Blog Software – Moving from Serendipity to WordPress

I made up my mind. I like to tinker with the pages too much to use Serendipity as my blog software package. Drawing on the Web has been a WordPress blog since the beginning. But, I have several other blogs running Serendipity. The “Smarty Templates” for all user-interaction displays may be neat from a developer [...]

Getting Traffic to Your Web Site, part 2

One of the best ways to get traffic is to trade links with other sites. To get started, you don’t have to spend a lot, maybe not even spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. By exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. [...]

Computer Tips Site & Newsletter

Be sure to visit my Terry’s Computer Tips web site. In addition to all the good tip articles on the site, I publish my Terry’s Computer Tips Online Newsletter there. Of course, if you subscribe to my Terry’s Computer Tips Email Newsletter, you’ll get announcements when the new online newsletters are posted, get additional content [...]

Why blog?

There are a number of reasons that people create blogs. They may want to share information. They may want to rant and rave in public. They may want to help others. They may like the ease of setting up blogs instead of more traditional web sites. They may use them as commercial tools to sell [...]

The Power of (Mis-)Spelling

In our early days at school, we were taught to spell words correctly. In the good old days, we “sounded out” the syllables of written words in order to figure out the sound of the word. Then, we studied and were quizzed on the correct spelling of the words we learned. Now, you’re older. What [...]

Testing an image posting in WordPress

This was a fun shot in the back yard early last year. This section of older fence spent the mornings in the shade of a large oak tree and only got direct sun for two or three hours a day. This is one of a photo series that is posted on my general topics and [...]