Shake it Up

I guess you can tell I gave a blog a little makeover. Nothing special, just thought it was time for a change. Blogger has SO many new options now. The choices used to be very limited, so I had to do HTML work every time I wanted to customize the blog. One day, a few years ago, I opened my blog and saw that the header was sliced up. Blogger suddenly put a limit on header size. And since I wanted my header to stretch over the posts and the sidebar, I had no choice but shrink the body and the sidebar.
Eventually the programmers at Blogger came to their senses and lifted the limit. I totally forgot about it, since I already fixed up the whole blog to fit the new standards. But now... now the level of customizing is almost unlimited, so I decided to take advantage.

I removed the blog header because now the body of the blog is too wide for it. The photo that's in it is over a year old. And without a photo header, the blog loads faster. Besides, I have dozens of photos on every page of the blog anyway. Maybe one day I'll make a new one.

The tags now show at the bottom of each post. The tags in the sidebar became a list, but I will change it back into a tag cloud soon.

Now for the fun part of the change: you can rate posts with stars! Even if you don't have time to leave a comment or have nothing to say, you can just click a star to rate each post. Fun? I think so! You can vote however you like, since I won't know who clicked 1-star anyway.

And finally, I am now able to post my photos really big. Some readers might like this, others might not. You can always express your opinion in the ratings. LOL

I had these interactive pets in my sidebar for a year or so, and now it's time for them to step down to a post. Hopefully the blog will load a little faster now.