While holding my breath, I’ve been making some changes to my blog over the past few days. I’m comfortable with adding widgets and making minor coding changes, but if it gets too complicated I rather just leave it alone for fear of messing it up. I know Barbara has a test blog where she tries out her configurations first, as do I. Do you?

How do you go about making changes to your blog, particularly if you are on WordPress, but not limited to. Do you just make the changes or do you test it out first? I always make a backup of my blog before I proceed with any changes, I’m that scared.

So what’s new here? For starters, my blog can now be accessed by using this url: ThinkingOutLoudBlog.com. Hopefully for some this may be a lot easier to remember than valeriemorrison.net/blog.

On the sidebar is a widget for popular posts and below the comment section of each post is a list of 5 random posts you may or may not have read.

There’s also a new page up top called Meet the Blogger, that’s about me. It’s really a bunch of rambling, maybe you’ll find it interesting or it could put you to sleep.

I also opened up ThinkingOutLoudBlog.com store over at CafePress. A small portion of all sales go to charity me.

Hope you like!