New Home Coming

Well after much heart searching and deliberation, I have decided to move this blog, so in the near future Scruffyhippo's Blog will be on Wordpress with a new look.

Since I re-done the main website I really wanted to have the blog looking the same but with blogger that's impossible and I am now learning how to create a wordpress theme from scratch.

It should be no big deal as I have learnt my basic php coding on phpbb forums and created the website theme based on the forums, the pictures below will give you an idea what the blog will look like once it's all done, a cleaner and brighter look.





This is the current Home page











This is the forums theme







In the mean time I will still be posting here so keep an eye out for more unique articles


scruffyhippo

How to make someone feel worthy

You may of noticed that in the last week this blog has received two awards, they have been proudly pinned up on the right >>>>>
I must admit I was totally shocked to get them as I never win anything, well, until now that is :)

It made everything I do here worthwhile and has given me a renewed passion to give more on this blog.

In light of those awards the rules seem to be that now I have been awarded them it falls to me to pass them on so I am actively looking for 4 bloggers, 2 guys to pass on the 'awesome guy blogger award' and 2 girls to pass on the ' rockin Girl blogger award' and that's not all I will be looking for one blogger that I can pass on the 'Nice Matters' award.

As if that wasn't enough work, I have updated an award we have been handing out for the last 3 years on the main website psychicvisions.org to include blog websites.

Now this is not handed out lightly, in fact in the last three years I have only awarded this 12 times, they are dated and coded so others cannot copy them and use them. (to see one in use go to our home page at psychicvisions.org ).

How do you get one? you can't, but you can be nominated, or you can nominate your favourite website or weblog.

Only one each month will ever be awarded.

To see more on this very special award
Click Here to view page

scruffyhippo

New Look website

Due to re-building my main website at http://www.psychicvisions.org/ I haven't had time to post here as well, I have now finished about 50% of the pages onto the new template and now the new forum is open for registrations again.

I am having a rest from the blog, to give more time to the website and the many pages I want to write for it, so to keep an eye what I'm doing go to the website on the link above.

Angeleyes will still be doing readings by request, but now only on our main website for the moment.

Blog Update May

I have been finding it hard to get on here a keep the posts up to date with all my other commitments and websites, http://www.psychicvisions.org has been causing some problems for a while now and the forums have been running to slow, so I decided to put a new forum on my other server.
Now with 180 odd members on the old forums the migration to the new one has begun, but now I need to update the rest of the website because it no longer matches the forums !!!!.

This is a massive undertaking and could take a while as I have to build a style sheet to match the forums then create a htm template for all the site pages, 100's of them !!!

Anyone out there that can build a css quickly from a phpbb template let me know could save me some time.

Angeleyes has agreed to keep doing readings for here for the time being but little else will be posted unless I get the time.

Psychic Events in the UK

I spent most of yesterday evening updating and re-designing our 'What's On' pages on the website and now including arts and craft events, due to requests sent in to the site.

To see what's on go to What's On UK

By the way if you have an event planned or coming up let me know about it and I will include it in the correct section, international events also welcome and page will be made on request.

Contact Us

RSS Images

Ever wondered where all those posh feed link images come from? well I found them :) just like my new feed link Below.




To make your own and add to your blog or website feed Click Here Happy Creating.

Spam E-mails

Did you know, that one way the spammers get your e-mail address is send out 'e-mail bots'.

These are a bit like google bots that search your website or blog for updates but instead they are looking for e-mail addresses, I found this out a few weeks ago after still getting loads of junk and spam e-mails, on 3 of my e-mails, because I changed most of mine to a contact page ( see Contact Scruffyhippo in the side bar) I thought it would all stop, but it doesn't they sell on your address to many others.

As a result of that I have now changed my e-mail address and re-directed my contact page to that, guess what no unwanted e-mails now for 2 weeks.

The idea behind the contact page means no one has your E-Mail address (they use encrypted addresses), the one I use is hosted free, http://www.freedback.com/ although you can do your own.

If you have your e-mail address on your webpage or blog you can bet the spammers will be on it within weeks