How Is Your Blog Coming Along?

[Boogie]

Curious as to how people are coming along that have been inspired by this forum or by my tutorial to get started.

How goes it?

[blind]

Your tutorial inspired me to do a blog. I was thinking about it for some time, but your tutorial was something like a kick in the ass I'm thinking about the ways to get additional traffic (I get 70 uniques daily and slowly growing)

[Boogie]

Hey blind, its a good start. I've checked back at your blog a few times and am pretty impressed with how its going over there. It looks good. I think with a few more link swaps you'll be finding your traffic will grow a bookmark base pretty fast. I'm glad its coming along nice for you. Also glad to see that poll you installed, its definately a great way to get people to come back to your site if they like voting or want to see the results.

I'll be watching you!

[Boogie]

oh hey blind I forgot to mention I've added um, a link to your blog in my link swaps section. I figured you're about ready for some hits. i probably wont send very much though yet

I'll add an article about you soon when you're ready for a few more hits though email me via the contact form in my sig to chat about it

[blind]

Hi Boogie, damn i didn't see you added me to your link swap section (Adding yours right now to mine)
Of course we can talk about the article and some other stuff. I can email or you can hit me via ICQ - 263014652

[Toni KatVixen]

I've had mine on LiveJournal for about 3 years & that does pretty well. I will be keeping that one after I switch over to the wordpress for my site, I just have way too much invested there.

I'm slowly learning how to get the wordpress set up the way I want it around my other projects. It a huge difference on learning.

I'm probably going to start posting there to get something going in the way of content while adjusting it.

[Ramster]

I'm excited to get it started

[Torn Rose]

I'm enjoying it. At least the writing part, can't say I am enjoying the plugin or figuring out how to make things work part.

It was mentioned to not ask people for link trades until you have posted some, what do you think is a good amount of post before you ask for trades?

[Boogie]

Hey torn.

Unless its someone I trust or know personally I generally wont link with a blog that isnt 30 days old or so... make sure they're not the type to get burned out. with good folks from this board though, exceptions are made. Hit me up via my contact form mate.

katvixen, did you see my post in my linkswap thread? I added your link to boogie-blog.com

Torn if you need help icq me mate.

[Toni KatVixen]

Originally Posted by Boogie

katvixen, did you see my post in my linkswap thread? I added your link to boogie-blog.com

Yep, got you linked on my LJ & on my new wordpress blog. Thanks hon.

[Torn Rose]

yeah.... funny.... hahaha.....


















no one loves me.....

[docholly]

Well i have a different blog for everything.. my LJ which started out as a personal one gets so much traffic that i turned it into a semi porn blog tho i still RANT away. But its my #1 referrer so I guess its working.

My biggest problem is that i'm a huge fan of originality so i don't like to cross post and prefer to write new in each one, which sometimes causes lags on the updates.

But otherwise blogging for dollars is alive and well.

Took me long enough as it's just over a year old. Now I just have to find more free time to play with my 3d stuff hehe..

Ahhhh nothing like converting the non-believers.. YEARS of arm twisting and poking in the ass with a big stick to get you to blog.
"no i don't want to" "what will i write about" "i can't" ...

[Tart]

Originally Posted by docholly

...
....YEARS of arm twisting and poking in the ass with a big stick to get you to blog.
"no i don't want to" "what will i write about" "i can't" ...

You'll be keeping that big stick away from my ass when you can't find me cause i'm off blogging.. I just registered a domain for a brand new one

[swedguy]

After roughly 2 weeks into the test I'm convinced

What I really have to overcome now is my writing block.
I can have the best of both worlds. I just bring pen and paper to the beach. Hangout in the sun with my feet in the water with a pen and paper in my hand writing todays update. I like

[Torn Rose]

Writing is easy for me, if I ever get writers block I can make fun of greenguy or something.

Scripts on the other hand I am starting to get pissed at, I tried to download Toni's LJ and once again, the directions are 1/2 assed.

Boogie no worries on the 30 days thing, I do not blame you for that rule, but I will hit you up on ICQ tonight after the audio show.

[Tart]

Mine's going much better, mainly because I'm getting a bit more focus going on. Took me long enough as it's just over a year old. Now I just have to find more free time to play with my 3d stuff hehe..

