Plans for DelawareLiberal.Net
Hello kind readers, DelawareLiberal is planning on moving to the next level of blogging in the near term. As you may know, we have used the delawareliberal.net domain name for the past 6 months or so. Currently, that address redirects to delawareliberal.wordpress.com.
We have been considering some changes to that system that would free us from some of the restrictions of WordPress.
First, effective today, you can contact most of our contributors with emails to delawareliberal.net addresses. Simply address your email to our “handle” (e.g. liberalgeek) at delawareliberal.net. There will likely be other email addresses created for roles, rather than individuals, in the future.
Second, we will likely move off of wordpress.com by the first of the year. We will continue with the WordPress platform, but running on a paid service located right here in Delaware.
Third, we will be able to add features to the DelawareLiberal site that are not possible at wordpress. This will include more storage, a mobile version of the website and some more plugins not currently offered by WordPress.com. The sites look and feel will undergo some small changes as a part of this while we hone the visual appeal of the site. Don’t worry, our writing will remain sub-par.
We are also considering the use of advertising on the site. Our intent is to keep the ads as unobtrusive as possible. The proceeds will be used to buy Mrs. Scott a big Valentines Day gift. 🙂
Here’s where you come in. How does this sound to you? Would this be a fair trade-off? Do you have any suggestions for how to do the ads unobtrusively? Has anyone used Google Adsense or any of the other advertising networks?
Also, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, please let me extend my appreciation to all of you for your readership. It really is your comments and participation that makes this site the community that it is. Thank you all.
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I fear change.
A privacy policy.
A privacy policy.
We are going to keep that to ourselves.
lol
I plan on having a web cam page for anyone that’s interested!
Will a web cam page hurt DV’s self-opinion of hotness?
DV needs another Mercedes; he’s sick of his Beemer….
We are going to keep that to ourselves.
Ahh, I see… the “Republican” privacy policy.
‘Nuff said.
Reliance upon advertising will make good conservatives out of you, so this is good! 🙂
Not suire what WP plug-ins won’t work on a wordpress.com site, though; seems kind of strange to me.
However, the most important positive change would be to have Common Sense Political Thought added to your blogroll!
One important upgrade, we need to be able to put polls right on the sight. The current system sucks.
I really don’t get the “business equals conservative” meme.
It’s not like republicans practice free market values with Ag, Financial, and Manufacturing subsidies, along with no-bid contracts.
Good catch VC. I’ve gotten to the point where that kind of comment just washed over me.
The issue with wordpress.com is that you are limited to the widgets that they give you. there are about a dozen of them and many are not directly applicable to us. Polling will be a big add. Hopefully, we will have better reporting and more ways to get our content into your head.
The privacy policy is a good idea. I will be looking into this soon with my fellow writers. I’m not yet convinced that the donviti webcam is a winner, though… 😉
It will be of my feet. people pay top dollar for the kinky shit