On October 17th, 2007, I started the first poll for Tech In Demand asking, How Is The New Layout? The results are in and from 7 votes, all of the voters selected Excellent.
Excellent (100%, 7 Votes)
Good (0%, 0 Votes)
Can Be Improved (0%, 0 Votes)
Bad (0%, 0 Votes)
No Comments (0%, 0 Votes)
Thanks to those of you who voted, and I do enjoy the new layout as well. I questioned it at first, but I am planning on sticking with it and improving it further.

I have added a few new features to the site. Thanks to Jeff at Jeffro2pt0, I have found the Digg This plugin and the WP-PostViews plugin which respectively adds a Digg button and displays the amount of views an article after the author's name.

Advertising:

Some of you might have noticed that I have implemented advertisements in the layout; this is obviously no accident. So if you see something you like, feel free to entertain the advertisers as blogging is my full time job now since giving up on financial trading a few months ago.

The plan is to grow the site, get enough daily traffic to warrant me to entice sponsorship, and hopefully support myself full-time for blogging about my passion for technology.  For now though, I am sticking with AdSense until I grow the site more or find something better.

The great thing about the way the advertising is set up, if you are a regular reader, then you will not see nearly as many advertisements (if any at all) when compared to those who are just passing by or infrequent visitors. Who Sees Ads, an amazing plugin written by a developer who goes by the alias "Ozh" on his website, is an excellent plugin that allows you to provide settings on who you want to see your advertisements. In other words, if you read on a regular basis, you need not even worry about having AdBlock Plus installed.

Lack Of Recent Articles:

Unfortunately, events in my personal life have distracted me from blogging anywhere near the amount I have wanted. A sick grandmother in the hospital, the threat of a staph infection (which thankfully I do not have), and a recent unlucky streak of sickness (I rarely ever get sick) has just overwhelmed me as of late.

Regardless, things are returning to normal. New articles will be a daily thing once again, and I have some feature articles that I have been researching and writing for weeks. They will not disappoint.

There will be a new poll coming soon, and and there will be some amazing stuff to read this coming week. So subscribe to the RSS Feed and enjoy the rest of your weekend!