Blog Thread

Hello Mac-Forum goers, I thought I'd create a thread for everyone to post their blogs in.

You should include a link to your blog, a short description if you'd like and why you made yours.

I'll start first.

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This is a blog of my various poetry, quotes, self-realizations and all my literate thoughts that I find the time to or feel like sharing.

I created it to just to get my stuff out their and give people my view on things in the form of poetry or some other sort of literacy, enjoy and leave some comments, make sure to check out all the entries it may seem like an unreasonable request now but you will find the reasoning vindicated

http://www.ryandowling.com/blog/

I started it because when people look at my portfolio site, I want them to get a sense of who I am. I don't write a lot of personal stuff there, such as what I think about topics and things. It's more of a general I did this today and that yesterday.

www.beambeam1.blogspot.com

Created because my friend said it would be right up my street, apparently I have a way of telling stories and a stunning turn of phrase... it's been on the go for over 2 years now and I love looking back at older posts to see just how things have changed in my life since then. Sometimes I'll give a wee update of how I am for family and friends to keep up to date with how I am, other times I will just post random musings about things that are going on all around me... most people have loved my search for more starfruit ones in recent months.

Not been on it much lately, been busy romancing a new girl in my life and all that!

http://thydarkages.blogspot.com

It's just something like a diary where I just blabber on and on about my life, nothing particularly interesting in that sense. Hah.

Hello! I've been interested in starting my own blog for a while, and recently picked up a book to learn some HTML. I was wondering if u guys could give me a few tips. Like who are u guys going through to run ur site. Whats a reasonable price to pay and that sort of stuff. I was looking at yours, Ryan Dowling, and ive seen quite a few styled the same way. Are you paying some one to host ur site?

- Sorry for changing the focus of this intended thread.

I have three. I will only show you one
www.webveteran.com/blog
Desc: Everything ColdFusion, AJAX, JavaScript, MySQL, MS SQL and web programming in general.

MDCjr said:

Hello! I've been interested in starting my own blog for a while, and recently picked up a book to learn some HTML. I was wondering if u guys could give me a few tips. Like who are u guys going through to run ur site. Whats a reasonable price to pay and that sort of stuff. I was looking at yours, Ryan Dowling, and ive seen quite a few styled the same way. Are you paying some one to host ur site?

- Sorry for changing the focus of this intended thread.

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I have my own hosting, I got it at a place called apisnetworks.com. If you have never hosted a site before I wouldn't recommend them because their control panel is pretty tough to figure out.

I know there are some free hosting sites out there where you could host a blog. I downloaded WordPress and installed it on my server, and then found a template I liked and edited that.

If I knew CSS I would have designed my own, but since I don't know it I had to go with editing someone's.

You could also go the route of signing up at a place like blogspot or wordpress hosts blogs as well. I would probably do that until you are comfortable enough to create your own, then you should be able to save the data and import it to your new blog.

MDCjr said:

Hello! I've been interested in starting my own blog for a while, and recently picked up a book to learn some HTML. I was wondering if u guys could give me a few tips. Like who are u guys going through to run ur site. Whats a reasonable price to pay and that sort of stuff. I was looking at yours, Ryan Dowling, and ive seen quite a few styled the same way. Are you paying some one to host ur site?

- Sorry for changing the focus of this intended thread.

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If you buy a new Mac, you also get a program called iWeb for free. This program is great, no HTML needed just drag and drop. I use iWeb along with my .Mac account and it works great, you can also use it with other web hosters, do a google search you'll find plenty. I think I pay around $20 a year for hosting and another $10 for the URL.

Goobimama's Soggy Blog

A personal blog actually. Started it like four years ago. I write some light bits out stuff that happens in life in general. Do check it out.

goobimama said:

Goobimama's Soggy Blog

A personal blog actually. Started it like four years ago. I write some *** bits out stuff that happens in life in general. Do check it out.

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Thanks for posting, what got filtered out? lol

This forum and it's sad rules. Thank god you warned me. Cause other big mr would have given me a infraction or some other useless thing like that.

As for seeing stars, well, apparently I'm not even allowed to explain myself (or so says the latest infraction)

Haha wow OK, sorry about that goob.

I have a company blog (Just started it).. I thought it would be a good idea for clients to be able to read about the creative lives of the people who will be working on their projects. Not for the employees to write about problems with their girlfriends / boyfriends, or the latest party they went to, but to talk about what their last project was and how it went, what they are working on now, things pertaining to company life, and other professional work they are doing.

http://blog.exquisite-video.com

flashkris.blogspot.com

Just some random comic strips and thoughts. I also post up photos that I've taken.