Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2011

Free Cute Welcome Signs for Your Blog - Okay for Both Girls and Guys

A personal blog must be always personalized. One best way to make it happen is to add a few widgets to it. This will help you make the readers feel at home and at the same time entertained. Now nothing makes it work better than cute or rough and tough welcome sign. Good news is that you really do not need to sit down to make it yourself, for now we have widgetmania, a site that offers free cute welcome signs for bloggers and that is also in animated version. Do check it out to pick one sign for your blog. But for now, here is the sneak preview of the site. The link to it is provided at the end.
Do not take these signs at face value. All of them actually have animated welcome bubbles. Moreover, they do not just say, "welcome to my blog", but also other things. Clicking one of examples will reveal it. In addition, it will unlock the codes that you will need in order to paste it to your blog. See examples below:


Now these are not ordinary banner welcome signs. They actually stay on the left or right hand corner of your blog to greet your blog visitors. This is a sample taken from widgetmania.

Aren't they all cute? They do not even give a cluttered look the blog page. So do visit the site to get one sign for yourself. Remember all of them are free. And now here is the site's address: Widget Mania.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Question of Subject

If this is a cancer blog, and moreover, a breast cancer blog, then it should be about breast cancer, should it not? But if it is a blog that reflects what it's like to have (and have had) breast cancer, and when your treatment boils down to taking a pill every night, and when you're not thinking about breast cancer 100 percent of your waking and dreaming hours, then does your blog need to be 100 percent about breast cancer? (It's not, has never been.) Do people come to a breast cancer blog expecting to read about Life With Cancer, and grow disappointed learning about Life With a New/Old House? Or is that the message itself: That after breast cancer, there's room for everything else in your life?

But you never forget it entirely. There's that missing breast on the left, for one, and the hair that's shorter than it was two years ago, and there are people who ask, How are you? and then, How ARE you? with that emphasis, that heaviness, as if trying to pry out a secret.

In the news conference I went to for Stand Up 2 Cancer, Elizabeth Edwards said that she felt something in common with anyone who's had cancer. And that's true. I feel the same--that we've gone to that place that used to mean (and still might mean) Death. And we've gone through the same baffling, often impersonal procedures at hospitals. (By talking to one another, we're reasserting our individualities.) Before I had breast cancer, I felt that everyone who had it was going to die before her time. Though rationally, I knew that wasn't necessarily so. I remember hearing about someone who had breast cancer and then seeing her, healthy-seeming, and wondering why there was no sign. Thinking she was faking it--it being her health.
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