Tweetin’ Twitterific.

I got ambitious tonight and decided to start a little project I’ve been thinking about doing for a while and that’s adding Twitter to my website. I actually joined Twitter when it was launched and I didn’t find much value in the service, at first it seemed somewhat pointless and I ended up closing the account shortly after registering. Since then, Twitter has really exploded in popularity and there are more and more websites that are able to integrate with Twitter, MyBlogLog being one such website. So, tonight I decided to give it another shot.

I’ve been thinking about a way to add Twitter to the blog, where I could put the “badge” and what info I wanted it to display. I decided that the top near the navigation was a good spot for it, I’ve actually seen a couple other blogs with similar placement and I thought that it looked good up there. I still have a couple bugs to work out; I’m having some troubles making the little Twitter logo link to my Twitter page without it pulling the gray background from the previous div styling. I want to make it clear that I really hate the navigation bar on this layout, it looks decent but the way it’s coded is ridiculous. Some of you may remember that I originally wanted the navigation off to the right when this design was created, I guess I’m glad I was never able to pull it off now that I’m adding this Twitter thing.

Anyways, eventually you may be able to click the Twitter logo and you will go to my page with all of the ‘tweets’, for now you can take a look by Clicking Here.

For those interested, to pull of what I’ve done so far in terms of displaying my Twitter updates on the blog I’m using the SimpleTwitter plug-in for WordPress found Here and a little CSS magic. I think this will be fun having little blurbs and updates on the website. We’ll see how often I’ll have a chance to update it