Yearend Special: The Evolution of Homeward Bound
THIS MIGHT sound like a copy cat post from Jehz, the Philippines’ blogging ans SEO guru. *wink* Just let me do so as it is the appropriate thing to do as the year ends…especially if you change theme as often as I did this year.
Let me continue…
Homeward Bound was born out of a prize I won in a blog writing contest more than a year ago. Thanks to Shari for paving the way to my owning and loving a self-hosted WordPress. In other words, I have only learned self-hosted blogging for that long. Although, I have been blogging (without earning) for over four years before I was introduced to a more “professional” blogging. Jehz, Winston, Aethen, Tanom, Richard, and BrVince were my “colleagues” then. Now, they all have soared the heights of the blogging industry. Well I have ascended, too, but only a bit.
So let’s take a look back at how this blog evolved…
This is Homeward Bound's first header. That's animated.
I got tired of making headers. I ran event banners instead.
My blog turned minimalistic.
This theme has 2 sidebars and a featurific plugin.
This one is the most recent.
As has always been said. Nothing is constant in this world but change. We call that the law of entropy in physics. So let me present to you a new look for the new year!
For this template, I’m using an unsigned Revolution theme called Church. You have to pay in order to access support from the maker of this theme. There are also very few help found online so I made some modifications based on the things I have learned though blogging. This is a sort of a practicum for me. Well, I’m glad with how it turned out.
Happy new year to everyone! Hope to see you here for the rest of 2009.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
hope you could take time to answer CNN’s survey. Although the survey is just like asking about NEC, in return,CNN will donate $10 to a charity of your choice.
https://ask19.synovate.net/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.project=J4Y7402&i.user1=cnninternational&i.user2=3AG47G14G5A
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December 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
take note pala, CNN quotes: “If you are one of the first 1,000 respondents to complete the survey CNN will donate $10 to a charity of your choice.”
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December 31st, 2008 at 3:12 am
Kakatuwa naman! Sayang, I dont have files of my old headers. Could have done a similar post.
Happy New year Ariel! 2008 was good to us bloggers and I didn’t expect we would evolve to be what we are now…. lalo ka na, dollar earner extraordinaire! Basta one thing lang, teach others like me too. Har har de har!
Thanks Ariel for being one of the shining stars in 2008 for Bariles.
bariless last blog post..Free Manny Pacquiao 2009 Calendars, Bariles Republic’s New Year treat!
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December 31st, 2008 at 4:03 am
@bariles – thanks, sir avel. Gensantos.com is the best thng that ever happend 2 gensan in 2008.
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December 31st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Happy New Year too, kuya Ariel! from here tgnet
siranikss last blog post..Xmas!
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December 31st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@siraniks – hapi new year, nash!
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January 1st, 2009 at 5:34 am
happy new year ayel!
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January 1st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
@karlow – Thanks. Karlow! Hapi new year, too! Welcome to my blog! Haven’t seen you for quite some time…
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January 8th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Hi Ayel, thanks for the visit. Loving the new look of your blog.
http://hammedonline.tk/
Hammeds last blog post..Song in the Blue Hour
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January 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
woot!
andito pala ako. hehhehe. weee. congrats ayel! wishing you a more prosperous year.
Winstons last blog post..The Xcelerator — Asia’s best Zipline
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January 12th, 2009 at 2:15 am
@Winston – welc0me, wins!
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January 12th, 2009 at 8:11 am
i cant help but, laugh! laugh! laugh! out loud.. me? soared the heights of blogging industry.. more lol.. haha! thanks by the way for the compliment. lol.
richards last blog post..Kidapawan Bloggers and Web Developers 2nd Organizational Meeting. Soon…
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Wow
Alvaro s last blog post..¡Australia: El Hotel que no duerme!
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