Back in Seattle & tweaking this blog

We're back from our European adventure and getting back into the swing of things back here in the great PNW. Back to old habits, back to this blog. We usually don't get too personal on here because a) we've got plenty to write about the good stuff in the neighborhood and b) lots of gooey things we see from time to time on other blogs makes us, well... cringe (cheap shot - but, please, isn't there anything else to write about than ourselveseses???). Anyhow, onward and upward. We've made some tweaks:

• No more ads -- Google still has some work to do getting relevant advertisers into its content network. And some of the attempts to blanket keyword terms go horribly awry -- the ad above for "Seattle Belltown Condo' actually linked to condo listings for PA. Experiment over -- nobody clicked and we don't want to gum up the experience for no reason. Somebody should start an easy to use, relevance-based promotion system for blogs if there isn't one already. BTW, we're leaving Google's 'paid' site search on because we're too lazy to rip the code out of our template (sounds painful, no?)
  
• Underlining -- Take that all you young designers! We've turned on link underlining because, damnit, that's how the Web is supposed to work. Links should be underlined (though we agree it gets a little crowded on here)
• Recent Posts links on every post -- Many visitors to this blog, especially first-timers, experience this wonder of modern technology without visiting the homepage. Fine by us. To make things easier, we've added links to previous posts at the bottom of each entry page.

That's it. Just a few hours on the ground and we've already changed our mind about advertising, redesigned and phucked around for 2 hours with our template and posted a meandering entry complete with insulting link to a fellow blogger. It's good to be home!

-- k/j

Tags: uptown, seattle, adsensesucks