Articles in The Saturday Series
Picture of the Week: Lonely Dog
Canadians like pets, and in residential neighbourhoods it’s common to see people walking their dogs after an early diner, no matter the weather.
However, unlike French, Canadians are well-behaved and they pick up after their dogs—streets here are not dotted with dog poop.
10 Blogging Basics I Learned
I started this blog from scratch and I think I made just about every single mistake possible because I didn’t know anything about blogging. Looking back at screenshots of my first blog, I cringe. I know better now.
To close the All About Blogging series, I’d like to share these 10 blogging basics I learned.
All About Blogging: Dealing With Blogging Annoyances
I find blogging very rewarding. Yet, some little things can irk you. These blogging annoyances are everywhere and you have to deal with them to keep your sanity. Here are four annoyances you will probably come across.
All About Blogging: Ten Tips To Be a Better Writer
How hard can writing be? You just have to type what you’re thinking, right?
Well, it doesn’t quite work like that, even if your spontaneous thoughts and observations can be a good starting point.
When you’re writing for an audience, a few basic tips apply.
All About Blogging: What to Blog About When There is Nothing to Blog About?
No matter how much you enjoying blogging, chances are you experienced or will experience writer’s block at one point or another. Fortunately, there are several ways to hack yourself out of a writer’s block.
All About Blogging: 8 Neat WordPress Plugins
One of the perks of WordPress.org is the plugins, these mostly free and easy-to-use programs that enable you to enhance or customize your website. The choice is almost too vast, so I decided to make your life easier. Here are ten neat WordPress plugins you should test!
All About Blogging: 5 Blogs Turn-Offs or Why I Stopped Reading Your Blog
From time to time, I scout the web for new interesting blogs related to travel, photography, life abroad—the kind of topics I’m into. For instance, I check Expat Blog to see what’s new. I read the blog description and open it in a new tab to take a look.
Will I subscribe to the feed? Maybe. But definitely not if your blog has one or more of these “blog turn-offs”.
All About Blogging: Blog Monetizing, What Works Best?
In 2008, I wrote a first article titled Making Money with Your Blog, in which I detailed the progress of monetizing my blog. Since then, a lot changed. For the better, mostly.
