After weeks of planning the blog makeover for our Project Blogger apprentices, Michael and Barbara Daly, we are happy to announce that we’re ready to make some waves in this competition. Welcome to Beachamptons blog!
Here are some of the “Blog Staging” changes we made:
A. New Blog name: Beachamptons - Barbara and Michael coined it. (one h)
B. New Blog Theme: Brightside
Old Blog Theme:
New Blog Theme:
We added the following Plugins and Widgets:
- MyBlogLog widget - displays your readers happy faces
- Blog Surfer widget - click on it and get random posts from our archives
- Meebo widget - private live chat with your readers
- Wufoo Custom Contact Us form - (thanks to Jeff Turner for the great find)
- Automattic Sidebar widgets
- Spam karma 2 (it has killed over 100,000 comment spams for us)
- Add meta tags - control your meta tags
- Update .htaccess file
- Change Permissions on files
- Migrate former blog’s content over to Beachamptons
- Deans permalinks migration - we changed the permalink structure to a more friendly url - custom structure we use- /%category%/%postname%/
- Google sitemaps
- Seo title tags - Effectively use your titles
- Simple tags - for the Technorati search engine
- Wordpress Cannonical Url - Redirects requests for a single post to the proper permalink location.
- Getclicky - Web 2.0 Analytics Program
Now that Micheal and Barbara have a brand spanking new look, it’s time to get to work decorating it with great hyper-local content Hamptons’ buyers, sellers and real estate agents will find useful, informative, entertaining and fun. Let the business of blogging begin.Come by and leave a “blog warming gift” over at the new Beachamptons—it’s the nice thing to do.
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Checked it out, great job! The site looks clean, easy to navigate and has fresh content. I also picked up a few pointers for our blog site. Thanks for your continued contributions to the blogging community.
Our pleasure Eric. Anything we can do to help our blogging brethren.
i’m diggin’ it BIGTIME!!!
Ditto on the thanks! The list above is really helpful and I like the new site a lot.
right on michael!
dave - glad you found the links helpful. we find many of them invaluable.
Co-o-ol!
How fun is that!
And to think I was just visiting because I missed the Hamptons….
Now I can check out the work in progress as well as the local happenings.