The Adventurist: Going Legal and a Couple of New Features

Alright, so I had to finally get “legal” as far as The Adventurist was concerned.  If you will look to the upper right hand corner of this site, you will notice a new area–the “Legal Mumbo-Jumbo”.   What this is, is the license and copyright information for this site.  If you will click the link (the highlighted words) it will take you to my legal agreement.

What this agreement does is that it allows a blogger or website or anyone else for that matter to republish, reprint, or distribute any article found on The Adventurist as long as you follow three criteria: 1)  That you acknowledge The Adventurist as the source by including a link back to this site as well as including my name as the author,  J. Alan Hendricks, of the article being used. 2) That if you decide to use an article on your blog, webpage, ect. that you send me a note and let me know where it is being featured and lastly, 3) that any portion of this site or it’s written or photographic material submitted by myself or any writer of this site shall not be used on a Commercial Website without the expressed consent of the owner, myself, J. Alan Hendricks.

This is just a little bit of protection I have set up for myself as this site continues to grow and generate interest from abroad.  It is a binding contract and in every sense of the law, Legal.

Now on to the fun stuff!  I have updated the left-hand side-bar with a couple of new additions. 

1. If you will scroll down past the AlanArnette RSS Feed, you will notice a small photo and link that promminently says “Donate your Opinions, Save the Planet” featured on a very nice photo of someone rock-climbing.  This comes from the Laneo website–I think being the outdoors types that we are, that it is very important for us to protect our world and natural and wildlife resources.  This great feature will let all of us help without spending a dime.  It is really a neat organization and I am proud to make myself and The Adventurist a part of it.  By the way, this is not advertising–no one has been paid.  This is trying to keep in the spirit of keeping this a free site for all of my loyal readers.
2. On past the Laneo Ad, You will now find a pretty neat feature called “Global Visitors”.  What this does, is it allows everyone to see where the readers of The Adventurist are arriving from.  It will also rank the top 10 countries that have visited this site.  Should be pretty interesting to watch and will be nice to know how far out in the world The Adventurist is being read.
3. Below the “Global Visitors” Box, you will now find a small tag that says “Blog Top Sites”.  This is a ranking of Blogs and how they are doing.  There will be a small number listed to the right, in a small box giving The Adventurist’s current ranking–which I see is currently 399–but I just put it up and it is new, so I am sure the ranking will rise (hopefully)
4. and lastly added is a small text link that says “Who Links to Me?”  If you will click this, this will give you information on who links to this site–how many links are found in search engines ect. 

 For the most part all of this new stuff that I have added will aid all of us to know and understand how this website is working and doing in general.  This is a way that I can allow all of you to be a part of our continued growth and success.—Now click that Laneo link and go SAVE the World….