Borderline Fantastic

Here is what was popular across BF in September.

1. Underground Resume Ranking Report - Week 4
2t. Everywhere I go I keep her picture in my wallet
2t. What are/were your pet’s names?
4. Five Most Hated MLB Teams
5. BF College Football Week 3 Preview

You may have noticed over the past two weeks there have been a lot more sports posts than anything else here on Borderline Fantastic. The BF Front Page was being overloaded with them. I wanted to keep things a little more separated because the sports content has a much different audience than the usual BF content that I would still like to focus on and increase the number of those sort of posts.

I created a new home page for these posts, Borderline Fantastic Sports. You will notice that page has a different look from the rest of BF. In addition to removing full sports posts from the main page all of the sports pages also have that different look to them. Again, to try and separate them. I’m still working on that design. I’ll be tinkering more with the front page to give a little more information about new sports posts.

I hope to have a few more categories split apart to make the site easier to navigate and so you can pick your favorite sections to follow.

Trying something new. You can subscribe and receive an email on days when there is a new post on BF. The new posts should be included in the email.

Let me know your thoughts on how this works or if there is another service that may be better.

Now that I have an iPhone I realized the need to make my sites easily accessible on them. For my blogs was no problem thanks to the WPtouch plug-in. It takes no effort for you to use on your iPhone/iPod Touch, just visit the site and the correct version will be loaded. Here is how it looks:

This was the first plug-in I found and it seems to do the job. You can even write comments with it. All that needs to be changed are some of the icons. Otherwise I’m happy with the result.

I don’t have an iPod Touch so let me know how it works with one of them or any other comments using either platform.

I was away for the first half of the month and getting things back in order the second half. While nothing was posted, there were still some visitors. I’m curious to see what was popular.

1. Will I become a Safari User? - Likely still popular from earlier in the month from a link I had in a comment on TUAW.
2. Everywhere I go I keep her picture in my wallet - This was a post about some Gym Class Heroes songs. I think they have a new album coming out. Maybe that’s why this became popular.
3. Baseball Picks on Ice Cream Helmet - I talked about this one last month. No new sign-ups on Ice Cream Helmet but this post keeps getting views.
4. Skimboard in your yard - Same spot as last month. No surprise its still here. It was posted in June.
5. Top 5 Things I secretly miss about the 80s - This might be the most popular Fives. Kathleen came up with it back in December 2006.

I’ll get back in to things for August. Likely lots of iPhone talk but I’ll try to mix in some non-iPhone talk to keep everyone happy.

Here are the most popular posts for the past month based on views. Check out what was popular in May.

1. Will I become a Safari User? - TUAW had a ‘tip’ about something I mentioned a while ago. I commented and included a link to where I mentioned it.
2. Baseball Picks on Ice Cream Helmet - This was #1 last month and I’m still shocked since no new people have signed up for Baseball Picks.
3. Triumph at The Belmont - A Hulu video from Conan.
4. Skimboard in your yard
5t. Everywhere I go I keep her picture in my wallet - This post was made April 07.
5t. Horse Racing Picks on Ice Cream Helmet - Triple Crown is over so nothing to say about this one.
5t. Links for June 23 and Links for May 27

1. Baseball Picks on Ice Cream Helmet - You can still play Baseball Picks!
2. Links for May 20 - Third of four Links posts this month.
3t. Boo Most Commercials, Hooray Some! - From last May. Not sure why this post was popular this month. A look at some commercials for ESPN, Emerald Nuts, and Red Stripe.
3t. Horse Racing Picks on Ice Cream Helmet - The Belmont is this weekend, so there is still a chance to participate this year.
3t. Links for May 1 - First of four Links posts this month.
3t. The Long Plane Ride Home - From this month, the story of my flights to and from Seattle. Including my plane having to turn around and return to Houston during my trip home.