Blogging

Part three of: “Stylizing Your Content”.
I’ve decided to focus on WordPress for this series of posts because it seems most of you use it. However, most of the customization tips use html and css so they can be applied to many other blogging tools such as Movable Type, Blogger, etc. I will be using the […]

Part two of: “Stylizing Your Content.”

Okay, so you’re not a designer nor do you know very much about code. That’s fine. We’ll keep it simple (for now) and show some ways to beautify your stock looking content. We’ll put a dress on it, give it a nice waxing, clip its nails, find it a date […]

The paragraphs are non-existent and the lines of text seem to blend into one giant glob of black on white. There’s no stunning imagery to pull your attention from the 527 other blogs in your feed reader. There’s no links - giving the impression that I did absolutely zilch in research (which is true). I’m […]

I’ve been tagged with a meme so I thought it would be fun to participate (plus it finishes with a list of questions that are of benefit to this particular audience):
Rules:

The person tagged must copy the word (”Blego”) and paste the definitions of the word contributed previously by the people who did the meme.
A link […]

I decided to forgo the post I had ready for this morning to write about something that has very recently affected me.
Last night I signed into one of my WordPress blogs to find about 70% of the posts missing and the ones that remained were so out-of-whack I decided I was better off just deleting […]

This is a continuation of my previous post: What One Month of Blogging Has Taught Me (and some stats).
“You might want to expand on your traffic generating methods. So many people are looking for ways to gain more readers.” - Dave Origano
Ain’t that the truth.
What I will do here is provide the exact steps I’ve […]

“People who read blogs are a fickle bunch. If your blog sucks they won’t stick around. If you put forth the effort to provide a quality resource, they’ll respond.” - Deborah Ng
Fifty.
Statistically that’s how many blogs were created in the amount of time it took me to write the following post. That means the chance […]

There is no new thing under the sun…
Let us marinate for a second on a quote that has been around for centuries and very often regurgitated in some form or another by many people, including U.S. presidents:
“That thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which […]

I recently received a very nice email from a reader asking me, among other things, a few questions about writing. I’m not sure if he wants me to use his real name so I’ve decided to call him Michelangelo (after my favorite turtle).
Here is a bit of what he wrote:
“I’m doing a challenge this January […]

…metaphorically speaking. You can’t actually turn it into a cake, otherwise I’d have done it already.
Why a chocolaty cake? Because they’re delicious and pretty much universally accepted as so. People eat them up with vigor and wherever someone gets a good cake, they’re bound to return for more. So it should be with your blog.
Here’s […]

My Initial Experience
Entrecard seems to be working well.
I started under the category - Writing and Literature, and quickly made my way to the top, not number one, Inspiring Quotations has that locked, but I hit the number two spot. Not entirely too difficult seeing as how there are only 28 blogs in that category. So […]