Between wonderful family-time breaks, I’m continuing my work on preparing this site for its official launch in the New Year.
Yesterday, I found a way to set up the voting mechanism for the Best Construction Blog competition. Readers can scan and view the actual sites before voting.
I also realized a problem — and solution — to the blog competition. Some really effective forums such as Remodelcrazy.com (for which several people submitted nominations), might be built on a blog platform, but I doubt most of us would regard them as true blogs. These social networking groups and forums are characterized by larger numbers of participants and bigger scale than a simple blog.
The solution: Create a separate voting category for Best Forum/Group and invite votes for distinctive winners there. I’ll work on the new feature in the next few days.
Meanwhile, I’m continuing to migrate features and pages to the this site from blogger. One concern I have is the inconsistency of style and structure of many of the elements of the old blog, which I wish to re-incorporate here. This is because they are generated through a variety of services and resources. They fit, sort of, but don’t really look as professional as I’d like. The answer may be to contract with an outsider for a clean-up. Recommendations are most welcome either through a comment or email to me at buckshon@cnrgp.com.
