The Blog Improvement Challenge - Week Four

You may not have realised it but I'm taking part in the Blog Improvement Project . I haven't been very active about it yet (I thought up some goals but didn't post about them, and I'm working on my ideas for a regular feature) but this week focuses on blogging basics, something I definately need to work on around here.

There are lots of ideas about ways to improve the basic elements of your site, and if you look around you can see that I've started adding in some simple elements to improve this blog. I've added a useable archive, and removed that random tag list. I updated my blog link list, with the blogs I love that I'd forgotten to add. I also added in an easy way to subscribe to Bookgazing's RSS feed, moved the technorati button into a more visible place and added a shiny new stumbleupon button. I checked out my contact information and updated my profile. My blog is staring to sprakle but I still think there's more to do.

I'm debating whether to change the link list to a blog roll, I use my own bloglines account to keep up with these sites but perhaps readers might like to see recent post titles? I'll think on this after reading some of the useful articles suggested at the project blog.

I'm thinking about linking my Twitter feed up to the blog. The thing is I don't tweet every other second so I'm not sure how interesting this would be.

I really need to grab and link up a Beautiful & Fabulous button as this is now my main blog.

Should I add some sort of Digg it widget? I don't use the site myself and I'm not sure how much point there is in having the button.

So the blog improvement continues. I hope you like the changes.