Bridge A small contribution to Becky’s square image challenge, specifically the “Geometry of Bridges”. Normally I shy away from square images. They don’t fit well into the themes of my sites. My posts start with a “featured image” nearly full screen width. The viewer can’t see all of a square image and has to scroll…… Continue reading Bridge
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Going ’round
A quick scene from this morning. Going ’round My thought was this would be for Monday Window, but Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge won out. After all it is on the street.
Winter Bloom
It is wintery cold outside. The low last night was below 14F (-10 C). Nothing is blooming around the house. The daffodils haven’t made their appearance. Although back in 2017 this is how far they had come up: Back then, just a few days earlier things looked like this: However, today inside, the Christmas cactus…… Continue reading Winter Bloom
Growing my Audience
Hardly a day goes by without at least one message in a spam folder that offers sure-fire ways of increasing my readership. Some want to sell me Twitter followers, others offer Facebook friends. It isn’t just those no-name fly-by-nights, but the biggies do it too. Witness Facebook pushing its own advertising. Why for just $5…… Continue reading Growing my Audience
A day for gotchas
There are days like this It started like any other day. I checked my emails, followed up on a couple, deleted advertising and then came across an email from Quora. Somebody was asking “Why should we use Windows Live Writer”. I had just been checking out some features in the new Open Live Writer so…… Continue reading A day for gotchas
Another New Home
… for Monday Window and a new logo After moving the “home” of Monday Window over to Two Cameras – Two Views I discovered that the blog domain “mondaywindow” was available at WordPress.com. Of course I claimed it. Now Monday Window has it own home at MondayWindow.wordpress.com. Along with the new home there is also…… Continue reading Another New Home
Closing Doors and Windows
The fun projects, Monday Window and Thursday Doors, have been moved to Two Cameras – Two Views. This blog, on a self-hosted site, does not do well on WordPress Reader. Just three friends have succeeded in following this blog. They will not be forgotten. There will always be some ramblings here with links and information…… Continue reading Closing Doors and Windows
My Liebster Award
My blog Café Ludwig has been nominated for the Liebster Award by Irmgard Rahn, BOOKS OF REALITY. Irmgard was a fellow participant in Blogging 101. Since this blog was my “vehicle” for that course, I consider it appropriate that I involve it in the award process by fulfilling two of the requirements of the award…… Continue reading My Liebster Award
My Brand
My Brand: My Name – My Logo Come we now to Blogging 101 Day Fourteen. The task: Extend your brand with one of the following: a custom site icon, a custom image widget, or a fan page. Well, I have done all these things many times over. So let me tell you a bit of my history,…… Continue reading My Brand
If at first you don’t succeed …
… take up something else! … Besides there was the note “come by at two o’clock”. We had been waiting for the opening of Hog & Ale Smokehouse for over four months. Turning to good food has always been a great “plan B” strategy. Mmmm, their “piglets” are awesome! Now what were we talking about.…… Continue reading If at first you don’t succeed …
Searchers, Followers, and Friends
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
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