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Trying to find the right look for this site

I hate “under Construction” messages or icons, but since I’ve been upgrading this site and trying to find the best theme for it I thought it was time to say something.

I’m sure a few of my visitors have seen a few theme changes on their visits. I haven’t settled on which one to use yet as none of them function quite like I want them too so I need to modify them quite a bit.

I think I’ll use the theme that’s up now, but it needs a punch of color to make it more exciting. At least I think it does.

What do you think?

My new Partnership with The Find

by Tricia

I just added a new feature to this site. Do you see that shopping link in the top right hand corner of the page? Well, that will take you to my shopping page.

I’ve partnered with The Find. They contacted me, oh … at least two months ago, asking if I wanted to partner with them and offer some great shopping deals to my site visitors. I was interested from the start, but the opportunity came up at a very busy time for me and I was slow to get the ball rolling. In the meantime, the great people at The Find made it easier for me to get my sites listed and once that happened. I started the process last week, and earlier today I was told that all my sites were accepted.

The company made it easy to add shopping listings. You can visit the Shopping page of my site to see a selection of items or use the search at the top of that page to look for virtually anything you might want to buy. I’ve also added a shopping widget to my sidebar to catch your eye.

Now for the really cool stuff. I can add shopping links directly into my posts. I’m actually going to experiment here in this post so bear with me. For example if I were talking about the clothing a particular celebrity was wearing – say a pair of beautiful pumps, all I have to do is add a special link to the word and a search link for that product will be created.

I can even link in such a way that it will automatically add an image to my post and search link, or at least I hope it will. Remember I’m experimenting in this post. Say I was talking about pumps again, but wanted and image added I just have to add the word title in the special link. Easy – I hope! (ok well that didn’t work, but I’ll get it to work, I hope, as that will certainly add to my posts.)

I think I can create shopping links in a little more direct way by searching for specific products too.

Some of the new sites I’m working on will be very shopping oriented. Heck one site is called Shopping Maniac and the other is Home and Garden Diva. I’m sure my new partnership with The Find will come in quite handy when I reveal those sites and partner them with The Find. I mean, when I’m talking about a product I love to be able to show my readers and image. Whether you click on the link and buy the product is your choice, but the addition of the image and an easy linking system will be great for me – and I hope for you too.

MocoSpace a mobile phone social network site

by Tricia

I’ve just been visiting a cool site called MocoSpace. It’s basically a free mobile phone community where you can meet others and pass the time using the various features such as Free chat, pics, videos. Sound interesting?

Almost all mobile phones come with internet abilities these days and this site has been created specifically with mobile phone users in mind.

I was just thinking that this site might be great for those who don’t have internet access at work (on their breaks of course), or who don’t have a computer at home. I know that when I’m working sometimes I do long night shifts at the hospital. Most of my fellow nurses sleep on their long break, but I don’t. Something like MocoSpace would be a great way to pass the time.

Just like any other internet based social network MocoSpace operates 24/7 and has members from all around the world. Sign up and get your own message box and mobile email.

You can use the service to chat with others in public and private chat rooms or create your own personal chat room. You can also share and download photos, videos, and wallpapers, or use the site to create blog posts, talk in discussion forums.

Check it out – it’s totally free.

A brand new Celebrity Blog

by Tricia

If you can’t get enough Celebrity news you’ll be pleased to know that a new Celebrity Gossip blog is on the scene, and from the looks of the way it’s set up I think you’ll be bookmarking this site and visiting it regularly. On this new blog you’ll find not only all the latest celebrity gossip but general entertainment gossip, hip hop gossip and black celebrity gossip.

When you first visit the site you’ll find a selection of the hottest celebrity stories. Below each of the hot celebrity stories you’ll find links to related stories on the web.

If you register to become a member of Celebrity Gossip you’ll be able to rate each post on a scale from one to ten. You’ll also need to login in order to comment on any of the posts.

There are two other tabs at the top of the page that you can visit. One of the tabs will take you to the latest celebrity related stories. The other tab is marked Celebrities. You can search through the Celebrity section according to the alphabet in order to find every story about a particular star that’s been written on the Celebrity Gossip Blog.

The posts on the site haven’t been written by the site owner. They are composed of aggregated content from a selection of Celebrity blogs. The site is updated every five minutes in order to grab all the latest gossip from gossip blogs, gossip magazines, and and gossip websites. Content from sites such as MSNBC, Star Pulse, Perez Hilton, We Love Celebs, Celebitchy, ETOnline and many more make up the posts that you’ll find on Celebrity Gossip. Each post on the site is attributed to the original site that wrote the article.

Becoming a member of Celebrity Gossip not only allows you to comment and rate posts, but you’ll also earn points by participating. Just for registering for the site you’ll get 100 Bonus points. Commenting and rating posts is just one way that members can earn more bonus points, another way is to invite friends to join the community. When you’ve built up enough points you can use your points to get a free magazine subscription. There are 20 popular magazines to choose from at this time.

I do like that Celebrity Gossip rewards it’s members for their participation, and I think it’s a good way to motivate people to participate on the site.

Overall I do like this site. It certainly makes it easy to keep up with gossip and all the news about your favorite celebrities.

Backgammon Masters mascot Jean Claude is back!

by Tricia

Backgammon Masters has had an ongoing promotional campaign and they just released the second installment of the animation series “Life According to Jean-Claude”. I love this feisty tigers French accent.

Jean Claude is more than a little confused about historic battles – such as where the battle of Barbarossa was fought, but he knows that being persistent is what it takes to win any battle or competition.

This is why Jean Claude makes a great Mascot for BackGammonMasters, creators of the ever popular online backgammon game. Jean Claude is very knowledgeable about backgammon strategies and philosophies. He’s also a self proclaimed guru on all subjects.

Backgammon masters has been very successful using Jean Claude as their mascot. So successful in fact, that in the first animation series starting Jean Claude, Backgammonmasters ended up making the series interactive and offered prizes for those who answered trivia questions about the video clip correctly. I’m sure this new installment has been eagerly anticipated.

BackGammonMasters now offers an all in one game package that you can download. The package includes backgammon, poker and the popular Spanish dice game Perudo. They should also have a Blackjack game coming out sometime in May.

Go to the site and watch Jean Claude. He’s actually quite the cool cat. Then, if you enjoy playing backgammon, poker, and want to try Perudo download the games from Backgammonmasters.

Trying to find the right look for this site

My new Partnership with The Find

A brand new Celebrity Blog

Backgammon Masters mascot Jean Claude is back!

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