Starting Thing 25

Alright, I've played around a little bit with the widgets and things are starting to get interesting!

First I went through feedburner.com to set up an RSS feed button, enabling people to subscribe to this blog's feed if they are so inclined. Feedburner had a lot of other options relating to publicity, optimization of content, adding advertisements to your blog and all kinds of other stuff. I didn't really understand a lot of it to be honest, I've never used RSS feeds so I'm going to wait until I'm more comfortable with how all of this operates, then I'll go back and see if any of it means more to me.

I also added a widget called "bitty browser" to the sidebar, which is basically a smaller browser window. The idea is that if I mention a website in one of these posts, someone reading the weblog can type the URL into the bitty browser and check it out without leaving my blog. To be honest I'm not sure how much more useful this is going to be than just opening up a new tab, especially because the little browser is inconvenient for viewing websites meant for a full size browser. But I did want to practice adding applications, and furthermore I think I can embed it into an actual post with a specific URL to illustrate a point, which might be much more useful. So I'll keep it around for now.

And finally, I found a website with a bunch of fun widgets, so I added a little Super Mario Brothers game which is located at the bottom of the page. It loads pretty quick and it looks like the graphics were taken from the Super Mario All Stars SNES game, so that's neat. Please enjoy.

PS the more I look at my avatar the more it freaks me out. I think I might have to get a new one.