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9 Reasons To Express Yourself With WordPress

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Saying nothing can be taken as negative or positive.

WordPress
Makes It Possible
To Speak Up

Everybody has something to say. Not a few, everyone! Not the smart or attractive or advantaged or educated people but every person.

That includes you.

You don’t have to think or talk like an academic to have something to say or to share it clearly. No degrees are necessary. Sometimes study hurts. Degreed individuals aren’t always easy to understand.

What To Say

What you have to say isn’t difficult to come by. It resides within and gurgles up from the inside. It seeps whether you make an intentional effort to share it or not.

The point of this post is you might as well harness it and give it expression. Be intentional. Be deliberate.

One warning though. Initially, you may be tempted to say what’s already been said and repeating it is your way of adding endorsement. That’s OK at the beginning, but eventually you need to add your thoughts. What you think is significant. [Read more…] about 9 Reasons To Express Yourself With WordPress

Create Sidebar Ads In 11 Steps With Picmonkey Collage

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Picmonkey is free, simple and powerful.

Picmonkey
Makes The Web
Visual

Picmonkey is a powerful online photo editing site that offers more than just photo manipulation. The free account is inexpensive and considerably easier to use than Photoshop.

It’s powerful too!

You can easily create infographics – I do it regularly – and with the collage feature you can add images to the infographics, like the one to the right. It’s simple! Following is how I created the sidebar image. [Read more…] about Create Sidebar Ads In 11 Steps With Picmonkey Collage

Why Develop Your Own Domain Name

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There's no such thing as maintenance and expense free.

A Domain Name
Is
A Website

I started websiting back in 2008 and my first site was a Blogger blog. I knew nothing when I started. I’ve learned a lot since.

When I began, Blogger was free and popular, and seemed like a quick way to start so it made sense to use the Blogger platform. I soon realized it wasn’t that simple. It takes just as much effort to develop a canned website as it does to select and self host your own domain name.

I also realized that it is never entirely yours or what you want.

The domain name I had in mind (thinkaboutit) wasn’t available on Blogger and whatever name I chose was followed by the words blogspot.com anyway. It was never going to be my name.

There were also no names even distantly similar. The domain name I eventually chose, taitoday, was the closest thing I could get. There was no winning!

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not badmouthing Blogger. It got me started and I’m thankful for what the experience taught me about domain names and websiting.

After becoming frustrated with the limitations, though, I did a little research and took the plunge.

I’ve also started thinking specifically about domain names and have bought a few. Following are three examples and they are for sale.

  • SplainThat.com ($218.00)
  • AskingNotSaying.com ($202.00)
  • ThinkingNotSaying.com ($197.00)

If you are thinking about starting a website and you find one of these names useful, contact me and we can go from there. Otherwise you can use a site like NameCheap to find and register a name you prefer. Registration and privacy run around $10.00. You can’t find it less expensive than NameCheap.com.

If you’re not sure, following are the options to choose from. [Read more…] about Why Develop Your Own Domain Name