Update: What have I been up to?

I wanted to go ahead and let my readers know that I’ve closed comments temporarily while I develop more content for the site. Some of the things I’m looking into are as follows:

• creating a working outline of strategies for life, goals, and things along those lines
• eventually writing a book, digging further into some of the items featured in the outline
• vlogging, or video blogging
• figuring out how, exactly, I’d like to use the forums. one idea I’ve seen, to avoid spam, is to keep comments on forums instead of on the blog but … again, I’m looking into that
• something having to do with affirmations – I know exactly what I want, just haven’t tied the potential ends to getting the ball rolling yet
• the idea of only blogging about updates to the site and updates to the outline, where the outline would then be the center piece of this site

Eventually, I’ll have added more content to the site that should benefit us all! Once I do  add new stuff, you’ll hear about it on my blog, of course.

Update: Accomplished

I’ve been messing with the site all day. I’ve been implementing additional features to the site like forums and such that share databases with my wordpress database so users only have to sign in once to use all the features on the site. Though you wont see the forums link up on the site today, it’s there and will be available down the line after the blog matures a bit. If you read my twitter, you’ll understand how fitting the comic is.

One more thing that I’d like to do today is separate the “site news” posts into a separate page so they wont be mixed in with the blog. It seems fitting since they’re not really “blog posts” but just updates to keep readers in the know as to what’s going on on my side.

Update: New Theme And Other Changes

If you have seen the front end of the upthinker blog before, you’ll notice that the theme has since been changed. I did this because someone informed me that the previous theme, while “good enough”, wasn’t quite contained and neat looking. It was also missing a lot of color. So, after lots of searching around, I settled on this theme because it had the happy colors and looked very neat and contained. I did modify the theme a bit though; I made the top image and links all fixed because I think that looks kind of cool and works out better for those who want to skip across different pages on the site.

The homepage for upthinker.com was previously just a bluehost login, and then a placeholder that said “under construction”, so I changed all that to make upthinker.com point you right towards a stagnant wordpress page of mine that states the purpose of the site. On the top right of the homepage, you’ll see that I’ve added a few other pages like Archives, About, and Contact. Those pages are now there but they’re not all complete just yet. I’ll fill these in with information as I go along. One of my concerns is that this site will eventually have more pages than what will be able to fit in the header image. At that point I’ll probably switch to another theme, suppress the unimportant page links in the header, or hack away at the current theme. We’ll see what happens.

Right now I’m still making little adjustments here and there so if you see things move around or disappear, you’ll know why.