This forum is helping me "blog network".. webmasters I recognize and would allow to trackback/comment on mine and hopefully let me do the same. Haven't had time to mess with any additional plugins, but reading about Torn being attacked by the smilies was pretty funny

[Toni KatVixen]

I'm tickled pink right now. Torn figured out a few things for our links with the template I wanted to use & that helped me to set up my blog the way I wanted with my personal touches & links.

Once Torn is able to import my entries from LJ, we can then make the katvixen/blog the main one on my site.

[Toni KatVixen]

Alright, got most of what I want done for it (http://www.katvixen.com/Blog/ )

Now the only thing that is bothering me about it is I'm wanting to add a personal pic/banner touch. So now I need to figure out how to do that.

I did want to ask if any one knew of a plugin where you can use avators for your posts?

Thanks

[Boogie]

Katvixen,

I do believe there is a plugin that does this. Check the http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page wordpress codex.

If you cant find one there check the wordpress support forum.

I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of plugins that do this, especially sites for multiple posters, and I've seen ones for a different avatar/iamge for each category as well. if you still cant find anything feel free to icq me.

[delirious]

Your tut was great, I started my blog about 5 days ago, im starting to get about 120+ uniques a day and its growing really fast. Also suprised at the SE attention im getting so early on

I really think im gonna love blogging, especially when some money starts rolling in

[gqgreg]

Blogging has been great, mine is a little over a month old. The traffic jumps around, but pretty decent so far, i really would love more ways to get my traffic higher. I was taught to blog by Baddog, but you can never stop learning, which is why i come here and Baddog's forum, to read up on ways to improve my blog. My blog is http://gqpics.com/blog, incase anyone is looking to swap links. You can hit me up on icq..

230380501

Boogie is the man, cut me a few breaks, and taught me somestuff too. Also, thanks for the link swap. I will contact you on something in a bit boogie. Look out for the email.

[Ann Omness]

This is kind of interesting. I looked at Greg's Porn Blog and found the same problem I have with Boogie's. The side bar links are too small for me to read. I figured it must be something Wordpress does. I disabled cascading style sheets, which moves the side bar stuff down to the bottom of the page. That made the links readable. So I looked at the style sheet to see what was there that would cause a problem for me. I'm guessing that the problem is the font. It looks like the sheet uses a font called Lucida Grande for the side bar. Since I don't have that font installed on my computer, Internet Explorer is substituting something else which displays too small for me to read.

It seems a little surprising that Wordpress would use a font that doesn't come with Windows. I always stay away from that temptation on my own websites because I don't know what it will look like to people who don't have the same font installed.

Does anybody know where I can get a free copy of the lucida grande font for Windows? I did a Google search but only found versions for the Mac and OS X, whatever that is.

[gqgreg]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

This is kind of interesting. I looked at Greg's Porn Blog and found the same problem I have with Boogie's. The side bar links are too small for me to read. I figured it must be something Wordpress does. I disabled cascading style sheets, which moves the side bar stuff down to the bottom of the page. That made the links readable. So I looked at the style sheet to see what was there that would cause a problem for me. I'm guessing that the problem is the font. It looks like the sheet uses a font called Lucida Grande for the side bar. Since I don't have that font installed on my computer, Internet Explorer is substituting something else which displays too small for me to read.

It seems a little surprising that Wordpress would use a font that doesn't come with Windows. I always stay away from that temptation on my own websites because I don't know what it will look like to people who don't have the same font installed.

Does anybody know where I can get a free copy of the lucida grande font for Windows? I did a Google search but only found versions for the Mac and OS X, whatever that is.

That is interesting, i didn't even know that. The links are readable on my computer, but i wonder if it is the same for my readers. Thanks for addressing this, Boogie, is there a way that the font can be changed to something everyone should have on their computer?

[Boogie]

gqgreg,

alter your style.css sheet. Should be able to open it up in dreamweaver and change it. I dont really know dick about style.css

Ann Omness,
thanks for this information. If you'll write us up a short step by step guide to changing that for the our templates I garuntee you'll not have a problem with it for long I'll get it fixed asap.

[gqgreg]

I agree with Boogie.