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Blogging Pet Peeves. What are yours?

July 15, 2010
batty boys

We all love the blogosphere… it’s such a unique, user-driven content engine. Experts in their own fields offer their own stories, advice, tips and tricks of the trade. You can learn how to mistreat windows, use photoshop, make jam in 30 minutes, apply makeup like a M.A.C pro, make a herb container garden, or totally [...]

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Gravatar 101: How do I make my photo appear next to my comment?

March 24, 2010
darcy gravatar photo

Would you all do something for me? Pretty please?

Have you ever noticed in comments how some of you have your bright, smiling picture and some of you have generic quilt-looking things to represent you in your comments? Have you ever wondered how to make your photo appear next to your comments?
Gravatar 101: We want [...]

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What is a permalink? How do I find mine?

March 12, 2010
what is a permalink

If you’ve ever wanted to participate in a blog link party, this is a must-know! One of the common courtesies is to link up to the specific post rather than your whole blog. Most well-run blog link parties insist that you do.
Why does it matter? Because not all readers will discover the post while [...]

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Photographers! I interrupt this blog…

March 4, 2010
pixel happy photography theme for genesis by studiopress

I interrupt this blog for a moment a shameless self-promotion. Please forgive me, I’m just so stinking excited. But I wouldn’t post it here, if I didn’t think I could save my photography friends some serious money.
Many of you know I am a graphic designer and a photographer. I often get requests for photo [...]

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Blogging with the Mother Hen, Parte Due.

February 25, 2010
peek a boo Trouble

If you’re new to this discussion, please read: Blogging with the Mother Hen – the first post. Especially read the amazing, thoughtful comments. The real gems are contained below the post. This is my perseverantia ad finem optatum, fed by the diverse comments and opinions shared by you all.

I hope people aren’t misreading my words [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial: How do I maintain proportion and scale when I resize my images?

February 23, 2010
picasso in the snow

Have you ever been surfing the web and seen a photo like this?

There are two ways to make sure that no matter what size you make sweet little Picasso, that you keep his proportions locked so he still looks human when you’re done.
The first one is easy, and obvious. But you’d be surprised how many [...]

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Blogging with the Mother Hen

February 19, 2010
happy valentine's day card to mom

Blogging isn’t easy. Blogging consistently for 5 years is a feat of nature. Lately I’ve been silenced.
For most of the time, I’ve written fairly anonymously. I use my real first name, but I’ve given my children pseudonyms to protect them from some job interview, application or future situation in which they rather not have the [...]

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Evolution. Blogging. Evolution of a blog.

January 24, 2010
icicles hang from iowa home in january

Have you ever sat down and reflected on how your blog has evolved? I bet some of you started off blogging about one thing or another and the blog sorta took on a life of its own, right? Yeah, me too.
2010 (did you say twenty-ten or two-thousand-ten?) is 5 years blogging for me. [...]

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Why is everyone moving to Wordpress? Should I move?

December 10, 2009
should I move from Blogger to Wordpress?

**updated 3/5/10**
Many of you have seen your favorite blogs move recently. Kimba moved, Sandy moved, Rhoda moved, Alli moved, and the cat is out of the bag – Nester will be moving soon (I am almost done with her blog, she has been working *very* hard behind the scenes!) . I’m sure [...]

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The FTC Shtuff: a real-life pretend example.

October 7, 2009

Real-life pretend. *snort*
This post is in reaction to my earlier post.
I have gotten quite a few confused emails, especially from hobby bloggers who do product reviews. I will try to clarify to the best of my understanding, using a real-life pretend example.
The part that’s tricky, in my opinion, is the product reviews and [...]

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Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress – My Experience

June 28, 2009

Are you considering moving your blog from Blogger / Blogspot.com to Wordpress? Here is my experience with blog migration.
I bought this domain back in November 2008 and made the move in June 2009, so it wasn’t an overnight experience. That said, it doesn’t need to take 7 months either. I was dragging [...]

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To Ad or not to Ad. That is the question.

June 10, 2009

I gave a workshop today on blogging at AWI. My last point was: Should you or should you not advertise or accept PR on your blog? Looking around lwm3b you can see which decision I made. But I’ll humbly agree it’s not for every blog nor every blogger.
Turns out, very few [...]

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How to allow bloggers to respond to your comments:

June 8, 2009

Has this happened to you?

One of the most frustrating things about blogging is getting a comment or question, then having no way to respond. If you use Blogger and leave comments on blogs… please, please follow these steps to make sure bloggers can respond to you! I did a post not long ago [...]

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10 Blogging Mistakes

June 4, 2009

Are you making any of these blogging blunders? Originally posted in 2008, this post remains one of the highest points of entry here on Life with My 3 Boybarians. Hope this helps you. Would love to hear what you think are the biggest blogging blunders. Here are my top 10:
1. Being totally anonymous.It isn’t [...]

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Go Do this. Right Now.

February 26, 2009

How to allow people to reply to your comments on Blogger.
I’m putting on my bossy pants. So if you have a blogger / blogspot / Google account to comment on Blogger blogs, y’all better follow along.
1. Open up a new window. That’s Ctrl-N if you’re on a PC, [...]

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Then Vs. Than

October 9, 2008

So this one is actually pretty simple! Good news, right?!
While some English rules can be confusing, this is a homophone issue. Although, I’ll argue that then and than are not true homophones, as there is a slight pronunciation difference.
Then and than sound alike in rapid speech, which lends itself to [...]

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How to Make Sure People Don’t Leave You Comments

September 26, 2008

Comment love. Blog crack. Feedback. Suga’.
That which we call a comment By any other name would read as sweet.
In the blogosphere, comments are the commodity. The best way to show someone you appreciate their thoughts is?
Yes, let them know.
Acknowledging a person’s time, talent, humor, deep [...]

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Ahhhhh, Grammar: Ten Little Rules

June 3, 2008

The class was tough. We had to give persuasive speeches. We had to learn the parts of speech. We had to diagram sentences. This, I thought, was surely the stupidest thing I had ever done in my 12 precocious years. I was forced to make pointless trees and lines with [...]

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Blog Bloat: CONTENT #3

May 24, 2008

So far we’ve tackled tags and a little about sidebar bloat. This time I’d like to talk about content.
Human culture has a funny way of creating nuances, manners or etiquette. And you can go into an entire argument about how arbitrary and pointless it can be. But it boils down to this… [...]

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Blog Bloat: SIDEBAR CONTENT #2

May 18, 2008

I loved all the feedback and admissions of guilt from some of you in my comments. Too too funny! I visited each and every one of you and I have to say – those were some fine tags. My applause! And thank you to my friends who come for the 4th [...]

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Blog Bloat: TAGS #1

May 15, 2008

Is your blog feeling a little… bloated?
I have a multi-post series planned about blogging and the blogosphere in general. Because I’m like a total expert. Or not. Look out Kathie Lee! Moms are going to blog. So, maybe I can help… a little. Not like we took a [...]

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