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Lorelle has been blogging since before blogging was a term. Starting on USENET and CompuServer forums, she shared her expertise, stories, and training programs with thousands, now millions from around the world. This category includes a variety of tips aimed at blogging in general. For more specific blogging help and information, see Writing, Blog Babble about bloggers and web publishers, Blog Challenge to help you improve your blogging skills and website, Blog Struggles on the challenges of a full-time professional blogger, Blogging News on the industry, and WordPress Tips for information related specifically to blogging with WordPress.

Blog Exercises: Which Stats Matter

September 15, 2017 – 4:20 am

In this ongoing series called Blog Exercises, let’s explore the stats that matter, the ones you should be paying attention to on your site and off. On your site, you should be paying attention to: Most Popular Posts: Are your most popular posts related by topic? If so, there is clearly a driving interest in […]

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Blog Exercises: Blog a Conversation

September 2, 2017 – 4:19 am

In this ongoing series called Blog Exercises, today you will blog a conversation. “I don’t want to.” “Sure, you do.” “Nah. Don’t want to.” “This is a chance to improve your blogging.” “Uh-huh.” “This is a change to improve your writing skills.” “Nope.” “You will do it because I said so. Got it?” “Okay.” Writing […]

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Blogging Tools: DownThemAll Browser Add-on

June 4, 2016 – 5:19 pm

DownThemAll! Firefox Extension is another tool for your blogging toolbox. As a reminder, most power bloggers use Firefox or Chrome web browsers. Not just because they are “better” in the terms of meeting web standards, but also because of their powerful extendable features. Browser extensions, add-ons, or plugins allow you to extend the features and […]

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Blogging Tools: Jing Screen Capture and Video

May 31, 2016 – 11:28 am

One of my favorite blogging tools – okay, tool I use for teaching, writing, and research – is Jing by Techsmith. It’s a must-have tool for bloggers and blogging. Jing is free. It allows capturing still images (screenshots), basic video, and animation, and allows you to share them on the web or save them to […]

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WordPress School: Copyright Policy

May 10, 2016 – 12:55 pm

We’ve started our mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site with some basic information and details on how to organize and structure policies on your site. It’s time to evaluate the five different policies featured on almost all websites regardless of topic or goals in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. Remember, we add […]

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Blog Exercises: Define Your Community

April 6, 2016 – 4:45 am

In this Blog Exercise, it is time to start building a community around your blog. If you have one, it’s time to re-evaluate it to ensure you keep it. We will start with defining your community. Your blog topic should give you a clear indication about demographics of your online community, but it might not […]

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WordPress School: Bookmarklets and User Scripts

April 8, 2015 – 1:32 pm

In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress, we covered bookmarks and how to save a web page for later access and reading. In this tutorial, we take bookmarks a little further by exploring browser bookmarklets and user scripts, small but […]

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WordPress School: Bookmarks

April 5, 2015 – 5:22 pm

This week on Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress. So far in this Web Browser Guide series we’ve covered some web browser history, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, browser tabs, and search operators and shortcuts to help you find WordPress help as well […]

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WordPress School: Web Browsers and The Search

April 3, 2015 – 12:34 pm

Search is used in WordPress for many different purposes as you prepare, develop, implement, and launch your website, and as you continue to maintain and publish on the site. This tutorial will help you understand how to search within a web page with the web browser, search within a WordPress site, and provide helpful tips […]

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WordPress School: Browser Tabs

April 1, 2015 – 11:51 am

In my WordPress college courses, we make it a habit to have a minimum of four tabs open in the web browser before class starts, ready to start jumping into WordPress. I equate this to having my notebook of paper and pen ready to go when my teachers started teaching in school. The three tabs […]

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WordPress School: Web Browser Shortcuts

March 31, 2015 – 11:56 am

In this section of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we are exploring the web browser, our gateway to the web, and how it impacts our use of WordPress. In this tutorial you are going to learn some very basic features and functions of the web browser: The Address and Search Bar The Right Click […]

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WordPress School: Web Browsers

March 30, 2015 – 10:07 am

Do you realize we spend more time talking about the web then understanding how the main tool we use to access the web works? I think we take the web browser for granted. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to watch all those YouTube videos. You wouldn’t be able to let the world know what […]

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WordPress School: Polls and Surveys

March 26, 2015 – 2:59 pm

Coming up soon in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course is a huge section on interactivity with WordPress, learning about comments, integrating social media, social media automation, and how to encourage and support such interactivity without draining your time, energy, and emotional being. To help you get started thinking about how you can use your […]

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WordPress School: Screen Capture Images

March 25, 2015 – 1:32 pm

In this mini-series of tutorials helping you learn how to create and use graphic images in your WordPress site, we’ve covered header art images, adding text overlays to images, and made a call-to-action graphic with a link wrapped around it, all common uses of images with WordPress sites. I’ve also introduced you to the free […]

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WordPress School: Image Lessons

March 24, 2015 – 10:41 am

I’m often asked by students in the college degree programs of web development and web design how much familiarity and expertise do they need with images. “Do I need to learn PhotoShop and Illustrator?” The truth? You need to know more about images and graphic design than you would ever imagine. Web design and development […]

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