Blog Changes

After many years with the same layout, I’ve taken the plunge and changed my blog layout. It’s probably well beyond time for this.

Change is good, and in the digital world that changes every day, it was probably silly to keep the same layout for almost a decade.

The layout was tied to my website, which really also needs serious updating.

In fact, I manage three websites, and all three of them need serious upgrading pretty soon. Look for that. Very soon.

In the meantime, now might be a fun time to journey back through some of the entries here. This new layout is a part of Blogger’s “Dynamic Design Templates,” and they’re pretty cool.

Just click on some entries to see the fun interface.

Even more fun than this, close out this entry, and find the menu up in the top left….it probably says “Magazine” as the default.

Scroll through some of other cool ways you can look at organize all the content here. My favorite is “Flipcard.” You can arrange things by date…and by “label” Both, very very cool.

The only annoyance right now is that Disqus does not seem to work with this interface. That’s a serious annoyance for me. I hope they figure that out soon.

So, change is good.

Check it out.

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Eric Folkerth is a minister, musician, author and blogger. He is Senior Pastor of Kessler Park UMC United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. Previously, he was pastor at Northaven UMC in Dallas for seventeen years. Eric loves to write on topics of spirituality, social justice, music/art and politics. The entries on this blog reflect that diversity of interests. His passion for social justice goes beyond mere words. Eric was arrested at the White House, defending immigrants and “The Dreamers;” and he’s officiated at same sex weddings. Eric was the 2017 recipient of the prestigeous Kuchling Humanitarian Award from Dallas’ Black Tie Dinner. (Human Rights Campaign) Eric has led or co-led hundreds of persons on mission trips to build houses and bring medical care around the globe, to places such as Mexico, Haiti, Russia, Guatemala, and Nepal. He is proud of have shephereded Highland Park UMC's construction of ten Habitat for Humanity homes, (and one Community Center) and helped forge an alliance with Habitat that led to the construction of 100 homes in Dallas, housing thousands of people. His wife, Justice Dennise Garcia, has 20 years experience as a state district judge and appelate justice in North Texas. First elected in 2004, she was the first Latina ever elected to a Dallas County state district bench, and she she left that position whe was the longest currently serving district judge. In 2020 Dennise Garcia was a elected as a Justice of the 5th District Court of Appeals for Texas. She is currently running to be Chief of the 5th District Court of Appeals in the 2024 cycle. They have the world’s best daughter, Maria, who is a practicing professional counselor in Dallas. Find links to Eric’s music-related websites, at the top of this site’s navigation menu.

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