Hey everyone! Welcome to day 2 of my one year blogoversary! Today I have some cool statistics I’d love to share with you guys about the books I have read since starting the blog! Source Stats This first table shows you how many books I […]
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Blogoversary: BookNook Turns 1! (Giveaway & New Blog Name)
I have been blogging for one year! All I can say is: Wow. I never thought my blog would be where it is one year after creation. THANK YOU ALL so much! Seriously, my blog would be nothing without you guys and I love you […]
Tutorial: How to Set Up Your Blog With MyMail & Amazon SES
Update: 5 April 2016: Since writing this article, MyMail has been replaced with Mailster. This article may no longer be relevant to the new Mailster plugin. I haven’t personally used the new version myself so I can’t vouch for it one way or another. The […]
Web Host Survey
I’m doing some research so that I can write a blog post to recommend web hosts to people transferring from Blogger to WordPress.. and I need your help! Obviously I can rate and recommend my own web hosts, but I need more information! If you […]
How to Display Excerpts on your Blog Homepage Instead of the Full Posts
This question is geared towards WordPress blogs. This week’s question is: I’d love a simplified tutorial on setting up a front page that automatically grabs the images and words from your recent posts with a read more button that takes readers to the whole post.. […]
How to Make Scrolling Images or Text
I received an excellent suggestion from Bree at Coffee Bean Bookshelf for a tutorial: how to make a marquee scrolling sidebar widget for images (also works for text). It’s a lot easier than you think! Here is the general code, which you can paste into […]
Why I Have Given Up FeedBurner (and what I now use for e-mail subscriptions)
What I used FeedBurner for Since starting my blog I have been using FeedBurner to send out e-mail updates to my e-mail subscribers, and “burn” my feed, which allows subscribers to easily add my RSS feed to their own RSS reader. However, Google has given […]
How to Keep Your Blog & Online Accounts Safe – Part 1 – Passwords & Recovery Questions
It seems like every other week I’m reading about some sort of internet hacking incident. My mom’s e-mail getting hacked. A friend’s Facebook getting hacked. A random person’s Twitter getting hacked. My mom’s e-mail getting hacked… again. Someone’s website getting hijacked. A WordPress account getting […]
How to Hide Spoilers in Your Reviews – Alternative Method
Last week I went over how to hide spoilers in your reviews. I’ve found that the first method works quite well for small in-line spoilers, but any time you want to hide big chunks of text, things tend to get wonky (sometimes when you click […]
How are Followers Measured? And What the Heck is RSS?
How are Followers Measured? Last week I asked how do you follow non-blogger blogs? There are so many ways to follow a blog: GFC, Linky, NetworkedBlogs, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail subscriptions, RSS, you name it! So when we have so many different ways to be followed, […]