February 8, 2012
Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog – and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.
February 8, 2012
Let’s be straight – blogging is fun and blogging is cool, there’s no doubt about that. Of course, it can also be used by middle-school girls who believe that everyone in the world wants to know about the new pair of shoes they just bought. With this being said, I haven’t really told you anything you should ignore when writing your personal blogs.
February 7, 2012
As an occasional personal blogger, I have seen a lot of other folks in the blogosphere who just want to write personal publications that are not exactly meant for making money. I really like that, actually. We need more people who just want to share their stories in this world. However, some of you may be wanting to start your own blog, and I thought I’d drop a few of my personal tips.
February 3, 2012
Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click “Add New” in Wordpress.
January 19, 2012
Giving you ideas to write about is the main reason StoryTree exists. They have many topics available to help you come up with cool stuff to write about. They make it easy to get your brain flowing in a creative direction with all kinds of topics. What you, as the writer, choose to do with those topics is completely up to you, but they move you in the right direction.
January 18, 2012
With social networking services threatening to eat up all of our time, finding a solution that can help to manage all of your vital announcements and updates without overwhelming your time (and perhaps your state of mind) seems to be increasingly important.
Over the past couple of years the free TwitterFeed service has been developed to allow users the ability to automatically update Twitter, Statusnet, Hellotxt, Facebook, and LinkedIn
January 17, 2012
When you set out to write your personal blog, you’ll realize that there are a variety of different writer’s hats that you can wear. You may want to make a personal blog with your thoughts and records of your daily life, but on the other hand, you may want to make something a little more unique than that. Today, I’ve put together a few blog types that you may or may not want to avoid.
January 13, 2012
There are an increasing number of people who love to use Tumblr as a blogging platform. As blogs go, Tumblr is flexible, stylish and easy to use. Many people use it simply as a light-hearted way to repost their favourite images, while others have taken to using Tumblr as more of a lifestream. Those people in the latter group may have noticed something annoying Tumblr did last year – they stopped letting you import RSS feeds.
December 6, 2011
The world of blogging is an odd place, but at the same time, it’s a beautiful paradise full of free speech and a variety of personal views. Granted, it could also be considered the graffiti of the Internet, but that’s just someone else’s opinion. It seems like every blog has a theme or a running topic. However, there are a few topics that you might want to reconsider blogging about.
November 25, 2011
Growing a blog takes years, and a whole lot of pain and struggle. Then there are the major transitions, when you realize that you have to make some major changes, and it’s going to take a whole lot of work. There are a number of major changes I’ve had to make on my own blog, but one of the most difficult was that I had used a certain manual method to insert Google ads into my blog articles.
