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<\/p>\nBoy, I’m having the toughest of time figuring out how to redesign\/layout my blog.<\/p>\n
I’ve been toying with a number of ideas over the last few months and still haven’t found anything that I really like.<\/p>\n
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I keep leaning towards something like a magazine layout where the page is layed out more online magazine\/newspaper style (something like the Mimbo theme<\/a>) but I’m realizing that with 4000+ posts on my blog (with many of them posted under numerous categories) it’s going to be hard to get everything looking right.<\/p>\n I think a magazine style blog goes well with the Kingdom Journalist title I’ve borrowed and adopted from Steve Knight<\/a> — but I’m still working through how that might look on a blog.<\/p>\n I’ve also looked at some fun ones like Vintage and Blues<\/a> from Smashing Magazine but I quickly realized I’d need to do a lot of customization on my individual posts to get them to show up right. They’re both still on the drawing board though and I go back to them from time to time and piddle with them as well.<\/p>\n I’ve also thought about bringing the something beautiful theme<\/a> over to my blog as well. But the way its been setup (before I added a few tweeks to it this weekend) was it only shows the two latest posts on the front page. That’s fine – except some days I tend to write numerous posts.<\/p>\n And to top it all off, I’m still thinking through what all I want this blog to be. Should this blog be an aggregator of all things Jonathan Blundell (think Facebook News Feed or Friendfeed<\/a> – or the My Life in RSS feed<\/a>). <\/p>\n Those closest to me say they really want more “reflective” posts where I talk about me, what I’m doing, what I’ve been up to etc. They’re not typically big fans of the “faith” or “political” or “I like this video” posts.<\/p>\n I guess to me I write those posts, because they’re a reflection of who I am. That’s part of who I am. But don’t worry, I see their (your) point as well.<\/p>\n Perhaps rather than trying to share videos, links and the like on my blog – I can just relegate those to the sites I share them on in the first place – like delicious, Google Reader, YouTube, Vimeo and the like – or just let everyone who wants to see these random things subscribe to my FriendFeed<\/a>?<\/p>\n So, many questions, many ideas – just not one particular one really standing out to me.<\/p>\n What say you?<\/p>\n Oh, and by the way… I purchased jdblundell.com<\/a> with some Boy, I’m having the toughest of time figuring out how to redesign\/layout my blog. I’ve been toying with a number of ideas over the last few months and still haven’t found anything that I really like. I keep leaning towards something like a magazine layout where the page is layed out more online magazine\/newspaper style … Continue reading My blog layout\/design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[949,4658,1914,619],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-blog","tag-design","tag-friendfeed","tag-layout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-18q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"vintage\"](\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/vintage-300x225.jpg\" "\\"vintage\\"")
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<\/p>\nbirthday money<\/del> money from a bit of freelance work. So that might be another option for future use. Currently it’ll point you to this blog – but in the future I may decide on some other use for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"