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Tag: Blogging 101

  • Blogging 101…alles Fertig !!!…Done and dusted !!!

    Blogging 101 is finished at last …HUSSAR !!! it’s been a real journey through the world of IT and the WordPress platform in particular (well…for a technophobe like me it has !!) I’ve been frustrated …a lot…despondent…a lot, and Ive learned a lot, but the biggest thing that has happened is that I’ve met a…

  • Blogging 101…Task 13… Try another ‘Event’

    In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Half and Half.” Well I struggled mightily to find an ‘event’ congruent with my own blog, searching for two days, off and on, (after all we do need to break in order to eat sleep etc…in desperation I chose to do what I thought to be…

  • Blogging 101…Task 12… 6 views and 4 comments…

    Task 12 was to look at 6 other blogs that were using the same prompt as me and comment on what was written … Easy peasy, though looking for the blogs took some effort as not many bloggers chose to write about the same prompt as I chose … still, it’s done and only one…

  • Blogging 101…Task 11…Make a ‘Prompt’ personal…

    In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt:    “Let It Be.           “A restaurant that removed your favorite item from the menu, a bad cover of a great song… Write a post about something that should’ve been left untouched, but wasn’t. Why was the original better? <a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/let-it-be/”>Let It Be</a>…

  • Blogging 101…Task 10… Improve your Blogroll…

    Hello fellow Bloggers…task 10 done and dusted… This time the task was quite an easy one for an ageing technophobe like yours truly. I’ve settled for 20 blogs as I feel any more would be a little unruly to handle…but…that’s not to say other blogs are not worthy of my mention/follow..far from it. I have…

  • Blogging 101…Task 9…An inspired post…

     A post that inspired me … well where do I start ? so many of the bloggers 101 have inspired me with their literary skills and the ability to string words together in a way that grips you, along with the everyday kind of life full of pain, recovery, idealism, love and happiness…it has been…

  • Blogging 101…Task 8…Commenting on other Blogs

    Well…still on catch up….Since I retired, it makes me wonder how the devil did I ever fit WORK into my life ?? Where does the time go?? I think I know the answer to that one..it just goes by quicker, like a roller coaster going downhill it picks up speed… Commenting on four other Blogs…

  • Blogging 101…Task 7… Headers and backgrounds…

    Well Peeps, I really feel a bit of a fraud. The reason being I’ve been asked to fiddle with a layout (Backgrounds and Headers) that I really like…I don’t want to change it, I LOVE it as it is. I really did chop and change when I was first building my ‘Blogosphere’ and the one…

  • Blogging 101…Task 6…Make an Irresistible “About” Page

    OK…How irresistible do you want me to be ? … How irresistible CAN I be ?  Do I WANT  to be irresistible ? It would be nice to have an ‘About’ page that readers could find irresistible, but I don’t think for a minute I could write anything, a few lines even, that would make me…

  • Blogging 101…Task 4 … Focusing on your audience

    After this post I will have caught up and be on track with the majority of 101’ers, so let’s crack on and do the deed…. I’ve thought long and hard about this post…well, for the last hour anyway, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t think about a specific audience for the blog,…