May 25th 2009
Well, I've sort of hit a wall in my homework assignments.
I was cruising right along until I got to the part about creating content. Writing has always been my least favorite thing (except in elementary school, when all my teachers said I was a great writer. Go figure!)I had been very diligent in writing a new article every day and setting up the pages as was outlined in the Affiloblueprint videos.
I got through about eight articles that way. But they were all either product reviews that I could write based on the sales page and other review sites, or articles for beginners in the niche.
So now I'm faced with coming up with ...
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May 12th 2009
I'm taking a little side trip in my review of AffiloBlueprint to post the exact steps I did to modify the Wordpress theme that comes with it so that I could make my content into posts instead of pages.
This probably won't mean much to someone who doesn't have AffiloBlueprint, but basically it came with a WordPress theme that was built by them and assumes all of your content will be individual pages. It automatically adds any page title to the sidebar menu.
I wanted my content to be posts instead because then the web will be pinged when I update instead of me having to depend on search engine bots finding me.
But I also want ...
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May 11th 2009
Well, I poked around some more and figured out how to change the sidebar of the Wordpress theme to show posts instead of pages.
So now I have 2 posts live; my homepage and one other.
I also created an animated GIF to use on the individual article pages. Mark's sample was just a 250 x 250 box with a background and 3 frames of text on top.
I have ImageReady, but when I created a simple GIF like this, it was 80k. The one on his sample site is only 49K.
So I did this: First I created each individual gif in Photoshop where I could trim down the colors. Each gif was only ...
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