I’ll show you mine if you show me yours!

One of the things that gets away from me is my desktop.  Not my real desktop, which is my lap most days, (donations toward a proper chair can be made directly) but the computer's desktop.   When you start up your computer there is the starting screen - that is the desktop. And if you do any amount of downloading or uploading or typing, you can end up with quite a mess on there - all my most commonly … [Read more...]

Redesign in Progress

Jan. 7 notes This is definitely the wrong order to do things in. But here I am, nonetheless. Take heed - it is much easier to put all the elements together in a graphics program, than live with html! I am referring to finding a place for networking profiles - twitter, facebook, subscribe, newsletter, etc. I had planned the top nav bar, I had planned the top of the sidebar - with the links to … [Read more...]

Pink for October – huh?

So yesterday I was so proud of myself that I told you all about my new plugin, and neglected to tell you WHY I wrote a plugin to place a pink ribbon on your blog.   So here's the short scoop from Pink for October website: " Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. But … [Read more...]

Summary of Last Week’s Posts

I know a lot of you are subscribed with good intentions, but if you are like me, the 'business' posts get read last (or not at all)! So here's a summary of the posts of last week so you can see if you missed anything important! Let me know what you think of this idea - of a review post. There is so much material that I need to get on this blog for resources for all of you, that I need to punch … [Read more...]

More options for styling your posts

This is one of the best plugins I've run into in a long time: Tinymce Advanced. Now, I've no idea what Tinymce is either -except that techy people say "Tinymce" when they are referring to the text editor that I'm writing this post in right now. (I always pronounce it TinyMice - I've no idea if this proves my brilliance or ignorance...) Have you noticed that button at the top of your post editor with … [Read more...]

Plugins for your Photos

Image via CrunchBase You've been to flickr. You've been to or used photobucket and youtube. Now, you can incorporate those things into your blog. And you don't need to use up your hosting space doing it either - this is available for anyone. Lorelle covers a giant list of plugins in this article overview of editing your photos for the web, uploading them, storing them, and even displaying … [Read more...]