From the category archives:

blogging & web design

Blogs without product reviews and contests

August 17, 2010

Okay, call me crazy- but are there any blogs out there anymore that aren’t promoting products? I am not at all putting down these blogs – it’s great that those of you have found a way to do something you enjoy and make some extra money at it. But I tell ya, sometimes when I [...]

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Old blog domain

April 14, 2010

For those of you who may have had me linked or saved in your feed readers at my old domain bittersweetblog.com – take note that the domain is now owned by someone else. I handed my domain over to a really nice gal who has a pretty popular blog about vegan cooking and crafts and [...]

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WordPress Automatic Upgrade

March 29, 2010

Shockingly I installed the WordPress automatic upgrade and everything updated without a single problem. Version 2.9.2 of WordPress looks totally different than the version I was using, 2.5 something or other. All it is is a plugin that you install and then activate and then click through several links that say “Next Step” and it [...]

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Blog to Book Publishing

October 12, 2009

I had mentioned how I am printing my old blog entries and I wanted to share with everyone what sites I used to accomplish this. 1. Blog Booker – First I used this site to publish my actual blog into a .pdf document. It includes photos and comments if you want it to. Unfortunately I [...]

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Not enough time in a day

October 8, 2009

Yesterday we got a phone call on our billboard/web design company phone line from a parent of a kid that Ken coached last spring. She wanted some prices on a website for her daughter’s cheer and dance teams. Non-profit of course, which means little money. I sent her a polite email today and told her [...]

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Guess who’s back…back again

October 4, 2009

Who would have ever thought I would be back to writing at Our Family Nest again? Surely not me. Can you believe I started this site back in 2002 when Chase was born? WOW. For the past couple of years I had a personal blog elsewhere on the web. It sort of turned into more [...]

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