http://www.webmasterchick.com webmaster, photographer, marketing junkie - just a girl with a geeky streak Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My new passion project, an art blog, is going swimmingly and I've really enjoyed the change of pace.  That pace being slow as a turtle as I tweak every detail from fiddling with the Wordpress theme so much that it's unrecognizable from the one I initially downloaded (and still give ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/how-to-stop-tweaking-and-learn-to-love-your-blog-as-is/24 I haven't posted here for quite some time now and though few and far between posts are not unusual for me, this time it's not because I'm just too busy with "real" work to keep up over here; no, this time it's because I'm simply feeling burned out. People talk a ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/burn-out/23 I don't post here very often, as it is with a lot of my little projects. I set up the WebmasterChick.com domain to use for my email, since I was collecting too many different email addresses on various domains. I thought it would be a good place to ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/scheduling-work-time/22 Whether you're a blogger who's interested in acting or zebras, if you publish a Wordpress blog and want to learn how to make money fast, you should check out this fantastic list of AdSense plug-ins on Mashable. What's Wordpress? Like thousands of other bloggers, I use Wordpress to publish my blog sites, ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/how-to-make-money-fast-using-wordpress/20 I'm always interested in ways to motivate myself to work harder, form good habits or otherwise establish routines that increase my productivity so I have more free time that's actually free.  Spending a day at the beach while my growing To Do list keeps popping into my mind is not ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/dont-break-the-chain/19 I'm blowing the dust off this site and started with a little housecleaning - upgrading to the new version of Wordpress and switching to a new theme at the same time.  Still lots of tinkering for me to do to make this one customized enough to really fit the site, ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/new-wordpress-theme/17 PC World did a fantastic review piece on their experiences signing up for & then trying to cancel several different web services, from NetZero to NetFlix.  There's nothing I hate more than the misleading & deceptive offers internet companies inundate surfers with.  They make it hard for honest companies to do business over ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/just-cancel-the-account/16 I'm still testing out Windows Live Writer myself & so far enjoying it, but have a few issues I've yet to resolve: 1) Easy tags.  There are some tag plug-ins for WLW, but they appear to involve editing a WordPress file & since I have 5 blog accounts (& counting), I'm putting ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/still-live-writer/15 No, it wasn't peace, love or understanding, but Sirius Satellite Radio .  The holidays mean long drives for me so it couldn't have come at a better time.  Driving from the city out to the rural farming area where my grandmother lives there is a noticeable lack of decent radio ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/the-best-present-i-got-this-year/14 As much as I love WordPress, I loathe the admin interface for creating new blog posts. I don't particularly enjoy using any on-line services to update my blogs after too many years of losing posts by accidentally hitting the back button or due to a dropped net connection when ... http://www.webmasterchick.com/battle-of-the-blog-editors/8