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November 16, 2007
At this time I'm pretty lazy at designing and coding things. I've been stumbled on the Blog World, which give me the stronger will to live (blogging). I want to write more and more. However it's time to really do some serious decisions.
I started posting my blog entries with WordPress because I felt that's a necessary initiative. However, I strongly need to consider few things.
Website structure
The biggest issue I'm having is the website structure. I'm still wondering whether
- putting niche topics on separate subdomains, and so using WordPress MU to power my site,
- or just a single blog like right now with categories as niches.
Technically speaking, WordPress MU is capable of helping me separate the niches pretty well. SEO point of views, the 2nd option is much better, though require some serious initial design.
As for the niches, I have a few expertises and a few hobbies.
My expertises include:
- Software development
- Web development
- Software reviews
- Website reviews
- Reporting
My hobbies include:
- Photography - armature level, mostly common things and discoveries
- Giving opinions - just about anything I my find interested in having a say
- Learning - that's strange, but yes, I like to learn new things, and write about it.
Theme Design
The design is not finalized, yet. The design is a very important factor in retaining readers and building brand image. Hence, I need some serious time off writing and reading to do redesign the theme I chose, which is JustSimple.
URL structure
As you can see, my URL is still in ugly form. Earlier I wrote about the good URL structure choices, but since then haven't got good replies yet. I may need to visit some forum and invite people over for some feedback. Mean while, I still need to keep it like this.
WordPress Plug-ins
I installed and tested many WordPress plugins. So far I am very pleased with those:
- AdSense Manager
- All in One SEO Pack
- Google Analytics
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Inline Posts
- Permalink Redirect
- Post Teaser
- Subscribe To Comments
- wp-cache
The list for all plug-ins are long. Hence, I will keep it for another post summarizing those plug-ins and tell what worth using. The above plug-ins are nice to use, but new ones come out pretty often so they not yet for my permanent usage. For example recently WP Super Cache comes out and claim to take over 10,000 hits without a trouble.
Blog Directories
Yes, I have found out about those blog communities and was so surprise they existed and they really help. Recently as I go along learning, I stumbled on and signed up for the following:
I'm looking toward signing up on more directories. I will write review about each of them while I go along.
What's Next?
I planned to post about 10 articles a day. But due to those burdens I am delaying the writing. Struggling to start-up something does give much learning experience. I will be sharing my experience as I go along. Stay tuned for my progress on growing this baby "Binh dot Name" which ought to be a giant.
What about your blog? What do you plan with it? How will you achieve your goals?
Tags: Blogging, decision, Plugin, Reviews, SEO, Theme, url, WP
Hey there,
Glad to hear that you're happy with the Inline Posts plug-in and welcome to the blogosphere!
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