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
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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