When you use stock photos in your blog posts, they just aren’t YOU. Your readers want to know who you are, and that includes the photos you use to illustrate your blog posts as well as your own blogging voice.
Best Practices for Installing or Upgrading a Plugin
February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a step-by-step list on what to do before, during and after you install or upgrade a Wordpress plugin. Plus Troubleshootin’ Tips.
Woo Themes: Pros and Cons
December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Woo themes are on the cutting edge of CMS use: they employ the Custom Post options (indeed, they helped create it), which is a big advance for Wordpress. This makes Woo a very powerful team behind you.
12 Inspiring Blogs
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The next Blogshop Weekend is coming up November 19 & 20, 2011, so I thought I’d show you some inspiring blogs created in past workshops.
Each blog was built on Wordpress, and only a few of these 12 have had any extra custom design, so these are pretty much DIY. Each of these bloggers had a working site by the second day of the workshop.
How to Save Your Blogging Butt: Export, Backup and Archive
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Follow these steps to make sure you’re ready for the strange things that can happen when you are the boss of your own blog.
How to Start a Sky Blog in Your Area
September 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A couple friends on Facebook have loved my posts from my photo-blog (or “phlog”) SantaFeSky365.com and asked if I could give them a quick tutorial so they could start a West Coast phlog. Here you go, Maya and Liz!
6 Ways Playing RIFT Can Make You a Better Blogger
July 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
We may not be Ascended Souls in Gnarlwood trying to save the targeted world of Telara, but we can use gaming lessons to better our blogging game.
Using a Blog for a Mobile App Project Management Tool
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Blogs are so flexible, they can be used as a quick website, a project management hub, and even a presentation tool.