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100 posts in 2009? Can I do it?

By ~LS~ On December 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Blogging

Fonts and Fontburner for WordPress

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

October 7, 2009 update: I returned to FLIR. I didn’t notice much of a different in pageload time and I there’s only one or two fonts available from Fontburner that I actually like. So, yay, it’s back to Freehand 471 for me!

Today I changed fonts. I went from Freehand 471, which I really like, to a font called Inkydinky. Silly name, but then most fonts have silly names. I changed because I was playing around with Fontburner and it seemed quicker and less taxing than FLIR, which is what I was previously using. I didn’t like the way that FLIR loaded up the headings’ default font and then switched over to the fancy font. I thought the pages looked sort of blinky. Fontburner stores the fonts for your WordPress site on their server. Unfortunately, Fontburner’s server appears to be slow and their font choices [...]

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Widgets, apps, plugins, and other lovely things

By ~LS~ On October 8, 2009 · 1 Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

I love widgets, apps, plugins, and add-ons. I don’t know why I get such a kick out of these little programs, but I do. On facebook? Not so much. But on other things, yes. I am seriously considering getting a Blackberry or iPhone or some such device just so I can get more apps. So here’s a list of my apps and things:

WordPress:

Add This Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet (of course)
Breadcrumb NavXT (neat little breadcrumb at the bottom of the page)
Clean Options (cleans up code from deleted plugins)
Collapsible Archive Widget (accordians the month/year archive in the sidebar; this one is code-heavy and increases page-load time)
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator (I love this one; it generates the sitemap page)
Exclude Pages From Navigation (standard)
Feedburner Feedsmith (standard)
FLIR for WordPress (the thing that changes my font; also increases page-load [...]

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Better blogging

By ~LS~ On July 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In How to do stuff, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

In preparing for revamping Vox and She-blog, I read a lot about blogging and what I should do to improve my blog and site. I’ve learned a lot and hopefully my future blogging will reflect that. There are some obvious problems with my old site and my old blog on blogspot – I’ve just never really bothered with them. The coding and design on them suck. I never took the time to deal with validation, cross-browser, or monitor size issues. When blogger went to the new blog format, I could never get my site to look right and I didn’t want to learn how because it was so annoyingly complicated. Whatever. It’s a new era.

In addition to these obvious mistakes, I learned about some other blogging conventions that I violate. It’s funny that there are now “rules” about how to blog and what makes a good blog. [...]

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Momentous Blogging Occasion

By ~LS~ On June 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

Writing is difficult for me. This is my 401st blog entry. Made possibly only because I spent an afternoon transferring old blog entries from my archives and journals. But this is still a big deal for me. I have never been good at journaling. I’ve always wanted to be good at it, but it’s never worked out for me. I love to buy journals to write in. I have many beautiful, elegant, -empty- journal books. I also have a stack of journal books with maybe only five or six entries in them.

The most successful journaling I did was when I was trying to work through my writing block. I read a book, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, about dealing with creative blocks. Like most self-help books, this book comes with a whole array of accompanying workbooks, inspirational CDs, blah blah blah. But, the book came highly recommended, [...]

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Same as it ever was – Adventures Updating Voxygen

By ~LS~ On May 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Computer, Goals, Gratitudes, Voxygen

I have been neck deep in Dreamweaver and learning CSS. Well, not really learning as much as hacking the template I found. I have something of a template put together. I’m not done with it and I think Willow probably needs to take a look at it to straighten some of it out. One thing that really helped me was installing this great Foxfire plug-in called Firebug, which lets you examine the source code of a website with greater ease and detail than the generic “view page source” button. I’m rather proud of what I’ve accomplished so far, though. I’m having some trepidation about converting the style sheet to fit blogger, though.

I have decided to buy Willow her own domain so that she can use that instead of using a subdomain of Voxygen. I didn’t know I could do that, but apparently I can! I get to have [...]

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