Just a quick post today – here’s an inspiring article I read over at Problogger from Jon Morrow. Jon tells how an car-accident changes his life forever, in more ways than one. It’s a truly awesome posting and I urge you to go read it.
Tell it to me straight – the value of feedback
Often in life (and blogging) we set our course and simply continue on the same path until something goes wrong (big time!). Depending on what goals you have set for your blog should determine the actions you take to reach your destination. In achieving your desired blogging goals it’s important to receive feedback (both positive [...]
9 Ways Visitors to My Blog can say “Thanks”!
Like many other bloggers, when someone visits any of my sites there are a number of things which I would like them to do! The purpose of my blog is not just to provide information but also to get my visitors to take action so I can build rapport, and hence, a network, of like -minded [...]
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Whilst just updating the Akismet plugin (which is the greatest wordpress plugin for preventing spam commenting!) on my site I made the fatal error of clicking the “update” button too many times! I am forever doing this – I am an impatient “so and so”. The result of this was a blank page showing “Briefly unavailable [...]
Changes to Make to a WordPress Install – part 3
In this final part of this three part series on changes to make to a new WordPress installation we will look at themes and plugins. If you miss them, here are Part 1 and Part 2. What are Themes and Plugins? In order to explain the difference between a theme and a plugin let’s use [...]
Reasons for Using Twitter – 12 of Them!
Why do you use Twitter? I would love to know. Here are some of my reasons – 1. Connecting with like minded people. It’s true that birds of a feather flock together – within a matter of a few weeks on Twitter it is possible to build a small “community” of followers and people you follow. It [...]
Changes to Make to a New WordPress Install – part 2
Welcome to part 2 of this article on changes to make to a new WordPress installation. If you haven’t read it already here’s part 1 of Changes to Make to a New WordPress Installation. In this section I will consider Permalinks and how they can be changed/optimised to help your blog post rank well in the [...]
Changes to Make to a New WordPress Install – Part 1
Congratulations! You’ve just installed WordPress and have a blank canvas to start working with. This is the first part of a two-part article – I hope to get part 2 published in the next few days. The blank installation is fine but there are a number of changes it is a good idea to make [...]
Why I love WordPress for Blogging
I have been using WordPress for blogging now for several years and I absolutely love it! I have tried other blogging sites/systems in the past but none of them felt as logical or comfortable to use as WordPress. There are two ways you can work with WordPress – you can either open an account wordpress.com or [...]
Why do I Blog?
Hmm, interesting question! We each have our own reasons for blogging and listed below are the main reasons I blog: – 1. I Enjoy It Call me weird but there is nothing I like more than sitting back after writing a post, hitting “publish” and refreshing my homepage to see the newest post there, in [...]
