The servers were a little overwhelmed this afternoon. It appears we all had the terrific idea to start blogging this afternoon in the middle of some discrete security upgrades. Things were sluggish for about 4 - 5 minutes. Its all good. And we're all wrapped up securely. … [Read more...]
How to Watermark Your Photos
November 15, 2010
Wendy had emailed earlier this week with a tip for adding watermarks to your photos. The first photo below from Wendy's blog is a little naked at the moment. What we're aiming for is a watermark similar to the photo on the right from the Picky-Palate blog. Wendy, La Phemme Phoodie, with gorgeous photos all over her foodie blog, wrote this: I exchanged messages with Jenny at PickyPalate. She uses Picnik. I have been using Picnik so I was thrilled to hear she was doing it on their site. It's super easy. On the Create tab, click in to Text. Type your text, Add it, and toggle through … [Read more...]
How much does Blogging Cost you?
November 9, 2010
I'm adding up my monthly costs including premium plugins, themes, (negligible when spread out over the life of the theme) domain name, and hosting. Maintenance fees or technical advice if necessary too. How does it add up for you? And do your choices make a difference when you are a hobby blogger or a pro blogger? … [Read more...]
Outage This Morning
November 2, 2010
UPDATE: So Math isn't my strong suit - lol - 9 minutes is .0202% of the month. So we were down for substantially less time than .1%. ----------------------------------------- This morning HostGator experienced an outage - nearly EVERYTHING went down. Not just our server, but 1,000's of them, including your sites, email, ftp, etc. Nothing should be lost and everything should be working now. However, I'm not sure the cause of the loss, and will update as I know more. So there may be intermittent problems or slow loading through the next couple of hours I would guess. We were … [Read more...]
