I spent much of the first day of 2010 tweaking css coding, trying to get my website into shape (I fully expect my own attempts at getting into shape will fail, so I’ll have to make do with my website.) Since bringing my site back after I…well, murdered it accidentally, I really never had a good picture of what I wanted it to be. At the time I was reading so many book blogs, that I felt this would be a great direction to go into, but I couldn’t get away from my personal blogging (ahem *babbling*) and felt the entire site was just a mishmash, and had no center.

Today I started breaking it apart. I was planning to perhaps made one book blog, and one personal, and I had already made a photoblog, when I had a thought: I have enough trouble keeping one blog going…three? really? Crazy much?

I happened upon, quite randomly, a plugin for Wordpress called Blog-in-Blog which has become a real lifesaver. It allows me post things from certain categories straight onto a wordpress “page” not the main /blog, so that when readers come they will mostly see my book related posts (from this point on) as soon as they get there. If they want to read about silly adventures my Day2Day Blog is available from the menu. Basically, things are more grouped, and you can pick what type of content you would like to read about, so it’s less of a mixed bag. I made sure you put the tag cloud wordpress tag back in, so one can use that to navigate as well. I’m pretty sure everything I post, in any category will be cross-posted to Livejournal per usual.

I changed the blog name to MELIScellaneous Reader since the first blog items available when you visit will be the Book-ish Content. I found this free template online that I tweaked color-wise and wordpress tag-wise. I made this background forever ago (using PaintShop Pro 7.0!) for myspace, but I have always loved how it looked, so I thought I’d get some more use out of it here. The whole site just feels more calm, less cluttered, and more me (except I am not calm, and AM very cluttered haha.) but color wise, it’s girlie without making me want to drown myself in pink glitter.

I also started Project 356 today, where you post one picture everyday for a year. I’ll mostly be uploading the pictures straight from my iphone using the Flickit ap. I can even blog them here from my phone directly. I’m trying very hard to streamline my web content, and how I produce it. I have the wordpress ap for my phone but…I don’t think I’ll want to be typing long posts on my iphone)

My goals for the site in 2010 are:

-More Content in general
-More Book Reviews, and have them be more detailed
-Less typing errors (*coughs* Typos and I are very close friends)
-Update Project 365 daily
-Transfer the Quote Page from LJ to Wordpress
-May Transfer my Education Blog to this wordpress account as well
-Get my blog out there more, often times I’m just talking to myself LOL