Kellogg's Korner

Over the past few weeks I have made changes to the site. I have removed a lot of things, to include the forums and some sidebar widgets. I have also added some new functions, such as Serial listings. If a post is part of a sires they will have links to other post in the series included near the Related links.

I have also removed all most of the old cartoons which were not drawn by me or my family. I did this to make room for my new venture in comics. While reading some new webcomics I cam across B.I.B.L.E.. This is an interesting comic based on the mythology in the bible. After reading it for a while I decided that I might do something similar with Kelloggeskorner.com. I am going to work on an in-depth study of the bible, looking at Open translations of the original texts, mainly through netBible, and develop comic stylings of the historic and spiritual content of the bible.

I have also installed IntenseDebate comments plugin. This plugin allows for commenters and users to interact with more in-depth conversations. It will also allow you to rate comments and commenters. With the plugin I have also included the ability to tweet you comments. I am hoping that this will drive up the traffic to kelloggskorner.com.

We are also moving to a more Christian feel to the site. With that in mind, we have added a Prayer Request page. This page will be highly monitored and moderated to encourage a positive atmosphere for those posting requests.

Many things have changed here functionality wise. We hope to keep the content of the site similar to what we have had before. I will continue to post my political and religious rants, as well as try to diversify into more useful things. I will be trying to include more IT related articles, as well as some development on WordPress Plugins which I am now working on in some of my free time.

Things have come a long way since Kelloggskorner.com was started. I look forward to many new thing to come in the future.

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I have made a few more changes to the site, as you may see. I have removed all the Ad space simple due to the fact it is not selling and looks bad with all the “Your Ad Here” spots on the site. I might re activate the ad space if we get our visitors up to a respectable number. I don’t see that happening until I get off my ass and work on getting the comic up and running the way I have been talking about for six months now.

I also added the ability to make some posts and pages only available to registered members or other groups that I make on this site, such as family only sections. I have not made any sections like this, but I now can. I thought about adding the LockPress plug-in to make pay-per-view content, but I will hold back on that until we have a larger reader base also.

I have finally come to a solid choice on the comic concept and will be working on getting something here… some day… not soon with how I have been working on it. I have largely cut down on my political banter and ranting. You really don’t know how hard it is not to rant about what is going on with our nation, but I have held my tongue for the most part.

I have also been neglecting my promise to make more Christian and church style posts. I am sorry for this, but I have had a lot going on over the past few weeks that has cut into that. I have added a plug-in that will automatically link biblical references to a web bible, so that when I do start posting more the links will be there for you.

I will soon be sending out an invitation to all my family and friends that may not know about our site yet. I hope many of them will come and visit and register for the family forums and such. It might also bring some more authors into our folds so that you can read more than just my thoughts on things.

There is much more to come as I build up the site, I am looking at moving the site to a better server with more space so that I can add a photo gallery, but that is in the future, well after we get our viewer up and some sort of income from the site to support it.

Stay toned for more banter and ranting from me, ad the some-day-to-come comic here are www.kelloggskorner.com

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I am sorry about all the twitter posts on Monday. I was working on redesigning the site to be more readable after upgrading to Comicpress 2.8. There are a lot more built in features to customizing the look of the site. I feel the site has an improved look and feel, even though all the information and blocks are in the same location.

With the slightly modified layout I moved the Banner Ads to a more pleasing location which better uses the space on the site. I also added a new group of Ad buttons at the top of the page. The two main ads will only display on the comic pages now, while the button ads will display on every page. All ads still start at $0.01 bidding through Project Wonderful.

I reorganized the Comics into two new groups which can be seen individually through the story line link in the menu below Comics. When I start posting comics by us they will appear as separate story lines under the same location. I am sorry for postponing the comic’s start for so long, we just have so much going on right now, with looking into a move soon and Teresa and the girls relocating up here this summer.

Under the Forums, I have added new topics, Family Focus and Bible Focus. I am hoping that these two new areas will be of great use when our traffic starts to really pick up. I have a feeling that will not be until after I do the official start of the comic.

I will also be trying to change gears in my blog posts. I want to work away form my political rants into a much more useful Bible study and family type post habit. I need to work on my relationship with God, and feel that my studies may help you, and your comments on them may help me.

I am also working on starting a genealogy site for my family. This new site, located at http://pgv.kelloggskorner.com, will only be accessible by registered family members. If you are a family member you must submit an application for an account which will be verified by a site admin or myself. I want to put together all the documentation I can to validate any genealogy data we list on that site. This will be a great resource for our family for generations to come if we can make it accurate and keep it running.

So that is all I have n the site upgrade and update for now. I will be working on my new posts and hopefully comic in the near future. I hope to see you all, and more, then.

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I have finished reposting most of my Myspace blog posts and all of my mothers “On the road updates”. So that gets me back almost two full years of blogging (minus my 4 month brake while on terminal leave). Now I need to repost Teresa’s blog posts, and reregister the Kelloggskorner.com domain name.

I am looking at setting an author avatar by posts as I have seen on other sites. I think it will make it easier for new people to figure out what is going on here.

As for the comic, I think I have come to the conclusion that I will not be happy with a comic about our lives. I can’t make my self happy with the character drawings yet. But I have another Idea for a comic story line. I will work on sketching that out and see if I can live with it.

So, that is all for this week. Feel free to read my old blog posts now that they are up.

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This is just a bit of an update, just to keep up with the three posts a week Ihave been doing.

I have added a gallery and Forum to the site. They are fully intefarated into the site so there are no extra usernames to remember. I am have also added a myspace crossposter to add blogs to myspace when they are added here. we will see if that works with this post.

Like I have said before, I am still not sure when the comic itself will go live.

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