Bloggiesta- Final Score

(<---)Sadly, it's time to wave Pedro goodbye , which is quite sad, he was a good companion. This was the first time I participated in a challenge and it was seriously awesome. Thanks everyone, for the challenges, the tutorials, and the advice. You all rock! Here is the final score, after 48 hrs of craziness, fun and a bit of drama. To Do List Unveil New Sections:

• Story of My Life -Talk to Kylie and see if she wants to do this together. Which will be posted in a couple of days
  
• About a Book - General BookTalk
• ListManiac - in response to the On Lists and Opinions Challenge (to be posted soon)

Reviews:

• Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita
  
• True Love and Other Disasters by Rachel Gibson
• Vision in White by Nora Robets
• UltraManiac by Wataru Yoshirumi (a.k.a first ever manga review) (To be posted soon)
  
• The Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-U by Meg Cabot
• Update with some Book Gossip

Add:

• Favicon - Thanks for the tip about Trish tutorial @ Hey Lady!
• Add Mr Linky - Signed up for it, anyway.
  
• Cleans sidebars
  
• Maybe Change Layout (Didn't found one I liked better)
  
• Badge from Book Blogs ning

Bloggiesta Challenges:

• Grade Your Blog @Bookish Ruth (I got 70/100, btw, and I added Metatags)
• Blogging Tips & Tutorials @Book Blather
  
• Favicons & Gravatars@Hey Lady!
  
• Blogging Buddy@My Friend Amy (Thanks Kylie from The List Maker's Book Reviews who also happens to be a great friend.)
• On Lists & Opinions@Beth Fish Reads
• Google Alert@Emily's Reading Room
  
• Elevator Pitch@Books, Movies and Chinese Food

Other:

• Brush up Profile
• Back up
• Check Tags

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Changes and (I hope) improvements after Bloggiesta:

Grading System

• Visually so it doesn't take so much of the sidebar
• Grading itself: About 1 Star Rating a.k.a Don't Bother. I do have books that I have liked that little -and sometimes even less - but I don't believe in book bashing - which is why you'll never see me writing about Twilight (the book), Two Way Street or Judith McNaught) - so I decided to eliminate that category. If it rated that low with me, if I couldn't bring myself to finish a book, well, that's my opinion and I'm not going to bother to write a review about it.
  

It gave time to think about new sections and stuff I would like to add to my blog, I don't know if I'll end up unveiling all the sections I listed above, but it has given me something to think about.

Change in size and amount of images, as well as the number of posts per page, to help the page load faster.

Favicon Fear Conquered! - I had tried to add one a number of times but it just never worked and I grew frustrated, but the challenge - and my mostly hidden competitive nature (which is usually hidden by a thick layer of laziness) - made me keep trying until it worked. (That's my favicon, btw, 'cause it shows so small I wanted to show it on a bigger size --->)

Lots of Luv



PS - I'll try to finish my pending reviews within the next week.

PSS - I made an aproximation of how many hours I spent doing this and it came up to: 21 1/2 hrs... which just goes to show me I got no life.

Friday - 9 1/2 hrs (from eight till nine-thirty and then from about four in the afternoon until midnight)

Saturday - 12 hrs (continuing from midnight until 4 am, break for sleep, break for house chores, continuing from noon until ten pm)

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