I am working on a major update to my site Web Pickups. I have the new home page up but not all modules are working (no content). The new home page will be much cleaner and present some real content instead of my mission statement that has greeted visitors up until this time. I will relegate that to an About Web Pickups page. Anyone that is interested in that sort of thing can go digging for it.

I am also moving the latest additions to a nav box on the left. I have ‘a thought for you’ quotations in a rotator in the box below the latest additions. On the right I have an advertising banner (along with my Google AdSense in the header). Center page has a picture (random rotator) and below that is a random movie.

I will keep my laundry list indexes for the sections, but I will also put the list into a nav box. On the movie pages it will be in a box to the left in my standard layout. On the pictures pages I may put it and the commercial message below the images. I am serving some fairly large images so I don’t want to limit my options as to image size.

The new home page is up on the site if you want to check it out. It will be there until I post the announcement here that it has gone live. You can follow the progress as I add the various rotator targets. I suspect that this layout will work much better than the old one.

I probably have a career opportunity outlined in my website ideas list by now. I started a notepad file to keep track of a few ideas of things that I could or should do with the various sites. I generally open it in the morning as I go through my traffic reports. This is a quiet time when I am focused on the websites. Thinking of the individual sites often brings to mind enhancements for those sites or ideas for other sites. The list tends to get longer faster than I can check off those ideas.

I came here today to try out one of those ideas, but then I remembered that this blog is set up differently than my later blogs. I may get around to using my adaption of a different theme for this one, but I do like the way that this one turned out, so I may just leave it as is. At any rate, I decided that while I was here I may as well ramble on a bit.

I am now celebrating my one year anniversary with my web host HostMonster. I wrote this up in my blog on Selling on your Website. I have made that a clickable link so that you can check it out if you would like.