We are back!

There were lots of glitches in my blog after my hosting company had trouble last week.  I decided the easiest thing in the end was to start from scratch.

Binky and his wrench

After much brandishing of the wrench Binky managed to get the blog part of the site up and running again.  I got our new [...]

I love my ‘stats’!

Most days I check my blog statistics. Maybe this puts me in the nerd group, but it really is fun! For example this morning I can see that I had a visitor from Kathmandu in Nepal – that’s pretty neat! I can see they came to me through my Blogger profile and stayed [...]

Developing Your Web Presence #5 – Online networking

Just a short post on this subject, but a very important one none the less! There aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything you can to network online AND create AND live your life, so pick which are most enjoyable to you and try and stick with them – persistance is the key so [...]

Developing Your Web Presence #4 – Do you need a Blog?

I’ve had a blog for a while now, but I remember thinking ‘why do I need one?’ and ‘what on earth will I put in one?’.

Here are my thoughts on why you need a blog, and it follows along with building a presence for yourself on the web.

If you don’t have a website a blog can [...]

Developing your Web Presence #1 – Being Everywhere and in One Place all at the same time!

This is my first post in what I hope will become a series, designed to offer ideas on how to have a good online presence for yourself or your small business.

Do you have business cards?  Advertise in different places?  In that case you’ve probably realised that what you need is one web address to direct potential [...]

If a tree falls. . .

Writing a blog post can feel a bit like that. Does anyone hear it? See it? Much less take time to read it. Flaming Hot’s subject of the week is What does your website do for you?

Since my website and blog are one and the same I certainly hope they are promoting [...]