I first started blogging using one of my personal domains back in November 2003. Back then I was using mneylon.com as my main personal domain. Since then I switched over to michele.me and then, more recently, over to michele.blog. For historical reasons my blog used to live under "/blog", but when I moved over to michele.blog I moved it to the domain root. That means that … [Read more...] about Blogging, Writing and More
blogging
Switching WordPress Themes
I've been using Woothemes' "Canvas" on this and several other Wordpress sites for some time. It's a solid theme that works well. Unfortunately Woothemes decided to drop Canvas. It still "works", but it won't be updated or upgraded to take advantage of any of the newer features in Wordpress. And yes, I am aware that the announcement to drop it was made about two years … [Read more...] about Switching WordPress Themes
Switching Over to Michele.blog
As of today this blog has a new web address: michele.blog I'm delighted to have been able to get this domain and excited to be switching over to it. For the past 13+ years I've been blogging under /blog on a number of different domains. I started out with mneylon.com, but several years ago I upgraded to michele.me. However I still kept the old web structure, so apart from … [Read more...] about Switching Over to Michele.blog
Rebooting IrishBlogs.com
I've had the domain irishblogs.com for over a decade, since 2004 to be precise. It was, up until very recently, a rather rudimentary link directory. When I first put the site online I used to spend time and energy looking after it, along with many of the other sites I was running at the time. But over time I got busier with other projects and interests and couldn't spend as … [Read more...] about Rebooting IrishBlogs.com
Captain Obvious Says Blogging Regularly Gets Traffic
I posted a few weeks ago about how I was going to go on a diet and change my lifestyle. Yesterday marked 3 weeks on the diet, so I posted a "status report" / "progress report" (I work in IT - you'll have to excuse the IT-esque terminology!). What I didn't go into were some of metrics related to my weight loss / diet blogging. On the technology.ie podcast Conn and I are … [Read more...] about Captain Obvious Says Blogging Regularly Gets Traffic