The Hazey: A blog & fansite for Discworld & Lego fans

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  1. Mr.Hazey

    Mr.Hazey Regular Member

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    Website Name: The Hazey
    Website link: http://thehazey.co.uk
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    Description: The Hazey is a blog and fansite for Discworld & Lego fans. I will share my thoughts and insights plus will offer resources for other collectors. I will be writing reviews and posting my thoughts on upcoming books or already released books or Lego set releases and anything else I feel people will enjoy reading. Also the aim is to grow it into a rich resource for other collectors, with downloadable Discworld book lists and lego set lists, plus galleries of my collection.
     
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    One of the best looking blogs I have seen :thumbsup:
     
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    Thanks pal, that means a lot to hear that, it is still very new and there is a lot to go on to the site as I slowly build it up. It will be great for fans of either Discworld or Lego to comment on my posts to get other peoples thoughts on my blogs.
     
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    Looks good! One suggestion, though, consider moving the about text in the sidebar to the top, rather than the middle, I had to search for it. I personally would move the about text in the sidebar above the share links, but that's just me.

    Did the site used to be something else? the name seems vaguely familiar.
     
  5. Mr.Hazey

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    It has been my domain name for many years and used it for a forum last year. Also for the suggestion will have a play around with the sidebar to see what looks better, thanks for the tip.
     
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    Keep up the good work, your blog is doing well Rich :thumbsup:
     
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    Yep since advertising on 5 sites the response has been great with over 60 comments tihs week alone.

    Latest blog post
    Gold Coin Replacements: http://thehazey.co.uk/?p=485
     
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    Wow, didn't thing Lego's Customer Support would be so poor.
     
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    what you on about they have been brilliant, they did not have to give out replacement parts as their plan was to have the dull gold but when people complained they decided to revert back to the shinny ones,their customer service is top notch IMO
     
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    Oh okay, I guess they expected to get away with selling those dull parts.
    And by the way do you have the option for Search Engine friendly urls for your blog? It would help you out. So instead of:
    Your url structure would be something like http://thehazey.co.uk/Gold-Coin-Replacements=485 (Just an example)
    Since it's a blog it will come in much handier for you.
     
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    Mr.Hazey Regular Member

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    Yep I could do it that way but not a fan of url like that and never seen the benefit either
     
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    Oh okay, but yea it does help though. I will be visiting your blog from time to time to see what you have published on there. Makes me want to go buy some legos, I love them haha. (I like the small kind)
     
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    Grat and if you can tell me how I would benefit from changing the links I will do as always open to new ideas even thought I am very stuck in my ways :P
     
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    Well there are certain things that google looks for when indexing a site, and urls with that structure make it much more easier for google to index. Not much good at explaining :P
     
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    Well I am going on Holiday tomorrow but here are my latest blog posts:
    June 16, 2011: Gold Coin Replacements
    June 16, 2011: A Look At Mark Ayling
    June 17, 2011: Holiday Time

    All my blog posts are over 300 words and these are my current stats:

    Went online 30/5/2011
    Total Posts: 22
    Total Comments: 89
     
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    Very nice, doing great in a short amount of time :thumbsup:
     
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    Yep it is, now I am back off my holiday will stick a load of blog posts up in next couple of days to catch up.
     

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