Thursday To Do 10/6/11

Read about google plus - add this later!


Ebook - 1 hour
CopyBlogger font size info more font information at blogigs.com

Sociable Icons still not sure if I'm going to do this.

For now add a FB like to each blog post.

Review of the Week Sept 30

What I learned?

After reading Amy's blog and seeing Venn Diagram, I'm changing my mind about what my blog is going to be used for. Will take longer to set up, but that doesn't matter. After reading Pat's post How to Really Profit from Your blog...my direction is confirmed. Blog is a vehicle for future ebook and classes I would like to teach.

What did you do?

• Sent email to Pat with link of post for his Reader Challenge which will continue to grow readership at HH.
• Continued working on header using Gimp
• Installed Firebug using Firefox to make changes to child theme in my blog. Getfirebug.com
• tons of comments/info at Allaboutbasics. 
• Started working on ebook layout using word

What I plan to do by Oct 7.

• Buy a cup of coffee for author of Allaboutbasics  Done!
• Continue working on layout - make new plan for blog goals to come on Monday. Done!

Penalty

Owe $2 of my fun money to food pantry (must take items in by Oct 7) this isn't working...

Thursday To Do 9/29/11

In order to figure out how parent/child themes work install firebug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbYpl1XFiM done

Excellent tutorial - read the comments too: All about Basic
Future to do:

http://digitalraindrops.net/2011/08/twenty-eleven-social-icons-in-navigation/

Goals Week of Sept 26

Tues:

• installed firebug in firefox....use F12 to activate. Figure out why there is a gray line at the top of my header. Design header and change functions.php to accommodate the change in size. Needs to be higher than 150 (width keep at 1000). (see bottom "notes" to see if there is something in there that I did.
• emailed Blogher done wait for 30 days
• still working on forms - no goal - ongoing issue....

Wed: 11-1:30 or 2:00

• shop in AM, update grocery shopping post in PM done
• design in gimp??? done

Thursday: 4 hours maximum!

• write 1 hour done
• Continue working on design using firebug 

Ongoing:

• update Intentional Living post constantly!

1. Contact Blogher regarding advertising on this blog. (30 minutes) sent email 9/27
2. Install Clicky software http://getclicky.com/user/#wordpress (as long as it takes)
1. Update feedburner feed
3. Update wordpress twenty eleven, allaboutbasic, digitalraindrops.net
1. child theme 
2. forum
3. firebug youtube video; 
4.  Continue learning GIMP - header (min. 1 hour)
5. install recommended plugins (review SPI's) (min. 1 hour) do not need to do this right now.
6. Friday - check feedburner to see if it works...

Still to do from last week:

Create professional documents - not sure how to measure this...what I'm doing looks unprofessional. Make documents clean and easy to understand.

1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/picnik/thread?tid=06d47931e6134512&hl=en
2. can I just add arrows in excel?

On future to do list:

• read SPI's post about good plug ins to have
• SEO plug All in One
• from thinktraffic Creating a Launch Plan "For now, start making a list of everything you’d like to have in place by the time you launch your new blog." Launch Plan thoughts:
• Safeway/Starbucks letter to see if they'll donate for a giveaway
• List 10 websites that I could submit a guest post to (include three big sites)
• Share a "my story"  at SmartPassiveIncome by end of October

Penalty

Every goal unmet donate $1.00 to food pantry donation $

Notes:

in style.css

#page {
margin: .5em auto;
max-width: 1050px;
border-top: 15px solid #bbb;
-webkit-border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
-o-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
}


may want to add this????

What I learned...9/19-9/24

Everything takes forever to do. I need to continue working on things with a time limit instead of a goal to get something done. My family comes first.

9/22/11

• Read comments regarding plugins on Amy's site
• install recommended plugins (review SPI's)
• continue on her site starting with feedburner feed
•  from ThinkTraffic.net  -  You have to install Clicky analytics on your blog and Google Feedburner (both free services). - what did Amy say about feed whatever plugin?
• register for Million Dollar Blog Project
• Gimp tutorial  13 minutes long

• Make sure that my backup worked and was sent to jaebroeder; if yes, set up a filter

Week of 9/18/11

What I learned?

1. Write Epic!!! don't write mediocre stuff - there's a TON of that on the Internet
2. "It’s also important for your topic to solve a problem or fulfill a need your audience has. "
1. my blog http://weeklygroceryshopping.com/ will solve a problem IF I write/show them how to do it PHASE by PHASE showing details in a professional way
3. Answered these questions:

• Why should someone read my blog vs. the 100s of other blogs out there on this topic (or related topics? How would my blog be different?
• Am I capable of writing outstanding content on this topic? Could my content be better than 90% of blogs that exist on related topics?
• Am I excited enough about this topic to write about it multiple times every week for a year, even if I don’t draw a large audience?

Most importantly I learned that the content you write needs to be outstanding AND you need to be different than all of the other bloggers.

Main Goal

Start researching themes for WP


Items Accomplished 

• DONE! Read ThinkTraffic's posts on naming your domain - decide if I want to keep my domain name
• http://weeklygroceryshopping.com/
• DONE!  if I don't keep it, then start all over (N/A - I'm keeping my domain name)
• do the following
1. DONE! find 3 frugal carnivals to participate in
• grocery details wednesdays and/or frugal recipe on thursday:   http://www.frugalfollies.com/ 
• spendwise.org
• grocerycartchallenge
• moneysavingmom
• lifeasmom
2. DONE!   find out if google docs can be displayed in a post or does it always have to be a link: click share at the right hand side, publish as a web page, click on HTML, grab code and insert it into the post.
3. DONE! find a free publishing software that I can use OR figure out MS publisher
1. http://bloggingwithamy.com/how-to-make-a-blog-button/
2. http://bloggingwithamy.com/how-to-watermark-a-photo-and-edit-images-in-picnik/
4. Create professional documents - not sure how to measure this...what I'm doing looks unprofessional. Make documents clean and easy to understand.
1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/picnik/thread?tid=06d47931e6134512&hl=en
2. can I just add arrows in excel?

On future to do list:

• already have domain up on wordpress - find a simple, clean theme that works for me
• design header
• read SPI's post about good plug ins to have
• SEO plug All in One
• from thinktraffic Creating a Launch Plan "For now, start making a list of everything you’d like to have in place by the time you launch your new blog." Launch Plan thoughts:
• Safeway/Starbucks letter to see if they'll donate for a giveaway
• List 10 websites that I could submit a guest post to (include three big sites)
• 10-20 Keyword rich words
• Share a "my story"  at SmartPassiveIncome by end of October

What I plan to do week of September 25, 2011


Penalty
Every goal unmet donate $1.00 to food pantry donation $

Items Researched

Creating a form in google docs

Started Accountability Journal

Found ThinkTraffic.com's Million Dollar Blog Project

Rules include:

• Accountability journal - ThinkTraffic.com 
• Install Clicky Analytics
• Feedburner