I’ve been looking for an easy way to create websites for quite some time. But none of the software programs I tried (Mac or PC) worked the way I had hoped they would. They were cumbersome, and the end result was poor. I was elated when I discovered blogs, but you can do so much [...] Read more »
First Milestones
I’ve passed the first milestone in this NaNo contest today and am anxious to see how many more words I can churn out before I call it a night. My goal is to reach 15,000 by Sunday night. The second milestone concerns the website I built for my husband back in July. He came home [...] Read more »
Monday Round Up
As of today, we’ve lived in our house for two years. My husband and I were remarking about how fast time flies as he was telling me his latest project for the house – gutting and redoing the master bathroom. That room has been in dire need of attention long before we moved into the [...] Read more »
Creating a Website with WordPress
One of my top goals when I returned from my vacation was to crack open this book and take a shot at building my first WordPress theme. I tried to follow the author’s step-by-step instructions but got totally confused and frustrated. This section is not for the complete WordPress novice, especially if they don’t know [...] Read more »
Playing with Logos
I’ve barely begun to scratch the surface with Illustrator CS3′s bells and whistles. Last night, I played around with the 3-D feature and came up with text and shapes that resembled Word’s “Word Art.” Next, I tried fiddling with text effects and thought, “Why not try to make a logo for The Writers Buzz.” I’ve [...] Read more »
WBA is Back Online
I finally figured out how to work with MySQL to separate the database into sections in order to upload everything into the new site. Yes, it took me forever and a day, I know. I’ve yet to master pHp and MySQL. I had some major problems with the admin (getting locked out of the blog [...] Read more »
Updates
Writer’s Blog Alliance Today made up for my two weeks in Hell. The domain Finally transferred to the Namecheap site. Now, all I have to do is figure out how to transfer it over to John’s server without any more hiccups. I found an article late Saturday night that explained how to transfer your website [...] Read more »
Free Domains Aren’t So Free
I’m writing this post for those of you who don’t yet have a domain for your blogs and are thinking about getting one. You’ll find several webhosts out there who lure customers in with a free domain. I acquired the majority of my domains this way, thinking that I would save money by not having [...] Read more »
Cranky Webhosts
Last week, I had to jump through hoops to start the transfer process for WBA and thought this was going to go smoothly. I’ve never transferred a domain before, and after the crap I’ve been through the last ten days, I never want to do it again. Back in February (approx.) SBC Yahoo decided to [...] Read more »
WBA Changes Ownership
I don’t know how many of you stopped by WBA this morning. If you did, then you might have seen my announcement. If not, then I tell you here because the site went down due to a transfer process. I’ve resigned as webmaster from that site and am in the process of passing the torch [...] Read more »