I’ve been wanting to move away from my iWeb-designed artist site, www.rebeccakling.com, for a while. It absolutely has served its purpose of getting me a solid online presence, but it looks very iWeb-y and means I have to work within the constraints of that software. For the past week or so, I’ve been setting up this replacement site, using WordPress as a content management system. (It’s called ‘sandbox’ so that I can tell the difference between the two sites in my open tabs. I’d remove ‘sandbox’ when I actually switch to using the site.) WordPress comes with its own pros and cons, but it gives me a lot more design flexibility, tons of event and mailing list and video and photo plugins, as well as the ability to edit the site when I’m away from my primary computer.
I haven’t quite transferred 100% of the pages over, but it’s pretty close to done. I’d love people’s thoughts on what works and what doesn’t, and what they think.
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I’ve been thinking recently about advertising on the Internet. As some of you may notice, I have an ad running along the right side of my blog. Specifically, I’m a member of BlogHer’s advertising network. BlogHer pegs itself as “the best conversations led by women in social media. A curated selection of authentic voices.” Their advertising network serves ads to members of the BlogHer network, giving advertisers the opportunity to focus on a (relatively) targeted audience. As a bonus for blogs serving BlogHer ads, the ads will link to other blogs in the BlogHer network – I get traffic from other people hosting BlogHer ads, and they send traffic to me. That means that being a BlogHer advertiser not only gives me a small amount of money, it boosts my traffic, further boosting my ad revenue.
I don’t make tons of money from the advertisements on this blog. It’s been about $10 a month, which basically covers my hosting costs for this blog. That said, it’s really exciting to get some money – no matter how little – for doing something I enjoy doing anyway.
For all that, I’m a bit of a hypocrite: I block ads when I’m online, and strongly recommend that everyone else should, too. The difference is pretty incredible.
There, isn't that better?
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