Category Archives: Blogbook

I decided to post these statistics periodically in a series of reports after installing the Count per Day plugin on October 14, 2010. Previous attempts have had to deal with retyping the information because a copy-and-paste procedure messed up the formatting. What follows is a series of “grabs,” also called “screen shots” or “captures,” of the Count per Day window. I began at the top and took three shots, then cropped them to present the relevant information. It took me a while to figure out the procedure. And while there may be a better way, these are the steps with … Continue reading →

When I first began the process of launching this website on a blog platform, my friend and fellow writer Deanna Roy suggested that before we sat down to build it, I needed to have content ready to publish and have chosen a few themes I might like to try. Compared to writing the posts, looking through hundreds of themes was like trying to find the one perfect word and beginning at the first page of a dictionary. Although blogging is far more about the writing than the appearance of the page, I found that predominantly white themes have a greater … Continue reading →

Reference my previous post titled “Header Headaches,” I sent out email queries to three different sources asking for assistance in finding an original image for the WordPress Fighter Theme so I could size it to fit the default header area in the WordPress 2010 Weaver Theme I am now using. Bruce Wampler, Ph.D., of WordPress Weaver, designer of 2010 Weaver, kindly answered within a few hours. He pointed out that all WordPress themes must be GNU licensed (i.e. free for anyone to use), and therefore the image is free as well. I didn’t realize that theme descriptions include a copy … Continue reading →

The first theme choice for the website remains my favorite in terms of appearance. It is dark, overall aqua, with cool transparency effects and “hover” color changes when the pointer is placed over the menu and widget items. The image below isn’t exactly how it looked, but it gives you an idea. In a previous post I addressed the reasons for making the change to this current theme. After working with it for a couple of months now, I’m convinced that it is without question a better choice. That said, it has also introduced a new and pervasive element: the … Continue reading →

The count-per-day plugin I installed on October 14, 2010, continues to faithfully monitor the number of visitors to the site and what they read. The information is presented in both tabular and graphical format and includes: total visitors and reads today, yesterday, last week, this month; visitors currently online; average number of visitors per day; visitors and reads per month; visitors per post for the top 20; the 20 most visited posts in the last 7 days; and posts visited today along with the number of visitors per post. A list titled “Browsers” shows the percentage of visitors arriving at … Continue reading →

I’ve been unable to rid myself of The Shadow’s constant companionship. That, however, is because I haven’t tried. We’ve become friends, and friendship comes with obligations. Like not turning your back and walking away when things get a bit rough. Friends stay the course through the good and bad. So I’ve tried to interact with this website/blog regularly by posting new content about three to five times per week, even when the “holding pattern” (an aviator’s term for waiting in line to initiate an approach to a landing) has no draft posts in the queue. Yesterday, for example, I finished … Continue reading →

Like a shadow, the blog stays close by. Tending it is addictive. That’s not to say it’s dangerous, unless you consider it to be a waste of time (which in my case might be a distinct possibility), but the relationship develops a life of its own. I’m obligated to it. Ignoring it feels traitorous, in a way. Like abandoning a friend. As mentioned in previous status reports, my intention has been to publish fresh content often enough that activity on the site encourages visitor traffic. And although I have no statistical data from the first 77 days, the last 31 … Continue reading →