For Day Ten the Blogging 101 assignment is “Build a Better Blogroll”. This is the third day with emphasis on the social aspects of blogging. Building your community is certainly essential to blogging. For me it brings up some interesting problems. There are two sides to WordPress. There is WordPress.COM with free blogs for individual…… Continue reading Searchers, Followers, and Friends
Author: LudwigKeck
Good Neighbor
Being a good neighbor and getting inspired by neighbors Participation in Blogging 101 has not only been fun and informative, it has allowed me to visit blogs that were quite new to me. I tried to visit as many of the blogs of my fellow participants as I could find time for. Some of the…… Continue reading Good Neighbor
Background
A little bit of Background Showing the background of a blog is a little bit like showing underwear, you want as little as possible seen. When it does show you want it to be pleasing and a nice complement to your personality. Well, for a blog maybe showing just a smidgen more is desirable. I have worked…… Continue reading Background
Headers
A bunch of headers Here is a collection of my headers. You can see that my preference is for wide but narrow “mastheads” like old-fashioned newspapers. I want visitors to see more than just the static id imagery. That seems to be against the current trend, but I want visitors to see content. Two of…… Continue reading Headers
All about About
A dozen About pages and counting My friends and followers know that I have a “cloud” of blogs and sites and thus a ton of About pages. For some months I have been slowly “rationalizing” them. Each one is a little different, not just in layout and appearance but also in what it tells. It’s…… Continue reading All about About
Themes Galore
Day Five: Love Your Theme This is day five of the Blogging 101 course and the assignment is: Try out at least three other themes — even if you’re happy with the one you first chose. Try one you’re drawn to, and one you would never use. This one I have taken it easy on.…… Continue reading Themes Galore
Hello Reader
Who are the readers of this blog? The assignment for today in the Blogging 101 course is this: Publish a post you’d like your ideal audience member to read, and include a new-to-you element in it. Ideal audience member? I cannot define an ideal reader any more than I could define a perfect friend. In friendship…… Continue reading Hello Reader
A little more of “why?”
Why would a long-time blogger join Blogging 101? “There is always more to learn.” — “Learning is fun.” — “Learning is living!” Then there is the Chinese proverb: “Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” Persuasive truisms these are; as Yodda would have said. “Anybody can learn, even little kids do it all…… Continue reading A little more of “why?”
Day 2 -It gets hard already
Blogging 101 – Day Two: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline One of my frequent laments is “why does everything turn into a learning experience?!” Now I did enter the Blogging 101 course with eyes wide open. I love to learn, have been doing it for over eighty years! I hope to be doing it for…… Continue reading Day 2 -It gets hard already
Hello and Welcome
Hello World, hello friends far and wide Yes, this is a new blog for me. Some of you may be surprised as Cafe Ludwig has been around for over seven years, I have a number of sites and blogs with some 150 posts last year. WordPress reported over 140,000 site visits in 2015. So what’s up?…… Continue reading Hello and Welcome