Blog Design

The Blog Gets A Tune-Up!

I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work here and I’d like to let you know about them. My aim was to make the site more usable, accessible, and clear – this blog has nearly 1,000 pages worth of content and I wanted to help with the overwhelm/frustration of not knowing where to [...]

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Broken Theme and Something In-between

Many of you have probably noticed that my pages load really, really slowly. I’ve been doing some research on the guts of my system, and I’ve been able to determine why. Some of it is due to my ignorance, and others go way beyond that. While doing speed tests this morning, I came across something [...]

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Whose Blogspace Is This, Anyways?

I’m trying to save all of my metablogging posts ’til Friday, since if I wrote about all the stuff related to blogging that I’m thinking about, I’d probably write as much about blogging as I do anything else. That said, we’re off! Michelle at Bloggrrl wrote today about something that has been on my mind [...]

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How to Make a Most Popular Post Widget in WordPress

I’ve been looking around for different plugins or widgets that created a Most Popular Posts space on my blog. I spent some time looking and never found anything that seemed about right. But I wanted to get that space up on my blog so that I could point new readers to posts that other readers [...]

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10 Tips to Help You Fail at Monetizing Your Blog

[Abstract: This post provides tips to help you fail at monetizing your blog. It could also be seen as a list of things for you not to do if you want to succeed at blogging, but I have very little experience with that, so I'm sticking to what I know.) I really wish I had [...]

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A Somewhat New Look at APPD

[Abstract: This brief post discusses some of the changes to this blog.] After several hours of tinkering with CSS code and trying to figure out where my titles went, I have completed an update to the look of APPD. I have also reinstalled some new plugins. New Look Changed the font to be bigger and [...]

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Why I Quit Blogging

I’ve fallen off of blogging for a long (long) time for primary reason that I spent way too much time in front of the computer and not enough time doing things that I enjoy much more. Reasons I stopped blogging: Too much time in front of computer Not enough time to write about what I [...]

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