The Free Website Project

I just found out today that I will have to leave town for a few days, with very limited access to the internet. This means that, in order to make sure everything is working, I will break my posting schedule for the first time this year for one week. Next Friday will be the first day when everything is released, with all the unexpected image problems worked out, and I will give credit to everybody who helped then.

I am sorry to be putting this off for so long now that the logo design has been completed, but certain personal events have made it unavoidable. Check back then, though, because I have some great content ready to release!

We’re at the new domain, although the design can’t be set up yet because I can’t get the HTACCESS redirect to work, and that is top priority. Images aren’t displaying in posts.

This should be fixed by the end of tomorrow, by which time you might actually find a blog worth visiting again.

Photo by timparkinson.

Do you participate in blog carnivals? Surely, then, you understand the value of participating in the blogging community. Unfortunately, as I continue to develop my carnival, I have found that many submissions are, to put it bluntly, spam. In light of this, just so some of you know, I’d really rather you didn’t:

1. Spend more time describing your post than you did writing it
2. Submit articles without reading what my carnival is about
3. Try to convince me that, even though the article is irrelevant, it is for the good of mankind
4. Waste my time by not bothering to categorize what you’ve submitted
5. Ignore the hint by sending me another post from the same off-topic blog when the first one isn’t included

To the vast majority of you out there, thanks for your contribution and happy blogging!

And to all my regulars…
This post isn’t for you, it’s just something I can now link to whenever I have an issue. Feel free to stumble it or leave a comment if you have any thoughts .

This has almost nothing to do with free hosting or any of that, but I’m excited to let you all know that I won the Vista Rewired contest at Problogger. It’s a real honor to have my comment chosen, there were so many amazing contributions. This comes with 1,700 visitors and a link from Vista Rewired. I am saving the stumbleupon credit until the redesign of this blog is complete, but couldn’t resist posting about it .

Lesson learned: You don’t need to have thousands of visitors each day to give sound advice, you just need to take the time and thought required to offer meaningful suggestions.

Photo by Pierre J.

Last week’s blogging experiment, using fresh words, was an interesting way to try to vary your vocabulary. This week, I will be trying something different, aimed at increasing the significance of each word and freeing up more time. I will write useful, full-fledged posts in 120 words or less. I have chosen this number because it seems to be a good benchmark, but also because it is the average speed of spoken conversation. This means that, if read aloud, each post should fit into one minute.

Because of the changes over the next week, there will be exceptions, but 120 words will be my target for most posts. Opinion? Why not leave a comment!