I found Pinterest a few weeks ago, and I can officially say I’m an addict! If you never heard about it, the easiest way to describe it is “an online bookmark manager with pictures”. Basically … I follow so many food boards I can hardly keep track of all the gorgeous looking dishes out there! …
Category: Blog resources
Where should I list my giveaway?
So you have a giveaway hosted on your blog, now what? I’m sure you want people to know about it so they’ll enter (otherwise, why have a giveaway :-p ) There are soooo many places to list your giveaway, I can’t possibly list them all … I’m listing here a list of my favorite places …
Goodbye GFC, hello Google+ !
Recently Google announced that GFC (Google Friends Connect) will not be available soon for non-Blogger websites. This means “Goodbye GFC!” for this site, and “Hello Google+ !”. Google+ is the social network that Google are trying to promote. Basically this means all the GFC followers I had in this site are gone đ Now I …
Are you following me? A GFC tip …
Any site who runs giveaways knows this problem – one of the entries is usually to follow the blog via GFC (Google Friends Connect). But when it’s time to pick the winner and validate his/her entries – how can you easily find out if the person really does follow you on GFC? Clicking through the …
Please vote for my ring!
My white ring with a blue flower is featured on Made For Me By Oaklie on this week’s “Great Finds” page, and there’s also a poll to vote for your favorite find. The Theme for this week’s page is âSun and Surfâ. So cool! Please vote for my ring! The voting poll is on the bottom …
Moving to WordPress – step #4: I made the move!!
As you probably see, the blog has now moved officially to its new location at beadsbyroni.com! AND I was able to keep all my email subscribers AND kept all the posts and comments AND all links to the previous blog posts are now being automatically redirected to their new location on beadsbyroni.com! Isn’t that cool??? …
Moving to WordPress, Step #3: GFC
 It’s been going really well moving to WordPress, so far I see that I can keep all my data without losing any content/follower/subscribers. I’m so excited! I think I’ll write the whole process as one big post for anyone who wants to move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress blog. It will make things easier …
Moving to WordPress, Step #2: Installing WordPress
I installed WordPress on my new domain, now there’s a dummy blog …Next up: picking a theme and getting GFC to work properly so I won’t lose all my followers.I think that’s the tricky part, I hope it will go smoothly.I also need to move all the content (posts + comments), and make sure that …
Moving to WordPress, Step #1: A new domain …
I finally decided to move the blog to my own domain and use WordPress instead of Blogger!It’s a bit scary but hopefully it will go smooth without any problems. So step #1 in the move was to buy my own domain, which I did … the whole procedure was very quick and within 1 hour …