I went to check energy.dare today and was very happy to find that it was back up. Hopefully, the folks at the servers have fixed whatever caused that and it will hopefully be a little more stable from now on. They did mention that they are trying to move the servers, so it might be up and down intermittently, so please bear with me. But you can always pop by this blog instead to find out what’s happening, and to get connected to energy.dare, either via making comments, or to the Dare bloggers.
You might have noticed that I’ve also decided to try a new colour scheme. I had informally asked a number of people to review the energy.dare site, and some of the overwhelmingly common responses were that the energy.dare logo (with the dark grey and red) didn’t really fit in with the greens that were used in the side nav bar and the top main nav bar. I like the logo, and I like grey and red, so hopefully, the new scheme is a little more consistent. The red pops more, and provides a better contrast with the other colours. I still have to figure out how to centre the site though…
On other news, I wanted to announce that, in addition to Amanda, karentsang and peejaytee, who have already very graciously volunteered their time to help me in this project, a new blogger, b, has hopped on the bandwagon. So go check out her energy.dare-related thoughts at baileyanonymous.wordpress.com.
I’m also thinking about providing more prizes. My professor suggested maybe I could look into some energy-efficient gadgets and things. What do you guys think? Any reasonable wish lists?
Hey guys,
I wanted to apologize for the state of energy.dare so far. The free web host that I’ve been using is having problems with their web servers, which means lots of down time for my site (grrr…). It’s usually off and on, but it’s been down for a while now. But you can still find important things here on this blog, like the Dare bloggers who have signed up and are posting already, you can send in your comments via this blog, and you can find out more about energy.dare at the About page. All of these links are located on the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen.
For those who’d like to sign up, in the mean time, go and read the requirements for joining. Then send an email to energy [dot] dare [at] gmail [dot] com with your…
Nickname*: (I’ll be referring to you by that name on energy.dare)
Email*:
Age*:
City*:
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Your Blog URL*:
Additional Information you’d like to share about yourself, but this is not required:
Thank you very much for your patience and undrstanding. I will post another update as soon as the folks at the servers have fixed their problems.
