Few Guidelines On Browsing This Travel Photo Blog

New year, new image. As promised end of last year, I have done some cleaning up and facelifting to this travel photo blog. As what you are seeing now, the layout is much more cleaner and tidier (or you didn’t notice it at all? ).

Firstly, I have added a new Title image. This is a photo taken on my travel to Phuket a couple of months ago. I found the turquoise sea colour is just right to blend into my blog theme so I made it into a title image. Secondly, I’ve included more posts in the top featured post slider and a secondary slider of my istock photo collection. Thirdly, a new Twitter icon is inserted on top of my sidebar for readers to follow me more closely. Lastly, I have taken out some of my sidebar widgets which were found idling or not so active or popular among my readers over last year, while adding in some useful sections like the ‘Contact Me’ and blog ranking buttons. I leave my footer ‘Flickr‘ slides and ‘Hotel Combined‘ search panel alone as I still find them useful to my readers.

The most significant changes to the sidebar would definitely be the disappearance of those separate link groups for travel blog links, travel links, travel e-book links and travel feeds links. I’ve filtered them all and deactivated those inactive links or travel blogs and group the rest into a complete new page called Travel Links (also see them by clicking the top tab above Title image). Sorry for those who have submitted your travel links to this blog a year ago through my link promotion and found your blog link disappeared from the list. If you think your travel blog is still worth to be included in this blog’s link list, please drop me a note in the comment section of this post and be more active in my community and I’ll put it back on the list!

Ok. Here are some notes to guide you through the navigation process of this travel photo blog to make it better and more efficiently. Don’t get me wrong. Readers can still find everything they want and we have, or understand what are featured on this page. I’m just using this special post to promote these features a bit harder. Can’t I?

• There are 2 rows of tabs above and below the title image on the header;  top tabs are special links to my other blogs, travel links with travel blogs that I read and author and Contact Me page link;
• Bottom tabs are popular categories of my published posts so far. Each category tab features relevant posts in a new page;
• If you are on the home page, you will also see a slideshow featuring 15 recent posts that have the highest visitors traffics for the past month. Clicking any of these image will bring you to a new page for full story of the post;
• On the sidebar, first you can see is my istockphoto collection slideshow. Sit back and view my collection slideshow powered by JWPlayer. Click the photo for next photo. If you like any of them and wish to purchase, just click the link below the images to navigate away to my profile page of istockphoto;
• Next to it is 2 big icons, RSS Feeds and Twitter icon. Click RSS Feeds for free updates of this blog via e-mail. Clicking the twitter bird will let you follow me on Twitter;
• Scrolling down the page you would see some links section connecting to my older but popular posts, my paid text links, my commentators and tags;
• Further down again on left bar is featuring some useful and popular products from Amazon. Buy online and you can support me to earn some commissions while you won’t lose a single penny;
• Not much changes to the right bar except both Archives and Categories section are now ‘drop-down’ instead of ‘show-all’ list, to make it tidy; Also, new buttons for Trusty Index and new section for Contact Me is now included.

Simple, isn’t it? In other words, for certain circumstances, readers can also use these guidelines:

• To see what my other blogs are and also my introduction and Contact Me page, click those top tabs above my title image;
• To see my travel blog lists, click the Travel Link tab on the same row as above;
• To see my popular categories, either click the header tab or select any of the drop down menu on right sidebar;
• To see the most popular posts (in terms of visitors traffics) of 15 posts over the last month, click the image of the slideshow on top of blog to open up a new windows;
• To see the most popular (in terms of comments) commentators for the past month, check the ‘Some Popular Posts’ section on sidebar;
• To search for other older posts, try looking into the Archive or Categories section of sidebars. If you have a tag in mind, try looking for your stories by clicking any of the tags. Or you may check out those related posts listed after the post content;
• To check through the blog’s ranking and reputation, check the ‘Trusty Index‘ section.
• To contact me, click the top tab or read some information at the bottom of my right sidebar.
• To see what’s on offer from the Amazon online shopping facilities, check out the left side bar below the fold;
• To subscribe for fress updates vie e-mail or RSS, click either the big button on top of right sidebar, fill in the subscribe form below it, or click the link at the bottom of each post, and
• Finally, if you think this travel photo blog is worth your time reading it, consider to support me by donation or just buy me a cup of coffeee!

So, you don’t have any excuse to not view other pages or sections of Travel Feeder by now. Enjoy reading! Please comment if you have any issues or recommendations to this travel photo blog. Thanks.  – Travel Feeder.