Harlan Editorial

I’ll blog in my spare time. After work; after I close the doors for business that day; on my way home from work; my son (daughter, wife, husband) will blog for me; I’ll blog whenever I get the urge. I don’t like to write but I’m sure I can pop off a blog every coupla days.

If you’re blogging for fun and frolic, then all of the above works brilliantly and you can share your day’s log with the world: nothing wrong with that. But if you’re blogging as part of your business e-marketing plan? Different ballpark.

Here’s the great misconception I hear - have heard - several times. I can build my blog in wordpress and that’s the hard part. (No, I must tell you, that’s the misconception: creating the blog is the easy part.)

The time, effort and expertise goes into turning that pretty blog into a business tool.

yours, Judith

Tags: Business blogs, Small business blogging, Wordpress by Judith
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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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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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