Fiddling Around & Polling

Yesterday I had the bright idea about adding a poll to this site, figuring it could be a good way for me to gauge what people are thinking about when they read this site.

I have a wide variety of readers on The Article Writer from freelance writers, to SEO experts, friends & family members, college students, you name it. I enjoy the medley, but I want to make sure that the information I provide is interesting, if not relevant, to as many people as possible.

Working the poll into a widget (which I placed on the sidebar) took some time, but the biggest issue was the theme, as it would not make the poll work without some effort. Deciding that the old theme just wasn’t going to cut it, I went back to one of my oldest themes and promptly made things worse.

Finally, after going through six or seven new themes I settled on the one you are seeing today, but only after I reworked the font colors to make them a bit blacker and a bit bolder. Sometimes theme developers forget that people have vision problems (I don’t) and they make colors too soft or too light.

There are a few other kinks for me to work out including the look of the poll, but it’ll have to do for now because I have a boatload of projects to work on and complete before our extended month of February comes to an end.

Oh, by the way, the first poll is on the sidebar and it is for freelancers. If you work for yourself, won’t you take a moment and respond to the poll? I’ll be polling from time to time in the months ahead. After all, here in the US it is a major election year.