March was a busy month in my Blog Exercises series. Wow, are we already done with the third month in this year long series? The participants explored a wide variety of blog exercises on editing, blogger identity, content organization, and web writing. There were exercises to motivate and inspire you, and help you inspire your […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips
| Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, Blogging Tips, improving your blog, site improvements, site maintenance, summary, web writing, Writing |
Do you preview a post before publishing? If not, consider adding this extra step to the publishing process. Why? I’m human. So are you. We mess things up. No matter how careful you are, you will make mistakes. That’s life. By double checking what your post will look like before you release it to the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
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I’d like to introduce you to the work horse I use for speed blogging. It’s a web browser add-on for Firefox called CoLT. It stands for Copy Link Text. I will be offering a variety of web browser tips and tools to make blogging faster and easier throughout these Blog Exercises, and of all of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, colt, firefox, firefox add-on, firefox extension, firefox tips, html, productivity, speed blogging, web browser, web browser tips, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips |
I will be teaching a WordPress Introduction college course at Portland Community College in Beaverton, just west of Portland, Oregon, starting April 3 – June 12, 2013. The course is a hybrid online course meetings Wednesdays from 6-9PM with a minimum of two hours online per week. Called “CMS Website Creation: WordPress,” this 3 credit […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging lessons, Blogging Tips, classes, college, education, learn wordpress, pcc, portland community college, training, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress classes, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress training |
In “What’s next for blogging: I try to predict the future” by Yesterday’s news, the author, a Creative and Professional Writing Major at Bemidji State University in Minnestoa, used fantastic visuals to take us on a journey through the development of blogging and the blogging industry for a class on blogs and wikis. She makes […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips
| Tags: blog, bloggging history, blogging, blogging class, blogging future, blogging past, college, escribitionist, history of blogging, sousveillance, students, the history of blogging, university, weblog, you are the camera |
February 28, 2013 – 4:57 am
Without the feed reader, my blogging life would be seriously hard work. Feed, commonly misidentified as RSS, is the proper name for the contextual version of your site as distributed through various feed types such as RSS, Atom, XML, etc. They are basically your posts stripped of your website design, read like articles in a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, citation, cite, content, content inventory, credit, feed reader, feeds, resources, rss, sources, speed blogging, Writing, writing for the web |
January 23, 2013 – 10:02 pm
The following are classes and workshops offered by Lorelle VanFossen. Writing for the Web June 3 – July 8, 2013 Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am – noon in the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon. USD $179 This writing class […]
January 23, 2013 – 8:55 pm
On August 16, 2005, Lorelle on WordPress became blog ID number 72 on the brand new WordPress.com. The first post was appropriately titled “Lorelle on WordPress” to introduce the site. Looking back, it’s amazing how true to form that I’ve kept the mission of this site all these years later as proposed in the first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: about wordpress, anniversary, birthday, camera on the road, cameraontheroad, community, css, happy birthday wordpress, history, how to use wordpress, israel, Lorelle-on-WordPress, site history, stories, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress community, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress help, wordpress history, wordpress irc, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
January 23, 2013 – 6:45 pm
February 18 – March 25, you will find me teaching “Writing for the Web” for Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education on Mondays from 1:30-4:30PM in the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon. Come join me! This is the first class of its kind at the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Blogging News, Blogging Tips, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: announcements, blog news, blogging news, clark college, classes, education, events, how to use wordpress, learn wordpress, news, web publishing, web publishing help, web writing, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, workshops, writing for the web |
January 18, 2013 – 4:26 am
Welcome to the first “Random Editing Day” as part of the Blog Exercises series. The purpose of Random Editing Day is to help you edit and upkeep your site, but also to revisit and revise posts of the past. Throughout this year we are going to have monthly editing exercises to help you flex your […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises
| Tags: archives, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog writing, Blogging Tips, editing, how to blog, how to edit, past posts, random edit day, random editing day, spelling, web publishing, web writing, writing tips |
December 2, 2012 – 3:36 pm
WordPress.com users were greeted with a new Media Manager over the weekend. This is the new media uploader coming in WordPress 3.5 when it releases December 5, 2012. For most of us, this is a long-awaited, dream come true. The clunky WordPress Image Uploader is gone, replaced with one more visual and easy-to-use. The announcement […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress Tips, WordPress News
| Tags: WordPress News, wordpress upgrade, video, multimedia, images, image management, wordpress uypdate, media uploader, media, wordpress media, wordpress media manager, media manger, audio, wordpress playlist, playlist editor, wordpress images, mangaing images |
September 26, 2012 – 12:18 pm
Starting October 16, 2012, I’m teaching the Introduction to WordPress at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington. This is the course many of you have been waiting for – affordable and covering the basics you need to know about WordPress. The CTEC 280 Clark College WordPress Introduction course continues as a four […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, WordPress News, wordpress events, vancouver, wordpress classes, clark college, learning wordpress, washington, wordpress education, wordpress course, wordpress basics |
September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am
Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, Web Browsers, Web Wise
| Tags: analytics, anonymous, browser add-on, browser plugin, browsers, dnt, do not track, duckduckgo, filter bubble, google, google search, legal, mobile apps, pagerank, policies, privacy, privacy statement, privacy violation, search directory, search engine, security, seo, serp, tracking, web analytics, web browsers |
September 17, 2012 – 12:42 pm
For the past few months, rumors were flying that WordPress was going to remove the Links/Blogroll feature of WordPress. As of August 2012, it is now gone from many WordPress.com. MacManx, Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com, recently stated: The Links section was removed from the core WordPress.org software, which means that it will probably be removed […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogroll, blogroll pages, custom menus, edit blogroll, export blogroll, export links, google, how to use wordpress, import blogroll, import links, link categories, link lists, link manager, link recommendations, link resources, links, links pages, lists, managing links, menus, pagerank, pages, recommendations, resources, seo, sidebar widgets, widgets, wordpress, wordpress 3.5, wordpress help, wordpress links, wordpress pages, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
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