mess!).
– Add a favicon!
– Add a gallery page.
– Add an Entrecard list page (featuring my faves – organized according to fast loading sites, quality content, reciprocal droppers, EC widget above fold, blogs with top dropper lists, blogs featuring their advertisers, etc.)
– Register in more blog directories
…and so much more! 🙂

Another major plan for this blog is to transfer the domain and hosting to another provider. Thankfully, I have a techie bro to help me out with this. And while I enjoy blogging, I sometimes entertain the idea of going into reseller hosting and other web hosting ventures. This usually comes to mind whenever I visit some sites about web hosting. There are many providers offering many types of hosting packages for the varied needs of their web clients. For instance, there are three plans for standard hosting (they differ mainly in bandwidth, storage and cost) as offered by Canadian Web Hosting. Site visitors can browse over the details about the hosting service they choose and visit the FAQs section to learn more. There are also some flash video tutorials to help the newbies in accessing their accounts and other video guides in using WordPress, OsCommerce, PayPal, Dreamweaver MX and other web tools. They also provide virtual private servers, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting among others.

Anyway, when I think about improving my blog, I realize there’s still so much work to do. As they say, a website is always a work in progress, it is constantly undergoing construction. You find a theme for your blog, you tweak it a bit, put some widgets and all, but your site design doesn’t stop there. You always keep on developing your site especially when you learn about the latest upgrades, cool widgets, plug-ins, graphics and any web object you feel has to be added to your site. How about you, what are your plans for sprucing up your blog?  🙂