Bloggiesta Wrap Up

Bloggiesta was a lot of fun. I wish I had more time, but I ended up having to do errands on Saturday. It was really nice to have an excuse to just work on the blog. I will have lots of commenting to do over the next few days, but it was worth it. 

I was only able to do the one basic challenge, but I have saved the other challenges and I plan to work on them later. The image map challenge is so amazing. I can't wait to try it out for the next Sunday Update.

My To Do List

•  Research web hosts --> Any suggestions??? 

I have researched a few web hosts, and I have narrowed down the list. Now, I need to do some research on the next step of the self-hosting process.

• Write four Thoughtful Thursday posts

This didn't happen. I wish I had more time on Saturday to work on this.

• Write eight Top Ten Tuesday posts

I am so happy that I got eight of these posts done! I really enjoy this meme, but it takes so much time with getting links and pictures. Writing a stack of these at the same time saves so much time.

• Organize sidebar better 
• Maybe move annual challenges to its own page?
• Maybe get rid of the archive and just keep the keywords?
• Have all of my social media buttons uniform (Bloglovin' I am looking at you!) 

I moved some things around on my sidebar. I didn't get rid of anything, but I like the layout a bit better. Also, I updated my social media icons a bit. Bloglovin' matches and I have pop up text for the icons when you hoover over them.

• Update pages
• Explain my rating system
• Update my About Me page
• Begin making a page linking to all reviews
• Create a page with favorite posts

I didn't get to any of this either. I have ideas of what I want to do, and I will slowly be working on this over the next month.

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