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As the year comes to a close, it’s time to do the wrap-up post.

It’s been good five months for Blogging Bits. Even though I didn’t post remarkably well-researched articles or strive to reach Digg front page thanks to constant hosting issues that I’ve been having, the community response and participation on almost all articles has exceeded my expectations. So, a big thanks to everyone who has put up with, read, and taken part in discussions at Blogging Bits.

Below is some link love followed by what I consider to be the best posts at Blogging Bits in 2007.

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As promised, here are 5 randomly selected articles out of total 31 submitted articles. Thanks everyone.

My StumbleUpon Analysis - A Poor 500% Traffic Increase by Jamie Harrop.

RSS - Everything you ever wanted to know about it by Colin King.

Bloggers Guide to Creating Better Content by Steven Snell.

How To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing by Jacob Cass.

How to Get Back Into Your Blogging Groove by Hopeful Spirit.

And with that, I officially close this scheme.

Don’t worry, I am still intent on giving away more traffic and backlinks to Blogging Bits readers, but I have a slightly different and better way of doing so in mind this time around. So keep your fingers crossed.

You won’t be disappointed. I promise.

In my tireless pursuit of a perfect design, I have done another round of changes to my blog’s design.

I’ve been working on the new design over the past couple of days, and this time I’ve not only changed the color scheme, but also changed the positioning of three main columns.

So what’s new?

A real three column layout

My previous design was stuck in between two and three columns. So I have put everything where it belongs: all three columns standing in their own distinct space.

I’ve placed the content column in the center because I want to put emphasis on the content. In my previous design, the sidebar on the right was rather big and was attracting too much attention.

Is this a right move?

A darker color scheme

Before you speculate that I’ve joined the dark side, no I haven’t. I am still a humble Jedi.

Again, because of the darker background color in the sidebar, and dimmed text over it, the eye naturally lands on the center column. And this is where I want to guide your eyes. Thou shalt do as ye is ordered!

Do you like this design better than previous one? Anything else you want to see changed?

P.S. will anyone be interested in using my previous theme?

Update: Since almost no one liked the darker background color, I’ve changed it to light gray. This is the ease of CSS. I just changed a couple of color properties and viola!

Thanks all for your feedback!

You thought blogging is all fun and money? Well, that’s not quite true.

Instigator blog published an excellent list of not-so-fancy aspects of freelancing, so I thought since blogging, and especially problogging, is a freelance activity, I’ll list the cons of problogging.

Blogging is stressful. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy blogging as much as any other serious blogger, but.. it’s stressful. Since you don’t look very convinced, here are my 5 reasons why it’s so.

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This post was written for Blog Action Day. A day when bloggers from all around the world unite to raise awareness for the environment. My topic for this post is not a conventional environmental issue, but a look at a more destructive trend that’ll destroy our environment as well as our existence.

Astronauts tell us that when they soar far higher than the last layer of earth’s atmosphere, they see the earth as a tiny dot, among countless other dots, that looks as though it would fade into the vastness of the cosmos anytime. Our religious, national, and tribal loyalties look so frivolous when the boundaries and belief systems that separate us lose significance. At the same time, the protection and comfort of our little home seems more important than anything else in the cold and dark cosmos.

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Here we go! After considering a lot of suggestions from a lot of friends, I have completed the second round of changes. This time I am going to stick to this design for very long (hopefully).

Funnily, I started my design as completely nontraditional, and now here I am, back to the basics and good ol’ standard bloggy look. Thankfully, I did learn a thing or two with my experimentation that I’ll be trying out in a couple of days.

Please give your feedback if you feel like it, otherwise, enjoy the shiny new design.

Pelf at The Giving Hands has recently initiated a month-long blogging campaign on matters relating to the environment. The blogging campaign began on Sept 15th and will conclude on Oct 15th, in conjunction with Blog Action Day — a day where bloggers around the world blog about an issue that concerns all of us — the environment.

Throughout the month-long blogging campaign, Pelf has lined up some very interesting articles on a variety of topics and she has also gotten a few guest-bloggers who would be blogging about their personal experiences on going green, or their contribution to the pollution and what they can do about it or whatever environmental issue that catches their fancy.

Some of the environment-related articles that have been published since Sept 15th are as follows:

• 14 ways to create less trash
• 5 reasons not to drink bottled water
• Turn off, tune out, switch off
• How much plastic bags do you use?
• Water, water everywhere

Do you have an environment-related issue you’d like to discuss? Do you have some energy-saving tips (or whatever other tips) you’d like to share?

Visit The Giving Hands today, share your tips, and together we can make the earth a better place to live in.