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What process do you use to test changes to your blog?
Some of you may have a separate install of WordPress on your host that you use as a sandbox area while others may make tweaks to your live site and hope for the best.
I’ve been making some changes to my site and working on a [...]

Awhile back I put out a request to all of my readers to critique my theme and there were some great comments and feedback.
Over 60% of the people that responded to my poll thought that the theme itself was okay but that my header needed to be updated. There were 18% that didn’t think [...]

Once I stopped hitting refresh every 3 seconds to see how many more times my post about the exploding CD had been dugg, I began to think of what I should do next.
I’d read many posts about how you should try and leverage the increase in traffic but none of the ideas really struck me [...]

About a week ago there was an article in the Chicago Tribune about the BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana receiving a break on dumping more ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan.
As you might expect in a case like this with accusations being made, each side of the coin contains a separate story and it becomes [...]

In the spirit of link love and preparing for the anticipated update to Google Page Rank, there is a new meme of blogging tips making the rounds and I’ve been tagged by Leo Chiang.
Who doesn’t love a few extra back links, right? One change that I would make to this meme would be to [...]