Blog Maintenance

This weekend I took the opportunity to do some blog maintenance and make a couple of changes that I’d been meaning to make for some time. (My provider also took the opportunity to move its servers, which may have caused problems for some folks reaching the blog yesterday.)

First, I took "Defensor Fidei" out of the blog banner.

For those who were hear an almost-year ago (my blogiversary is coming up), this blog started with the title "Defensor Fidei" with the subtitle "Jimmy Akin’s Blog." That’s been my typical way of titling things (i.e., not after myself). My other (and inactive) web site, for example, still bears the title "The Nazareth Resource Library."

But I found that calling the blog "Defensor Fidei" caused a problem: It made it harder for people to find the site. A lot of people would tell me "I didn’t know you had a blog!" because, although they knew who I was, they didn’t make the connection to me by seeing "Defensor Fidei" in someone else’s blogroll. (NOTE TO SELF: "Duhhh!") As a result, a lot of people who might be interested in the blog weren’t connecting, and I eventually decided to phase out "Defensor Fidei."

The first step was to (more or less) flip the title and the subtitle, so the title became "JimmyAkin.Org" (a highly functional title) and the subtitle became "The Defensor Fidei Blog." After a while (i.e., this weekend) the latter would be dropped and the blog would simply be "JimmyAkin.Org."

One reason for dropping the subtitle was that, after the blog launched, it quickly diversified in terms of topic. I originally started by blogging about religious matters, making the title "Defensor Fidei" (Latin, "Defender of the Faith") appropriate, but I soon started writing about a wide range of other subjects as well, which folks seemed to think made the blog more interesting.

Since, these days, I blog about anything that I find interesting (religion included) and since I’m curious about just about everything, I thought about subtitling the blog "Jimmy Akin’s Interesting Universe," but decided not to (for the present).

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Blog Maintenance”

  2. For those who were hear an almost-year ago (my blogiversary is coming up), this blog started with the title “Defensor Fidei” with the subtitle “Jimmy Akin’s Blog.”
    Maybe change “hear” to “here”?

  3. A suggestion: You might consider merging your inactive website (“The Nazareth Resource Library.”), with your blog site. You blog on many issues, including religion, however I also get questions about how to get to your other ‘inactive site’.
    Maybe just a link would do…?
    Thanks for all your hard work.
    tim robles

  4. Actually, there is a link, up yonder in the “Sites” section of the lefthand column.
    It’s JimmyAkin.Com.

  5. Jimmy-
    “It made it harder for people to find the site. A lot of people would tell me “I didn’t know you had a blog!” because, although they knew who I was, they didn’t make the connection to me by seeing “Defensor Fidei” in someone else’s blogroll. (NOTE TO SELF: “Duhhh!”)”
    It’s natural . I did the same thing with my art gallery. I thought “Green Leaf Fine Arts” would be a KEWL name, but after several months I noticed that I still ran into friends who would say “Oh, I didn’t know you had an art gallery!”. I guess I also thought it might seem egotistical to name it after myself.

  6. Jimmy:
    Don’t you rhink it’s about time you updated your website? It’s been awhile . . .

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