How many of you have a secret desire to one day not have to go to an office in a dreary city block, or stand before a bunch of reluctant students and look like you know what you are talking about, or cope with the other crazy drivers as you maneuver your delivery truck through [...]

Continue reading about Your Blog Can Earn You Money Part 1 - Introduction

Mal on June 19th, 2007

It is very easy to look at your blog and see that everything seems normal, but underneath the surface problems might be lurking. When was the last time you checked that everything actually works as it should?
To give an example, I have a number of older blogs that use Blogger.com. Yesyerday I was setting up [...]

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Mal on June 13th, 2007

Why do people blog? People blog for many reasons. If you wish to be seen or heard on the Internet, the easiest way to achieve this is to start a blog.
You might simply want to publicise interesting sites that you find during your web surfing. You think they deserve a wider audience and want a way [...]

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Mal on March 11th, 2007

In the earlier parts of this series we learned what a blog is, then looked at starting your first blog. This time we will actually set up that first blog using Blogger.com.
Blogger, a part of Google, is a free hosted blogging service which lets you post and manage your weblog from within your web browser. It [...]

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Mal on February 19th, 2007

There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when choosing a platform for your first blog:
 * Do I want a free blog, or do I want to pay for it
 * Do I want it hosted on a blog platform, or do I want to host it on my own website with my own [...]

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Mal on February 4th, 2007

Blogging is presently the most popular way for people to put content onto a website. To put it simply, a blog, short for weblog, is a website which has a simple interface whereby the owner can place content easily and quickly onto the site. No knowledge of coding or page design, no use of FTP [...]

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