Archive for February, 2007

Welcome to AndrewBrunelle.com!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Well, it took me almost a year to make the leap from small time blogger to domain-owning blogger.  I have loved every step of the way.  Now that I own a domain name, there is so much more I can do with this site, things that will be beneficial to both the reader and the writer.  Here is what I have planned for this website and this list will ultimately be ever-changing as my state of mind changes constantly, but here are a few things I would like to do with this site:

  • First of all, I plan on writing much more in-depth blogs about the very things that interest me, filled with pictures (maybe) and various links, which will allow more people to get a better benefit out of the site.
  • I am going to put in a humorous stories section, most of them made up, some of them true to life, and the whole basis of these humorous stories is that they will alow you to take time away from the stressful, busy world and lighten up your day.
  • I plan on adding an audio section, where I will have some clips from my stand-up act and it will show you the band of comedy I am most comfortable with.
  • I am also planning to launch Google Adsense on this site as soon as I become comfortable with the technical skills needed to run the ads in the places I want them to be.
  • With the freedom I acquire from having my own website, I am now free to try almost anything and I believe this site will get better recognition, therefore becoming more popular.  So, I want you to enjoy this site even better.

So, what I am going to do in the next couple of weeks is figure out a way to link my original WordPress blog to this one, using HTML, so that I do not have to keep posting full-text articles there, but just links to this blog.  So any new blog entries I write will still have a spot on the old site, but the blog entry will be a link to this site, as a way to get the ball rolling for web traffic.  I realize that many people who subscribe to this blog have the RSS feed on the old site, so they would have no idea if I wrote a post here, so putting a link to this site on the old site is probably a great idea.

I know I will enjoy this process and through my joyful expression, I hope you benefit immensely from this transition.  I now leave you with high hopes and a feeling of serenity.

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Name Change Coming Soon…

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

I feel as if this blog has somewhat strayed off its original concept, so I am planning on making a title change to the title blog site, at the top from Comedy and Humor blog to possibly something a little different.  I still am not sure exactly what the hell the common thread is with all my posts, or if they even share any common threads at all, so it will take some clever examining to try and figure out this one.  I need a catchy name, a name that will bring people in and let them know what this site is all about.  At the same time I would love to host my own website, but with my technical skills lagging behind, I often wonder if there is a way to get just a blog as an entire website, as that is mostly what I will be needing, and anything else will be an afterthought.

I know I still want comedy to have something to do with the site, but I believe it will be more spiritually and philosophically focused.  It will be getting into the mind, the spirit, the body, and tying it all together with homor as the string that holds it all together.  That, and figuring out how to get the blogging software on my domain name I purchased, those are challenges I am facing at this moment.  If anyone has any suggestions on how to get this damn blog on my domain site, because I have tried uploading it before, following the precise directions from WordPress.org, and it did not work.  I just wish I had better skills when it comes to making websites.  I may have to try doing it again.  If you know how to do this, please let me know how.  I’d appreciate it.

Major, Major Edit:  I will continue blogging on this website in addition to hosting the same blog at www.andrewbrunelle.com, my new domain site.  I do not want to inconvenience people who already go to this site, nor do I want to limit myself by just having a blog here, and not being able to expand.  So, I figured out what it was I needed to do, got it done, and now I shall have two blogs, but they will essentially be the same.  The only thing I need to figure out is how to get all these posts onto my domain name without having to repost them all.  Perhaps divine intervention??  I’ll look it up when I have the time.  Thank you!

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