In the interests of making this blog really about Hoboken – and Hoboken-ites – I’ve decided to ask you, the Hoboken Community, to contribute to this blog. Right now, I’m considering this another experiment much like my HobokoenWiki. If its successful, I’ll expand on the user contribution ideas.
Right now, I’m looking to spruce up the look-and-feel of the site. When I switched from Blogger to WordPress, I found that I had a lot more themes to choose from and, so far, this is what I decided to use. I kinda like the theme for its different color schemes; it also has different pictures you can use for the header – that funky colored picture below the Blog’s title and theme. And it’s the picture I’m looking to replace as a way to make the site look more like Hoboken.
I looked on photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Zoomr, and (my favorite) SmugMug for pics tagged with Hoboken. And while there are plenty of great photographers who have taken amazing shots of Hoboken, I couldn’t just gank (yes, gank is a word… look it up!) someone picture so I figured I’d give everyone a chance to submit their own photo of Hoboken and I’ll use the best one for the header image of the site. I’ll give proper credit to the artist in the About section of the blog and a link to the gallery or web page of their work. I don’t know how long it will take to get a good number of submissions but I’ll keep the ‘polls’ open at least a month from now; hopefully, that will be enough time.
I’m sure there are some talented people out there who can really capture the essence of Hoboken and I hope to see that represented here soon. Please email all submissions to hoboken@thehobokenblog.com and I’ll post every entry I get. Thanks!
