Wow, hi

So I realize I have not blogged in almost a month and it looks like I might not get to any time soon. *sadface* I have been so busy with my designs that I don't have any free time to blog or exercise. On the weight front I lost about 10 pounds with my body detox but I just didn't have time to write about it everyday. Sigh. There is really no update about the house except that we are still in escrow and waiting further notice. So I just wanted to post real quick to say I am alive but that I am just extremely busy … [Continue reading]

Latest Projects: April 2012

These are the latest projects that I have finished, April 2012.... If you click on the images it will take you to the live site. What was your favorite project this month? … [Continue reading]

Dr. Blog: How to make your blogger blog load faster?

The speed at which your blog loads is important to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users: 1. Clean up your sidebars: a. Take all of your blog buttons OFF your sidebars and add them to a page. (remember to add the page gadgets to your blog so it shows up) b. Do the same thing with your blog … [Continue reading]

How to: Get your own username for your Facebook page (re-post)

Are you sick of not being able to remember the URL of your facebook page because it’s SO darn long? Well I will teach you how to shorten it from something that looks like this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooking-For-Little-Fingers/128104747234900 To this: www.facebook.com/cookingforlittlefingers This is a really simple fix. 1. Log into your facebook account that you want your facebook page username set 2. Go to www.facebook.com/username 3. Go to where it says pages and find the … [Continue reading]

Dr. Blog: Get your Blogger Blog Mobile Friendly

Do you want your readers to be able to read your blog on their mobile devices? 1. Log in to Blogger (use the same log in info as you would on blogger.com) 2. Click on Settings 3. Click on the Mobile & Email tab 4. Where it says “Show mobile template” you want to select “Yes, On mobile devices, show the mobile version of my template” 5. If you like you want click on “mobile preview” to see what it would look like on a mobile device 6. Click save and you’re … [Continue reading]

Dr. Blog: What are subdomains?

What is a subdomain you ask? A subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. To go into more detail, it runs off the same domain name but serves different purposes. Have you ever gone to a site (ex. www.domainname.com) and you click the shop page and it beings you to www.shop.domainname.com and the sites different, well that is a subdomain. Still confusing? Ok let make Blogger the example, when you start a blog on Blogger (AKA blogspot) your URL is www.blog/sitename.blogspot.com well … [Continue reading]

Dr. Blog: Blog feeds to your Facebook page or twitter

Do you want to import your blog feeds to your Facebook page/profile or twitter accounts? I have the 3 most used ways that are out there right now, two ways I really like and one way well I don’t like as much. NetworkedBlogs: This is a good way to import your feed to your twitter accounts but for your Facebook pages it’s not a good feed importer to use. Why you ask? Well as of lately all of the NetworkedBlogs post from the pages you follow are getting grouped together and your post just … [Continue reading]

Dr.Blog: Studiopress tutorial, how to add next/previous links on post

This tutorial is for Studiopress (Genesis Framework) for Wordpress.Org sites This is a feature that most wordpress.org blogs don't have added into their themes, and is probably the only thing that is missed from blogger when they move to the self-hosted wordpress platform. this is an easy fix but does include some copy and pasting codes into your functions.php and style.css files. BEFORE YOU START THIS PLEASE BACK-UP YOUR FILES, COPY AND PASTE THE CODE INTO WORD OR NOTEBOOK BEFORE YOU MESS … [Continue reading]

Wordless Wednesday: King Bradley

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8 years… our love story

Monday was mine and the Hubby’s 8th anniversary of being together. We are in a way high school sweet hearts, I know it’s cliché but we met while I was in high school and been together since I was in 11th grade. I actually met him on my 15th birthday and we stayed friends for about 2 years, we dated other people as well as saw each other when we were not… it was the no strings attached type of relationship. Then he moved away to Las Vegas; we tried to stay in contact but I missed him, I … [Continue reading]

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Use the code WACKYJACQUI GET $9.94 off at Hostgator!!! OR for bigger purchases (like buying a whole year,or 2 or 3 at once) you can get 25% off using the code WACKYJACQUI25 Use which ever code will get you the best deal. Click HERE to get started. **add the code in the Step 1: Choose a Domain area. Just replace any code that is current there.     … [Continue reading]