As I have mentioned, several members of my family are keen bloggers, and even my wife, Mrs. Almost American, has recently taken up blogging. Being a successful blogger, however, can be more difficult than at first it appears. Here’s a quick look at a few of the things I’ve learnt in my three short months blogging concerning blog content that makes for a great blog! Continue reading »
A privacy policy on a blog… huh?
Okay, so not every blog needs a privacy policy, but its certainly something that bears some consideration…. <— those periods are my thought process coming to a screeching halt.
Let’s try that again. After thinking about it, while writing that sentence, pretty much every blog needs to address privacy and describe to its users/viewers how its going to keep their information private i.e., through an explanation provided in a Privacy Policy.
Well, while I’ve been slacking off this last week my father has been busy on his blog over a C&A’s Wild Images.
I’ll blame my absence from blogging on a reported case of Whooping Cough (Pertussis) in the Office. It a poor excuse, but since I’d been feeling under the weather last week I wanted to take every opportunity Z afforded me to rest. I eventually dragged myself to test out my new Doctor but that’s a whole other post. I did get some antibiotics and a couple of injections just in case the reported Pertussis turn out to be an actual case – I don’t need to bring anything highly infectious home to Mrs Almost American and Z. Turns out it wasn’t Whooping Cough at all and I am unfortunately have is a sinus infection! Continue reading »
As I talked briefly about a few posts back, a blog badge is a neat little graphic that you make available to other bloggers (and webmasters) so they can post it as a cool link to your blog on their own web pages.
Why would they do post this? Well, hopefully you’ve got some well written, exciting content, and a history of producing such content, that a fellow blogger/webmaster feels worthy of sharing not only a link or reference to a specific post, but one to your blog in its entirety.
As I previously mentioned Almost-American.com’s blog badge (featured right in the side-bar) was a quick little Adobe Photoshop exercise for Mrs. Almost American. The badge itself, however, is only half the story. Continue reading »
My wife, Mrs. Almost American, has been dutifully reading over my shoulder, critiquing my writing and providing an extra set of eyes to assess my theme, layout and design choices (all in addition to doing the artwork for my header image and blog badge). She now, however, tires of being a bystander to my blog and has decided to take the leap into blogging herself – albeit on my blog!
So, without further ado I’d like to introduce Mrs. Almost American. Continue reading »