Fish ‘N’ Chips

Just a note to let you know that I’ve renamed the Wallpaper of the Month category to just Wallpapers. I will still post my Wallpaper of the Month to that category but now I will also include any National Geographic Photo of the Day that is reef/fish/water related in that category as well as the Marine News one.  I have to go back and tweak some of my old posts and I’ll do that as soon as I can but from now on you can just click Wallpapers to find all the Wallpapers.  I thought that made the most sense! Anyone who’s linked directly to the Wallpaper of the Month category will still have working links so don’t worry about that either!

I have completely redone Fishy Happenings, the events listings for Fish ‘N’ Chips. It was driving me nuts how they were posting the old way. Every time I added an event it generated a mailing and they never sorted in an order that made sense. I mean really, who cared when I posted them, the important thing was the event’s date. So, I replaced the whole thing!

You can now find a listing of the upcoming events on the side menu of the newsletter section of my site. That list will only show the next five events. You can also find the Fishy Happenings on the site’s main menu in the Info section. There you’ll see a link to Fishy Happenings for the Upcoming Events and below that, a link to Past Events. The Upcoming Events are also available as an RSS Feed.

Announcements of events will no longer be emailed to you via your current subscription method. If you want to get the events, use the RSS Feed. At this point, I have no plans to setup a FeedBurner subscription service for them but if the demand is great enough, I will. So, let me know if that is what you want via comments to this post.

And, for those of you out there who run your own WordPress blogs and post events, here’s a plug for GigPress, the plugin that I’m now using for Fishy Happenings. Awesome, that’s what it is. Simply awesome!

Not sure if you noticed, but the home page has a new addition - a listing of the newest links in the Links Directory. You can also display these on your site! Just visit the Link to Fish ‘N’ Chips page and grab the code to add Latest Link Listings to your site.

I don’t really know why anyone got a FeedBurner mailing on February 22 that contained posts from December 2007 and January 2008. I’ve checked FeedBurner and everything seems fine. My best guess is that the night before I was tweaking the design of my neswletter section of the site and it triggered something and FeedBurner freaked out and sent out a mailing that made no sense. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Just a quick note to say that I’ve added a couple more options to link to Fish ‘N’ Chips. Just visit the Link to Fish ‘N’ Chips page and check out the new Headline Animator and Widget. These options will display links to my latest posts right on your site. The Widget can even be added to your desktop, MySpace page, and tons more.

For those with sites in the Fish ‘N’ Chips Links Directory, either of these new linking options will count as links back to me and get your site reciprocal status and a higher listing in the directory. The software won’t recognize the link because of all the “funky” code and because they are powered by FeedBurner so just let me know where to find the link and I’ll manually bump you up to where you belong!