Suzi’s Blog

With a New Years comes a few small changes to my blog. Here are the changes and why they were changed.

A New Name
Previously this blog was called “The Suzi & Flopsy Blog!” I have no intention of not writing about my dearly departed friend, but I felt now was as good a time as any to change the name and have him mentioned in the tagline. This was probably the most difficult change (emotionally) for me to do.

Paypal Donate removed
Perhaps I’ll add it back in the future but it was listed as “Flopsy’s Food Fund” and I used to put donations towards buying him things mostly, and some towards the upkeep of the website. It’ll return if I can come up with a better description, but it might be better elsewhere anyway.

No more Friends Links
Along the side I used to have links to 4 friends blogs. The thing is, I have more than 4 friends, but I wasn’t going to link to private blogs or social networking pages like Facebook… Unless a lot more friends start personal blogs this might stay on the cutting room floor.

Twitter Updates
Last month I signed up for Twitter. Sometimes I have something to say, but it’s not much or important enough for a full blog post on here – Twitter is ideal for that. And yet, I still want anyone viewing this blog to know I’m still alive… Hence I have added my latest Twitterings to the side of the page.

Considering I haven’t altered my blog much at all in the past few months these added up to quite a few changes that I thought were worth writing about. Future changes might be added to the comments.

As mentioned in a previous post, this blog has had Google Ads running down the side of certain pages. They weren’t huge or distracting, however, I removed them today.

I initially wanted to see how much money I could get back from my website and the answer is “not a lot”, at least, not through that method. I’m not very keen on ads anyway and I really don’t receive the traffic to warrant having them so I’m just not going to bother.

I will keep the donation link available as I do sometimes get a bit of money here and there through it (and a huge thank you to those who have donated in the past!), and I will also keep referral links up as they are worth promoting, but the ads just need to go.

Something made me decide to check my website domain’s unused default email account. I was surprised to see that it had used up 286.77Mb of space. That’s a lot when I’ve never given it out to anyone. So, I decided to log in and actually look at what was taking up so much… Exactly 58,750 unread emails were waiting for me – all unwanted.

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For a while now no one has been able to access my forum – first of all it was coming up with errors, then there was a forbidden access message. Until tonight I’d not really looked into it because I only had a handful of members and even fewer of us ever posted so it wasn’t a top priority. However, I decided it was time I looked into it a little deeper…

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I’ve recently made a few changes to my blog. Firstly, I’ve rearranged the order of how things are shown on the right side panel. I’ve also changed the Archives so you can find old posts using a drop down menu instead of a huge list of months to scroll through.

Most importantly though, I’ve added a way for people to donate money (mentioned in a previous post) and advertisements so I can hopefully get a little something back. I have tried to make both elements as unobtrusive as possible so they are easy to ignore should you wish to, but they are there if you’re interested. The ad’s should become more suitable to my blog the longer they’re there for – please understand that this could take a while.

The next changes I will be making is adding a few more blog categories so topics that aren’t about me don’t go in the Suzi category. I just need to think up some suitable names and then I’m good to go!