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. […]
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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 |
February 28, 2013 – 5:31 pm
We’ve completed the second month of Blog Exercises in February. Are you still with me? Here is the list. Blog Exercises: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About Blog Exercises: Honor the Past with Anniversaries and Birthdays Blog Exercises: Your Byline Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies Blog Exercises: Backlinks Blog Exercises: Category […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, blogging, Blogging Tips, how to blog, maintenance, organization, planning, schedule, site maintenance, web writing, wordpress, writing tips |
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 |
February 26, 2013 – 4:36 am
How many posts do you need to publish a year on your site? Have you counted? Do you schedule them in a way to count each post over a day, week, month, or year? At my peak, I pushed 1,975 posts a year. Yes, someone counted. The number frightened me. I had to break it […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, blog planning, calendar, content, editorial calendar, how many posts, planning, post schedule, published posts, publishing schedule, schedule, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
February 4, 2013 – 4:11 am
Every year I celebrate January 11, the birthday of WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg. The first week in April, I celebrate CSS Naked Day, a day to turn off the CSS designs on your websites world-wide to pay tribute to web designers. Later in April is the Day of Blog Silence, honoring the victims of violence […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: anniversary, birthday, blog exercise, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, calendar, dates, editorial calendar, events, honors, past, planner, planning, publishing, schedule, special events, tributes, Writing, writing for the web |
February 1, 2013 – 11:47 am
We’ve completed the Blog Exercises for January. Here is the list. Blog Exercise: Category Brainstorming Blog Exercises: What is the Name of Your Site? Blog Exercises: What’s Your Site’s Tagline? Blog Exercises: New Year’s Resolution Blog Exercises: What Do You Do? Blog Exercises: The Editorial Calendar Blog Exercises: Check Your Dates Blog Exercises: The Don’ts […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, publishing, tips, web publishing, web writing, 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, israel, Lorelle-on-WordPress, site history, stories, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress community, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress history, wordpress irc, WordPress News |
January 8, 2013 – 9:16 pm
We survived the Mayan Calendar. We’ve survived planets lining up. We’ve survived attacks on our person, our community, our faith, and our country. Just another year. As we charge forward this coming year, here are some things to look forward to here on Lorelle on WordPress and on my other sites, and many things to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, WordPress News
| Tags: activities, announcements, annual, events, happy holidays, Lorelle-on-WordPress, new year, news, plans |
December 18, 2012 – 10:44 pm
“I feel greedy.” We stood in the cold outside the Clackamas Mall, arms wrapped around each other, watching the crowd expand to release individuals and couples to step forward and place their candles on the memorial stage. The faces of the two deceased smiled over the mournful group gathered before them. The photographs were snapshots […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging
| Tags: blog writing, clackamas, clackamas mall, event, grief, grieving, guns, heal, healing, memorial, newtown, reporting, sharing, shooting, violence, Writing |
December 12, 2012 – 11:32 am
Update: This story is starting to go viral. Thank you to everyone for your support for the Portland and Clackamas, Oregon, Community in their time of need. I hope we fill the Clackamas Mall, and every mall, with as many people as possible to let all terrorists, domestic and international, know that we will not […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, Blog Babble
| Tags: event, portland, pdx, oregon, freedom, clackamas, clackamas town center, clackamas mall, shooting, mall shooting, invitation, terrorism, hope |
December 5, 2012 – 8:07 pm
In anticipation of the planets alignment, I went digging for some cool Android apps to see the stars, and some awesome astronomy blogs to keep myself updated. Let’s start with the awesome astronomy bloggers. Blogging the Stars When I think about those blogging the stars, I don’t think Perez Hilton. I think about those truly […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, Blogging News
| Tags: alignment, android, astronomers, astronomy, astronomy apps, bloggers, december 21 2012, mobile apps, planets, planets aligning, science, space, space apps, space bloggers, space blogs, star apps, star chart apps, star charts |
October 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm
According to the American Library Association, September 30 through October 6, 2012, is a salute to Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News
| Tags: arrest, ban, banned bloggers, banned blogs, banned blogs list, blocked blogs, bloggers, blogging, blogging censorship, censorship, civil rights, eff, electronic frontier foundation, freedom, freedom of speech, laws, legal, list of banned blogs, politics, speech, Writing |
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 |
August 24, 2012 – 6:48 pm
At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that unconference presentation. The Difference Between Categories and Tags I hear this question at WordCamps, from readers, students, and […]
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog writing, Blogging Tips, headings, how to blog, how to blog with WordPress, images, links, multimedia, post content, seo, what you most need to know in wordpress, wordpress, wordpress and seo, wordpress essentials, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing tips |
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