Not Political – WordPress and Blogs
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I would say that most of us who write blogs are not professional journalists nor are we programmers. WordPress is a wonderful tool and there are tons of upgrades available for it from various plug-ins to widgets to themes. One of the things I enjoy doing is visiting the websites of those people who are kind enough to visit and post a comment on my site. I notice many different types of blogs from self-hosted (like this one) to free sites on WordPress or other places.
What I’d like to ask is what works for you on your blog? I’ve been using a three column theme for some time now just because I found it gave me more room to post links and other things. The theme I’m using now, Atahualpa, is pretty good though I wish I knew enough coding to change some things.
How much time do you spend “working” on your blog (aside from writing the articles) and what are some of the things you found worked or did not?
Do you think a lot of great blogs are held back because they are too cluttered or confusing to find articles? What things do you wish you could add to your blog?
Finally, thanks to all who visit here and post their comments… they are greatly appreciated.
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23:58
I am a graphic designer, so a visually pleasing blog is really important to me. I took a lot of classes about layout and effective communication through good design, so I always try to keep my blog really clean, while still placing a lot of information and links in it. There are times when I just get really into customizing and figuring out html stuff, but I try not to overload my site visually.
P.S., that Anonymous commenter cracked me up. I have haters! I will wear it as a badge of honor. Bring em on.
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19:25
I like your site… particularly the graphic at the top.
10:22
My day job is an ecommerce consultant. I have helped a lot of people figure out wordpress. The best theme I know of is Thesis. It is kind of like Atahualpa, in that it is customizable, but it isn’t as clunky. However, I think it is a theme you have to pay for.
Another great tool for doing keyword research for SEO purposes is market samurai @ marketsamurai.com.
burro´s last blog ..Bulls, Bears, and Obama
19:26
I saw Thesis. I think it’s $74.95. When I compared it to Atahualpa I didn’t see the value.
21:54
I started my blog to re-publish my columns. Later it had as aim to bring co-bloggers from Turkey, Greece, Armenia together…that worked for a while, especially with Armenian which is ‘at war’ with Turkey, so do the Greeks..((
Later it became more an informative blog, although with the EC widget we got a lot of hit-and-run ‘readers’.
I spent at least 1 hr a day at Internations and 1 a 2 hrs at Entrecard…too much time.
kindest
hans
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17:45
I get urges once in a while to spend a lot of time on my design. I believe I’m
on my third theme. I even spent a ton of time customizing my second theme and
then used it one week before changing, lol.
I got my current theme from graph paper press and then edited it myself. I’m
no programmer either, I just kept changing things in the code and then
reloading my blog to see how it affected things. GraphPaperPress has gotten
too expensive and has tried to justify their cost with “support” and “updates”
but I found their support to be piss poor in the past. I doubt I will pony up
to them again.
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17:47
I like your theme it’s very news magazine oriented. I will check out Graph Paper Press thanks.