Web Publishing

Dust Off your Old Posts with WordPress Plugins

November 9, 2010
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If you have a new blog, this isn’t something you need to consider really. However, if you have been blogging awhile and have amassed some nice content you begin to think about how much is lurking under the surface, like a crocodile in the water or an iceberg waiting for it’s Titanic. Why let the [...]

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Are Tags and Categories Too Much Work?

October 5, 2010

With regularly keeping this blog, moving an old blog onto WordPress from Blogger as well as starting a new blog, I’m finding the biggest amount of work is from tags and categories. Even this blog which is my most established and perfected (not perfect but given the most labour of the labour of my love) [...]

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Creative Women Share Social Media Tips

October 1, 2010

The series of posts are originally called 9 Creative Women Share Secrets to Succeeding with Social Media. But, the part about it being a secret seems a bit too silly to me. So I am skipping it and posting it here to share the “secret” too.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Bold

September 9, 2010

I’m kind of a shy, quiet person. When I was a teenager and had my first real job I was so quiet the other women thought I was a Mennonite. It wasn’t a comment on my fashion choices, I was just quiet. I’ve always second guessed anything I do that puts me into a spotlight [...]

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Considering and Writing

September 6, 2010

It’s not easy to delete a spam comment when you actually like it, when they say something nice about you. Finally a smart blogger…I adore how you’re considering and writing! What you have to remember at these times is the commenter does not know you, has not actually read your blog or any of your [...]

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You Don’t Need an Image with Each Blog Post

September 5, 2010

Why are you adding an image/ graphic/ photo to your blog post? Because someone said to do it that way? Because people are visual and need the extra stimulus? Because the print magazines (or some popular blog you read) does it that way? Rethink that plan. The images added to blog posts for the sake [...]

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Make Yourself Famous

September 4, 2010

Does your blog feature you, as a person? I’m not one to blast photos of myself on the Internet, or anywhere. I hide behind the camera, as the one taking the photos and don’t mind at all that I am rarely in any of them. Yet, people like to hear about people. People like to [...]

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The Advantages of Being a Twitter Blogger

August 20, 2010

Some people, like WebSavvyEditor, don’t have a blog which they link to in their Twitter profile. I think these are interesting people. First of all, they don’t spend a lot of time fussing around with a blog that needs a template, possibly ads and analytics and other assorted gadgets and gizmos. They have time to [...]

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Seven by Twenty

August 18, 2010

Seven by Twenty is an online magazine using Twitter as its publishing platform, for readers at home and on mobile devices. Publication is on hiatus until September 2010, and submissions are still open.

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Six Reasons I Like Having a Microblog in my Sidebar

August 18, 2010

Why I like having a micro/miniblog in my sidebar… There are always little things I find online and want to stick into my blog. I don’t want to turn every little thing into a full blown post when it can stand on it’s own with just a linkback to the source. It gives readers something [...]

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The Cause of the Personal Blogger

August 5, 2010

Kirsten is taking up the cause of the Personal Blogger. I find it hard to stick to writing about blogging, publishing or writing from the personal perspective. Somewhere along the way it dips into getting comments, traffic and readers and then you find yourself in the land of the SEO gurus who want to sell [...]

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What to do with an Unused Web Domain

August 4, 2010

I’m not a domain seller, I’ve bought a few and find that I just can’t spread myself thin enough to make use of all of them as I’d wanted to. So, next stop is to make a decision about them. To use them in some way or to sell them. As it turns out, the [...]

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Blog Ethics: Writing a Disclosure

August 2, 2010

Do you need to write a disclosure for your blog? I’m not running a disclosure on my blog. I decided not to but changed my mind. I am only running one paid ad in my sidebar. I don’t have a personal connection to the company the ad is from or the agency who pays me [...]

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Geotagging Your Blog

July 18, 2010

You don’t need to add a geotag to your site or blog. At the moment it is an interesting sidenote more than something practical. However, I can see it evolving and growing as we begin to use the Internet for more than just online socializing. There is offline socializing too, after all. People have been [...]

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Play with Fonts on WordPress?

July 16, 2010

Want to change your fonts (typewritten characters/ lettering) around on WordPress? Take a look at Facelift Image Replacement (Flir) and All-In-One Cufon. They are different plugins and both take some playing around with adding font files and such. So you need to do a bit of reading to get them working.

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Email Bankruptcy

July 7, 2010

Amanda at BloggerBuster declared email bankruptcy in May this year. She is trying to bring her site back to life after taking a break for several months. It is a chore to catch up and revamp and find out what you didn’t keep up with while you were ignoring your blog awhile. She decided not [...]

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Professional Forum Moderators

June 28, 2010

I’ve moderated a lot of forums and chats. I never feel personally responsible for maintaining freedom of speech. If I delete, I delete without looking back or being obligated to give a lengthy explanation. I like the word moderator for the people who run a forum (or chat, etc.). Moderation is what it is all [...]

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WordPress Plugins for Web Comics

June 27, 2010

These are not in any real order and they are not reviewed by me. I’m just posting the results of my research into how to make a gallery of my own web comics through this blog on WordPress. None are just what I am looking for, so far. But, my list may be useful to [...]

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Adapting WordPress for PDA and iPhone

June 26, 2010

I don’t have a PDA or a cell phone but I am aware that people do use these things. There is talk about making the web user friendly for these people and their gadgets, so I have done so. I hope. I installed and activated a plugin for readers with PDA’s and iPhones. Let me [...]

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Black Backgrounds Have Glare

June 23, 2010

One more reason not to use a black background on a website or blog… Glare! I have a new monitor, one that stretches wider than it is tall. It is also shiny for some reason. The one that came with this computer was not shiny but this one is. Anyway, I find websites and blogs [...]

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Is HTML 5 Real?

June 13, 2010

I found a link to HTML5 demos through Twitter. I lost track of the original link to whoever posted it on Twitter. The post says: So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so [...]

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