Welcome to BloggingNotes. You may want to subscribe to my full text RSS feed. This message will only appear once. Thanks for visiting!submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/using-plug-ins-in-windows-live-writer-2008/’;The other day when I posted a recommendation for using Windows Live Writer to edit your blog, I got a lot of good feedback, so today I wanted to [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/backup-and-update-a-wordpress-blog-in-under-12-seconds/’;Actually, that title is a little misleading. I was able to backup and update three WordPress blogs in less than 12 seconds. There are a few requirements before you can put this in place, which I’ll explain in a bit.
Back in April, I was listening to the WordPress Podcast and heard [...]

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One of the things that I’ve always said about this site was that I wanted it to be an aggregator for the best blogging tips that I can come across in addition to providing original content as well.  But I can only do so much.
While the comments and feedback are VERY much appreciated, I thought [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/configuring-windows-live-writer-for-movable-type/’;This post will show how to configure WLW to work properly with Movable Type using just a couple of screenshots. This came about from comments and emails that I received on how to set it up properly. I had to do it on my home machine this weekend, anyway, so figured [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/do-you-display-your-feed-count/’;That’s the question that’s being asked over on Daily Blog Tips. For myself, I’ve displayed my feed count in the past, but haven’t since the changeover to the new theme. Sometimes it felt like the feedcount was a form of scoreboard, and a large drop in the number of subscribers would make me [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/sometimes-the-best-blogging-tips-are-somewhere-else/’;One of the goals that I had when I started BNN was to act as an aggregator, collecting a lot of the best blogging tips from around the blogosphere and then sending readers off to the blogs that originally posted the material.  While some people would wonder just why I’d want to [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/maybe-a-blogging-workflow-would-work-for-you/’;As much as I’ve tried to get into a static workflow for my blogging over the last three years of doing this, I’ve never really been able to stick to it.  But since starting BNN last week, I’m finding it a little easier to stick to.  That may be because my main blog [...]

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submit_url = ‘http://www.bloggingnotes.net/bloggingzoom-sends-the-traffic/’;BloggingNotes.net went live on November 6th, just about a week behind BloggingZoom started sending traffic back to the bloggers who had submitted information on their latest posts.
In that time, I’ve seen traffic coming to this site that I’d never seen on the other blogs that I currently write for.  This morning I had [...]

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One of the things that bugs me about Windows Live Writer is its lack of support for secure FTP connections. For reasons that we don’t need to go into here, when I FTP something to my site, I need to do it with a secure connection. This is not an option [...]

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This is definitely NOT what I wanted to have happen. I’m looking for a new theme for BNN, as it’s come to my attention that the CSS is borked in Internet Explorer. Rather badly, too.
According to my stats, Internet Explorer only accounts for about 10% of the traffic coming here, but that’s still [...]

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