Between email, forums, chats, and all the other methods of communication available today, we are inundated with words. Okay, I’m inundated. Overwhelmed. Frustrated. Over 10 years ago when just enough people were online and had email, the need to spread jokes and idiot babble via email started. Eventually, email spam got into the act. At […]
February 20, 2015 – 10:22 pm
In the assignment for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today and over the weekend, you are to work on preparing images for uploading to WordPress. You will be adding a variety of images to your WordPress test site such as images to accompany your posts and Pages, portraits, images for galleries, design elements, sidebar […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: attachments, graphic programs, graphic software, graphics, image attachments, image preparation, images, learn wordpress, media, multimedia, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress images, wordpress media, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 6, 2015 – 5:30 am
To participate in Lorelle’s WordPress School, you will need a test site to experiment and play on. This is a site that is not accessible and viewable by the general public, your private playground to experiment and break your WordPress site, but accessible by anyone with a link to the site, which makes it great […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: experimental site, learn wordpress, test site, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress test environment, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, wordpress.com site |
February 4, 2015 – 4:29 am
We’ve covered WordPress posts and Pages, the core content elements associated with a basic WordPress site. Today we are going to focus on posts, specifically how they are organized and structured within a WordPress site. Categories are your site’s Table of Contents. Tags are your site’s index words. Honestly, it is that simple. Think of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: categories, learn wordpress, site organization, tags, wordpress categories, wordpress content, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tags, wordpress tutorials |
January 24, 2015 – 4:15 am
I was one of the first asked to write and publish a text book on WordPress. I worked with the BIG NAME text book publishing company for months to create a structure and outline for WordPress users. As a long-time WordPress user, WordPress Codex contributor and editor, WordPress support forums volunteer, developer, designer, and WordPress […]
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
September 24, 2013 – 4:28 am
In the September 20, 2013, issue of the New York Times, an article caught my eye called “No Comments.” It is also available on Umano via mobile app or desktop for a listen. The article by Michael Erard discusses comments on the web, including a long look back at the history of interactivity on the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, blog history, blogging history, comments, communication, history, history of comments, history of the web, interactivity, social, social web, trackbacks, usenet |
September 5, 2013 – 4:35 am
In his native UK, Sir James Dyson is known as much for his quirky looking, superior-functioning vacuum cleaners as for his long embattled path to commercial success. He gave Brits their first bagless vacuum in 1993 after 13 tough years tinkering in the tool shed. He slogged through 5,127 prototypes, a couple of lawsuits and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips
| Tags: blog exercises, blogging, blogging is hard work, blogging success, Blogging Tips, determination, failure, hard work, how to blog, inspiration, james dyson, motivation, success, thomas edison, web publishing |
The web world thinks my birthday is January 1. Does the web know your birthday? Among the many Blog Exercises so far this year, I’ve mostly focused on your blog. Today, I want to talk about something related to your blog but mostly to your exposure and presence on the web: your private and personal […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
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One of the challenges of family history blogging and many other narrative forms of blogging is to decide what story to tell and how to tell it on your blog. The same applies to the life story or tale you wish to share on your site. Let me take the example of one of my […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: angle, biography, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, family history, history, how to blog, how to write, howard west, interview, military, personal life, perspective, stories, storytelling, web writing, Writing, writing for the web |
In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, WordPress Tips, Writing |
Does your site look spammy? How would you know whether or not your site looks spammy? It’s time for a spam check. Web design is hard, especially if you aren’t an expert. Yet, in many ways you are an expert if you are a fan of the web. You’ve seen enough sites to know the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress
| Tags: ad links, ads, advertising, author information, blog exercise, blyine, bold, colors, contact, content, content design, content development, cookie-cutter designs, design elements, expectations, instinct, italic, links, professional web designs, promotion, self-promotion, site colors, spam, spam sites, spammy sites, template designs, too many ads, trust, ugly web designs, ugly websites, underlines, Web Design, websites, wordpress, Writing |
February 21, 2013 – 4:59 am
“It’s dated 2008. It must be useless.” This was the response to an article I tweeted out recently. Yes, the article was dated 2008. Did that mean it wasn’t a valid, timely, and invaluable resource? It was, but that’s not the point. Some people equate old with useless. With the aging population gaining the majority […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog editing, blog exercises, blog maintenance, clean up old posts, edit, editing, editing posts, maintenance, management, most popular, most popular posts, popular posts, random editing day, site maintenance, site management, statistics, stats, Writing, writing for the web |
February 5, 2013 – 4:23 am
What does your byline say about you? Is it your name? Your identity? Or is it admin? The byline is the author name, the name of the person who presumably wrote and published the article, who the article is “by.” In traditional media, this is a coveted credit. In traditional newspapers, a byline was a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: anonymous, author, blog exercise, blog exercises, blogger identity, Blogging Tips, byline, credit, display name, identification, identity, name, who are you, Writing |
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 |
From the World of Lorelle
Blog Exercises: To Comment or Not to Comment
In the September 20, 2013, issue of the New York Times, an article caught my eye called “No Comments.” It is also available on Umano via mobile app or desktop for a listen. The article by Michael Erard discusses comments on the web, including a long look back at the history of interactivity on the […]