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The great thing about dreaming up, starting, and cultivating a blog is the community that inevitably forms around you. We talk a lot on For Bloggers, By Bloggers about getting and retaining a community of readers and commenters and they are very important to the life of a blog. Their comments can help increase your SEO [...]
I am a huge fan of contact forms on WordPress blogs and sites, and have been for years. If you go to my site and look at one of my pages, you’ll see what I mean. WordPress has some very nice simple contact form plugins, like Contact Form 7 and Simple Contact Form, but for [...]
Some things are timeless, aren’t they? The “little black dress” is a brilliant example, ubiquitous, classic and eternally fashionable. A bit like blogging, really, when you think about it. I guess some people might raise their eyebrows at that statement; blogging? It’s only been around for a couple of years, hasn’t it? Nothing is new, [...]
The first time I recall hearing this concept of “begin with the end in mind” was with Stephen Covey’s groundbreaking book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (not affiliate link). If you haven’t read it – I highly recommend it. The concept is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is [...]
You know the chips I’m talking about. You walk into a mexican restaurant, sit down in a booth with no padding and before you can even order your water, BAM, chips and salsa sitting right in front of you. And just as he appeared, the wondrous chip fairy has disappeared to bring happiness to another [...]
Charming. Not as in prince, as in the town. Charming is the fictional home to a community of outlaw bikers known as The Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy is the highest rated show on FX, it’s cult in it’s niche and has been renewed for it’s 4th season which starts in September 2011. By [...]
Do you like to play with widgets? You know, those little buggers that do so many things for your WordPress blog? If you are on WordPress.com, you get a certain number of widgets to work with. If you are self-hosted, the sky’s the limit—and be forewarned: there are thousands of them out there. In fact, [...]
Lately, I have been getting huge amounts of stress at the thought of checking into my blog. Don’t get me wrong, I love my blog, hell, I adore it. Our relationship has been going on for almost a year now. When we started it was love at first sight. Then came the euphoria of trying [...]
This whole blogging deal can get confusing at times. We start off like gang busters with a passion and purpose. We write. We share. We create. We even think we are doing exactly what we were called out of the depths to do. Everything is pixie dust and unicorns. Beautiful. Exuberant. Near perfect. …and [...]
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