After experimenting with several themes for workingmenshealthandfitness.com I finally settled on one and started to customize it for our needs. Although I didn’t notice it at first, I soon realized that none of my formatting was taking – I had made some text bold and some other text italicized and after saving the changes I went to check things in the browser and it was all plain text. Not good!  

So I fiddled around with it for a day and finally gave up and went searching for another theme. Tonight I found something similar and perhaps a little better. The new theme is a little cleaner and has a few more options than the other one. Perhaps things do happen for a reason and tonight I lucked into a better theme than I planned to use. 

I put up my 2nd post tonight thinking it would be a quick and easy one to bang out – just a little blurb about using music to lift up or calm you down. It started out simple, and more than an hour later I was still adding and editing things. The post was less than 500 words, but I wanted to add links in the text where ever possible, and making those links takes time, even with WordPress helping.

Linking in text is something I have a big bug-a-boo about. It seems like the original genius of the internet was linking to things easily, but very often you can read large chunks of text and never encounter a link, even if they would be logical and helpful. I know there is an argument that you don’t want to create links and have people leave your content, but I have to hope that if your content is good enough, people will read it and come back for more. If your content stinks they will likely leave no matter what. Hopefully if I provide value in my content people will get something out of it. 

So it’s getting late again and I’m starting to misspell too many words and I’m having a hard time stringing too many thoughts together, so it’s time to wrap things up. Tomorrow I have a big battle waiting trying to figure out how to add facebook like buttons to my posts – along with twitter and google + buttons so readers can share posts they like with their followers.