WordPress Issues

I Wish I Knew CSS

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I found a handful of WordPress themes and tried to install them on my blog but unfortunately, all of them seemed like they have something wrong with them! I know I am a fuss pot but then I think I have sieved through 80% of the available WordPress themes to date and have installed more than 50 different themes on my various WordPress blogs and yet I could not find one that is perfect.

If I have CSS knowledge, it would be easier for me to modify the themes but CSS is worse than Chinese for me so I would have to ask for help but the only person who will unwillingly help me has gone to Qatar and will not have access to the internet at long intervals. I feel bad even bothering him with something like making my blog pretty.

After one year, I have gone bored with this template and I want three columns! Gah! Somebody, anybody, please help me!!!

General

Memorable Weddings

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That day, I wrote a post on taking candid shots at wedding reception and dinner. Well, I remember taking one photo of very beautiful wedding flowers during a wedding of a relative and it was so nice that bridal couple had the photo enlarged and framed.

A cousin of mine decided not to throw a wedding dinner when he married his bride because he said that it is very expensive to do so. Well, I think that it would not be expensive if we know where to source for items required for a wedding reception and dinner.

In the case of flowers, I know that couples are buying them in bulk, thus saving a chunk of money compared to buying them from retail florists. Well, a little savings here and there go a long way in giving us more worth for our money.

Blogging

Not Migrating

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Two months ago, I thought that I would be moving my sub-domain blogs to their own domains. Now, I think that it would be too much trouble and it is not worth my time. I think that should I want blogs with my own domain and not sub from others, I may just as well START new ones and not migrate.

That’s why I am not going to move anything and blog as is here and on my other blogs too. I have also thought of moving my free hosted blogs from the free hosts to my own paid hosting but then I don’t think I will do so. If I have the time and mood to move anything at all, I may as well start fresh blogs and leave my existing posts alone.

Taking up too much time is one concern, having to beg for help is another. I loathe that instead of showing me how to do things and teaching me, there are people who would ask me to READ and research on the web. Well, I am someone who would only ask for help AFTER I have done my reading and still not understand it. Call me blur, call me stupid. I just don’t have a technical mind. So?

Computing & Internet

User-friendly Websites

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Not too long ago, I wrote a post on a local company and that brought me so much traffic for MONTHS. I think the reason is that people would like to have more information on the services offered by this company BUT this company has a website that is so flash intensive but really, it has no information that people want.

I have been to the site time and again because I am their customer and I sometimes need more information as well but after wasting time waiting for the flash to load, the music to play and stuff, I surf around without getting the information that I seek.

You know, ten out of ten times I would be forced to call up their customer service centre. Luckily, they do have a rather good team of people working the customer service front and would answer all my questions thoroughly. That’s their saving grace!

General

Subscribing to Denver Magazine

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The other day, I wrote about a company that provides discounted annual subscription to popular magazines. Today, I was reminded of another magazine that is open for subscription and they are charging $29.99 per year or $49.99 for two years.

A long time ago, I went to the website of Denver Magazine and today, I had the chance to check out their website again and I saw that they have revamped their website. It is so refreshing now.

Although this magazine is called Denver Magazine, I understand that people from other states also enjoy reading it. My sister is also a subscriber, thanks to a subscription gift from a colleague, and she said that there’s plenty to read even though she has no particular interest in Denver, living in Tennessee herself!

I think that $29.99 is so affordable for a year of a good read. Don’t you think so?

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How Fast Can I Type?

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I have so many posts to type I wonder how many words I can type per minute. I know that while I could type fast, I need IDEAS to blog on also. A friend told me that she would have to stay up tonight to complete her blogs but then blog about WHAT?

I was told of a website which will calculate the speed of our typing but each time I tried that, I was so self-conscious that I typed way too many errors.

Even when I can type fast and I can spell, I don’t know what is wrong with my fingers, untrained, unprofessional kind of typing that I will ALWAYS get that handful of words WRONGLY.

Why is that so? I talked to a friend about it and she says that she has the same problem. I think that the keys should be moved to accommodate our individual typing LOL

Blogging

No More Minimum PR3?

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A friend told me that she has received an assignment from a company that all along only wanted minimum PR3 for their database of bloggers. My friend’s blog fell to a big fat zero and yet she received this assignment. JELES JELES JELES LOL

Now, the funny thing was that not only did she receive an assignment on her PR0 blog, she received TWO assignments for the same advertiser on the same blog.

I think this network is screwed up too. They may keep harping they only accept minimum PR3 but when the majority of bloggers who want to blog for money have their blogs adjusted unnaturally to a big fat zero, what can he do but to distribute jobs to all these people, right? Do you think that they could afford to wait till new bloggers sign up with them? I don’t think so.

If you stick around long enough, perhaps you will also receive a surprise assignment from a company that sends out assignments in Greek that you would have to read three times to understand what they want!

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