OK I've been busy this morning lots of new stuff to learn. David is busy revising his lesson plan for Day 17 so were taking a well deserved break until Monday. This will give me a chance to read some more ebooks and do some independent learning. I've gotten about 1,000 pages of ebooks to read and some more stuff to learn about generating and monitoring traffic. Then I'd like to see if I can get some pictures posted to this blog. I've seen some pictures posted to blogs of group members in the 60 Days to 100k forums like Whitepines gardening blog Garden Gab which I think is very well done. I think pictures add a more complex, professional element to the blog. Plus once I get a website, I'd want to add pictures for sure, so I might as well learn now.

Speaking of websites, David is starting the basics of website design on Monday so I have to make sure that I'm prepared for it. I'll have to get the domain name registered. Perhaps even try my hand at a couple of articles using the keywords that came out of the exercises in lesson four (I think it was lesson four). That's hopefully if I have enough time. Speaking of time, I need to fix my computer so I can get back online. I want to reformat the hard drive but don't seem to be able to reformat it. I think it is because the hard drive is partitioned. If anyone knows how to get rid of the partition, please leave a comment.

Talking about comments, I have two already and I'm overjoyed. At least I know people are looking at my blog. It's reasuring to know that other people can in fact see it and I'm really online. I appreciate the comments and feedback, keep it coming. Nicolette, yes the link didn't work and I couldn't figure out why. I had to grab a more experienced web guy from work, I'll refer to him as TJ. TJ looked at the HTML code, figured out what was wrong and fixed it. TJ also showed me how to make the link pop up in a new window. The code that you add after the link in the html code is traget="_blank" . TJ suggested that I copy the link code from the template and paste it where I need it, then change the code to reflect the new site I want to link to, and voila, an easy to create instant link. Thanks TJ. If only I could bring him home with me to sort out our home computer.

I also learned about counting visitors. David recommended a site called http://www.sitemeter.com to track visitors. I went to the site and registered. I even managed to add a counter. When you go back to Sitemeter you can get some pretty interesting reports. I also found out that you can find out who's currently looking at your blog as well as a detailed report on where all the visitors came from. Isn't technology wonderful? Anyway this morning I checked my email and found a report from Sitemeter which gave an even more detailed recount of the past days traffic. It gave me by the hour details! They need to get an affiliate program going. I'd sign up right away.

I'm wondering if registering at the other blogging sites is gonna generate me enought traffic? Hopefully Sitemeter will help in that regard. I think that I should also add learning about RSS feeds and XML to my "to do" list. I've registered for this stuff but don't know how it works or what it does. If any of you folks do, please provide you input in the comments section.

Well as each day goes by the posts seem to get longer. I hope that I'm not rambling on but this is supposed to chronicle my thoughts and how I'm doing in the 60 Days to 100k experiment so if it does ramble at times, then so be it I guess. By the way, how am I doing? Add a comment and let me know. Bye for today, I'm off to learn some more stuff (After I try to add links and publish this post).

DB