The I Follow “D-list”
Eve of HomeBizBlogger added me to the D-list of those who have installed the "Do Follow" plugin. This is another opportunity to share the link-love. Obviously there are now a zillion people I could add to this list because of the great response that's still pouring in...
The I Follow “Movement”
I decided I'd like to have something in my sidebar indicating to my future readers that I've turned off the nofollow in my comments, and I thought others might be interested as well. So, I've set up a page that has the little logo you see to the right in several...
Something’s fishy about SiteMeter
I've been considering trying out SiteMeter lately. I'm glad I didn't. Turns out they have entered into an agreement with SpecificMedia to store tracking cookies on the computers of those visiting sites tracked by SiteMeter so they can sell your browsing history to...
5 Reasons Why I Blog
I've been tagged by Brian Gardner to write about the 5 reasons I blog. I have 4 different blogs that all have different purposes, so my reasons for blogging may be slightly different depending on whether I'm talking about my personal blog, monetized blogs or this...
A CSS flyout menu that works in Firefox AND IE
I thought it would be easy to find. All I needed was some CSS that would generate a nice vertical flyout menu for a site I'm developing. Turns out that's not such an easy request. I googled around and found several different menu systems that looked great in Firefox,...
How to show your most popular posts in the sidebar
As I'm working towards making my sites "stickier", I've been looking around for a good plugin to show the post popular posts in the sidebar. I found an excellent plugin/widget combination that has been easy to use and has provided me with a lot of really interesting...
Link generously – you will reap what you sow
Be generous with links. What do you have to lose? Nothing. “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." ~ John Wesley I've been...
My first guest post
My first guest post ever is up at The Blog World. It's about how to keep your readers coming back by doing some digging to find out what they're most interested in reading. Check it out! Thanks for your comments on previous posts Char, Leah, Easton, David, Cory and...
5 new tools of the trade (well, new to me at least)
Here are some tools I found this week that I thought you'd be interested in: When one is laying out a site for a client, and want to put in some sample text, the standard practice for professional designers is to put in "Lorem ipsum" text so that the reader "will be...
I got SOAPed
I participated in the SOAP project that was the brainchild of Easton Ellsworth. My blog was reviewed by Leah of Working Solo, and I am very appreciative of her input. Below is her input and some comments I have in response: Make your RSS subscription button more...