Footprints on the Mountainside

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Not that I’m incapable of writing tomes myself, but I’m info hungry. So if there is something that will gather loads of relevant info for me, nothing like it. I think the strength of this service is in research. Of course, they say that they will help you write your thesis too. In fact, there’s a page with rates for a variety of stuff they can do for you including powerpoint presentations, papers at various educational levels, and what not. Sounds like a pretty tempting source of organized information, if you’re a freak for enormous quantities of well-researched data to pull from, like me.

The husband is laughing as I show him the site. He wants to know if I’m planning to go back to school. Does he know how much research a website needs? Its like being back in school, even for subjects you know about, when you have to write about them, confirm facts before immortalizing them in your name……. sure, I could do with a research service too.

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There are people who want to pay for reviews and blogged links for their products and websites and there are companies like Review Me and PayPerPost managing this chaotic demand and supply scenario.

I see this as a great opportunity for people who want to earn some money on the side. If you have a regular blog, that’s all it takes. Even if you don’t, there are loads of free blogging services that you can start from. It is all really about how well you can write.

Some tips for those who would like to use blogging for money:

1. Be genuine. We all like to earn money, but would you pay someone for the kind of writing you are doing? Find out about what you are writing for and write with that insight, rather than churn out words to create posts.
2. Practice. There are ways to warn money from your blog - not every post has to be a paid post (this one isn’t). Write about things you genuinely like and present them in a way that tempts the reader with your perspective.
3. Practice, practice.
4. Read around. See what other bloggers are writing about. Create relationships, comment, get to know them more as people rather than quick ideas for your own work. What goes around comes around.
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6. Promote your blog. Put links in signatures on forums, emails, etc. Submit to directories, do link exchanges….. the usual.
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Its time for my sporadic obsession with the website. These days I’m trying to spruce up the entire place. I fiddled around and learned new stuff. I found this thing AjaxWP and installed it on the site. It requires a little fiddling around with the theme, but once that is done, it makes the site run much faster, as no doubt regulars here will have noticed.

Its a really neat modification, though I’d have appreciated a little more clear instructions. Newbies to code have a duty to mess up everything we touch, and I take that seriously

It took me a while to figure out that I have to create versions of my theme files for the ajax, and rename them and keep them in the same folder as the rest of the stuff. Now that I’ve figured it out, it seems kind of obvious, but until I arrived at enlightenment, I tried replacing the files, creating a separate folder, sub-folder….. you name it, I done it - all except the very obvious - just let them be where they are

Other than that, I’m reworking almost the entire site now. Trying to generally tweak things around to make them prettier, faster, read better, etc. I’m at a stage where I’m totally confused, but there seems to be emerging some kind of path through the chaos.

I’m in a somewhat “overreaching” kind of mood as usual, so I’d appreciate any comments, suggestions, complaints, etc that can help me toward better webdesign. Pleeeeease don’t wait for me to revamp the whole thing and then show some major glitch I’ve created somewhere. My abilities are rather limited.