Blogging Problems
May 11th, 2009
What’s the most difficult challenge you face?
When you begin blogging you sometimes don’t know what’s in store for you. You can set out all happily with big plans for your blog but before you know it you’ve hit a problem.
Some problems are technical:
- How can I change the font of my blog?
- What plugins do I need?
- Why is my photo displaying too large/small?
Other problems are more personal:
- What shall I write about?
- I don’t have time to work on my blog
- I’ve changed my mind and want to start my blog over again
Or maybe the problem is external:
- How do I get traffic to my blog?
- How do I get on to the front page of Google?
- How can I make money from my blog?
What’s your problem?
If you have a problem with your blog, why not share it here? Leave a comment at the bottom of this page and see what happens. Maybe someone will answer your problem or explain how they’ve solved a similar one.
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Blogging definitely takes a certain skill set to pull off successfully, you must be a dash of programmer, a bit of graphic design artist, a marketer, and a writer all rolled into one. And on top of that you must have a subject that is of interest to the people and that you are passionate / knowledgeable about. If you have all these things you will be successful on the internet.
Building a WordPress theme is difficult unless you are both a programmer and a graphical designer
You could search around the free themes at wordpress.org, or you could use design software like Artisteer and build your own, like I do. See my blog post http://wordpress2go.com/how-to-design-your-own-blog/ for details.
If you have a number of blogs it might be worth investing in Artisteer – it’s not mega-expensive – and you can use it over and over to create unique themes that look just how you want. You could easily use it to create something like the MMA Video site that you quoted.
Hope this helps!
Sarah
My question: how do I build a theme, or change my current so that it does not look like a blog. You could get an example of what I’m talking about at MMA Videos. But that site was made with a poorly designed theme from an seo point of view. Everything is a mess. But the look is what I want to replicate for other sites.
Thanks for the help. I will try this!
Hi Altha,
Your blog is going to look great!
You often get problems with putting optin boxes in widgets. Want you need to do is to get each of the lines of the form to break at the end and wrap round to the line below.
You will have a snippet of code that you have been given to make that form display. Look for the tags that say ‘< /label>’. You will find one of these at the end of every line of the form. For each one, add a line break tag , so that the end of the line says ”< /label><br/>’
Make sure you type this exactly, then replace the code in the widget with the amended code snippet. Click ‘Done’ and ‘Save’ and check your blog. It should be OK now.
To move the widget up to the top, before you ‘Save’ simply drag and drop the widget to the top of the sidebar. Then ‘Save’ and it’s at the top.
Good luck with your blog!
Sarah
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I just add my newsletter sign up widget/plugin but everything is not lining up properly. How do I fix this? AND, my SECOND QUESTION is, how can I move it to be placed above the listing of my categories? Would that not be the proper place to have a newsletter sign up box?
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.