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Hot Links – Episode 2!

Time for this weeks hot links. This week I have been working hard on the research for my photography blog. It’s amazing how I can have a specific question I want an answer to, and I am able to find a blog post that deals with it. I have been thinking about blog design and [...]

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How To Choose A Blog Topic

This is the first of a series of articles following the process I am using to start a new blog, and to try and build it up into a successful blog. If you would like to follow this process then you may like to subscribe to my RSS feed. Do you find it difficult to choose [...]

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Creating a Blog Case Study

Over the last couple of months as I have mentioned before, I have wanted to branch out and start another blog. Seeing as I had decided to do this, I thought it would be interesting to do something a little different with it, make it into a case study. The Case Study So over the next couple [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 1!

New Feature I am starting a new feature called Hot Links for Build a Blog. It will be posted on a weekly basis and include the best information I have found for the week. I am doing this so that the useful links and information that I share will be easier to find because they [...]

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How Important Are RSS Subscribers?

RSS Subscribers Recently I have mentioned RSS subscribers when talking about the Blog Action Day results, and I thought I would talk a little more about them. If I want people to come back and keep reading my blog, which I do I write this blog for others as well as myself. Then I think RSS [...]

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So How Did Blog Action Day Go?

I have been following the results of Blog Action Day, were we as bloggers able to highlight the issue of the environment and bring it to everyone’s attention! It’s been fascinating to see it’s effect. What was it like seeing so many posts about the same topic? I do sometimes notice that bloggers can have [...]

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Blog Action Day – Environment

Blog Action Day Today is Blog Action Day where as many blogs as possible are going to write a post about the environment to do with their blog topic. With the hope that as bloggers we can come together and all highlight the issue, by writing a post about it and hopefully raising the awareness of [...]

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To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?

This is part of a series of posts about Wordpress, you may like to take a look at the others, here they are: Blogging Platforms – Which one to choose! Who else has trouble choosing a host? How to Install Wordpress Themes and Plugins? What are the best features of Wordpress? You may have heard that Wordpress has released an [...]

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Do You Find Little Gems While Surfing?

While reading through some other blogs this week I came across two posts that really jumped out at me. The best articles and blogs that I have found have all been by accident when I‘ve just been reading and come across something, if I actually try to find something I can never find what I [...]

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What Are The Best Features Of Wordpress?

My Top 3 Features of Wordpress? I have been using Wordpress (.org) since July this year and I thought I would share my 3 favourite features of Wordpress with you. I have found Wordpress very easy to use, although I have had some experience of using a blogging platform before over at Blogger, and was therefore [...]

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