To All Who Come To This Happy Place ... Welcome

Welcome to StartedByAMouse.com's Blog Ride. This is a new section of the site intended to allow me to express thoughts, share news and link to Disney topics of interest around the World Wide Web in the most timely manner possible. I hope to post comments periodically throughout each day so that there is always something new being added to this site. Feel free to get your hand stamped and return as often as you'd like.

I've debated for a while whether to jump on the Blog bandwagon. I've also debated how best to incorporate such a section into StartedByAMouse.com. Should I just post a new page in HTML to an existing section of the site? Should I add another section to the Disney Discussion Forums? Ultimately, I decided to give it a section of its own and utilize software from Blogger.com to power it.

The decision to use Blogger software was made because of its easy, one-touch publishing, which doesn't require me to re-program an entire page of HTML to make a change. I decided against utilizing the forum software because this layout allows me to post larger pictures than is available there. It also allows me to designate this as a stand-alone section of StartedByAMouse.com. Blog Ride is meant to add to the overall enjoyment of the site, not to take away or replace other sections. As of right now, you don't have to have a Blogger.com account to reply to any posts here. Feel free to share your responses. And please continue to post in our Disney Discussion Forums.

A few minor changes were made to accomodate the Blog Ride into a section of its own. We've re-ordered the navigation buttons at the top and bottom of each page throughout the site, moving our Links to a text link at the bottom of the page next to our We Were Started By A Mouse Too! link. We've also tried to put the buttons of the most frequented sections of the site nearer the left side of our list to aid in navigation. There may be a few more tweaks as I get used to how this software works and what I can do with it. Please let me know if you are having any issues accessing anything on StartedByAMouse.com.

I can't promise that every trip you take on the Blog Ride will be an E-ticket adventure but I hope that it will be a good venue for providing you information about the World of Disney, updates to this site and our thoughts and feelings about it all.