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How to Blog on Wordpress

Every blog platform has its blogger fans. I happen to be partial to Wordpress. I like the look. I like the user-friendly dashboard, and I like the fact that so many developers out there are making new Wordpress widgets all the time. I have my favorite bloggers too, and today I want to share my favorite Wordpress guru / blogger. – Lorelle.  

Her site, Lorelle on Wordpress, is a virtual treasure trove on Wordpress how-to’s, fixes, and insights into setting up and using Wordpress. I plug into it whenever I’m not too blog-tired at the end of the day to absorb a bit of new stuff. I always learn something when I go there.

 (Set up a feed; her site’s worth it!) Yours, Judith

Tags: Blogging, How to blog, Wordpress by Judith
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Learn to Blog Workshop

If you’ve been yearning to start a blog but just can’t get off the dime, then join me for this workshop.  It is custom-made for you. We’ll be jumping into blogging – much like I did right here just last summer –and we’ll do it hand-in-hand. Together! We’ll have a few laughs along the way, and we’ll all end up blogging.  It’s a 2-night workshop presented through the Washoe County School District Community Education department. We’ll be using computers in a middle school classroom.

(FYI, if you’re brand new to this, then you need to know that the blog site you set up will live on the Internet not on the computer. Once you build it, you can access it from anywhere in the world. Cool, eh?)

CLICK HERE for a copy of an e-blast I sent out last week. It’s got all the details.

yours, Judith

Tags: Blogging, How to blog by Judith
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Found it! Successful Retail Blog - Check it out

I don’t give a fig about yarn, but I sure do like this yarn store blog. yarn

Bloggers Kathy and Steve, owners of WEBS Yarn Store in Massachusetts, blog about their family, the retail yarn biz, and the latest in yarn trends.The blog seems to be written mostly by Kathy, though she gives Steve equal billing. (Just another fine and generous New England lady.)

On the last blog I saw, she and Steve were all atwitter about an upcoming yarn show and the new yarn colors and textures they anticipated seeing there. And especially, they were keen on seeing how the new eco and organic yarns were spinning out. And then, after that, there’s the excitement of this year’s sheep and wool festivals. What, with the “shear” promise of dancing and general hoofing about, I’m starting to get excited about those festivals right along with them!yarn skeinsyarn skeins

I love a couple that can get that excited — that passionate! — about yarn. And I love this blog. They also generously link to other knitter-blogger faves. Check it out for a fine example of a retail blog.

yours, Judith

Tags: Business blogs, Retail blogs, Small business blogging by Judith
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No blogging, just widgets and buttons

All right. I admit it. I’ve been getting intimate with Wordpress. But the darn software is so darn cute! I’m infatuated. I’ve been spending the last few weeks holed up with my crush.

And what have we done? Fiddled with some widgets, downloaded some, uploaded a few, found some stimulating new buttons, pushed this, moved that.

Most of this is simple stuff, made easy by the software. The addition of Linked In and Squidoo buttons on the sidebar, for example, was a simple copy-and-paste. (But if you like this stuff, you can spend a LOT of time popping one on, looking, taking it down, popping up another – Come back in a week and they’ll probably be different again.)

Some of the fiddling required a bit of HTML input, like adding the Amazon links for my books on my print portfolio page. (They hide there on the page: you’ll have to roll over to appreciate them.)

The software is  whole lot more fun behind the scenes, in fact, than out in front.

So, if it looks as if I disappeared for awhile, I did. But what a fun time I’ve had!

 

yours, Judith

Tags: Blogging, Functionality, Wordpress by Judith
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