Buster321c 1,010 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 With the amount of people on here , there has to be some bloggers . What are good blog sites for reading , and also what sites are good for starting a blog ? I keep a diary , and I'm thinking about transfering the contents to an online diary , or a personal blog . Cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mickmck 716 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 joe blogs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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mickmck 716 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 couldnt resist Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cleanspade 3,324 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 be good for someone to expain the ins and outs of blogging as its not something i know much about. cheers 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonah. 775 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Don't blog myself but here's a link to one i like. http://hippo-on-the-lawn.blogspot.co.uk/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 couldnt resist must be a scrap man thing, as that was my first thought,,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomgowans 2 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Jonah, thanks for liking my blog. I will have to post more now that I know I have a reader! I also owe you my thanks because I only found this site ebcause I noticed my blog had a lot of referrals from it suddenly so I followed the link and found this thread. It's an excellent forum so i signed up immediately. Buster, (back on topic!) blogging is easy. I also like writing a sort of diary and was always dismayed when the laptop finally died and I lost all my files so a blog is great for storing your stuff somewhere relatively safe. I use Blogger. It is easy to create an account (it's something to do with Google so your ID will work for a lot of other sites too) and they have very easy to use templates which, as you get used to, you can easily customise. You don't need to have a grasp of html editing, they have a 'what you see is what you get' interface. What I did when I signed up was select that only those people I invite can see my blog. Since I had not invited anyone, the only person that could see my blog was me. That allowed me to play around, get used to it all and, above all, make mistakes in private. Often whatever looks good in the editing pane looks different when it is displayed in your web browser (the view your rreaders will see) so I kept changing the templates etc. until I was satisfied. Once I was happy, and let's face it, you need to have a bit of a practice with anything first, then I opened the blog up on my personal preferences so that it could be seen by anyone. To be honest, if you have worked out how to use this forum, you can manage blogger. Now that I am a member of The Hunting Life (thanks to you guys) I will be monitoriing this thread so if you need any advice, just ask me. My user name on this forum is tomgowans (I wrote a quick introduction to myself under New Members) and you already have the link, thanks to Jonah, for my blog. Go for it, I might be your first follower! Regards Tom Gowans Angola (the country in Africa, not the Louisiana State Penitentiary) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomgowans 2 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Cleanspade' "A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level" Sounds like Kipling, on so many levels... Mine has just given me ten puppies. Ten! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonah. 775 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Jonah, thanks for liking my blog. I will have to post more now that I know I have a reader! I also owe you my thanks because I only found this site ebcause I noticed my blog had a lot of referrals from it suddenly so I followed the link and found this thread. It's an excellent forum so i signed up immediately. Buster, (back on topic!) blogging is easy. I also like writing a sort of diary and was always dismayed when the laptop finally died and I lost all my files so a blog is great for storing your stuff somewhere relatively safe. I use Blogger. It is easy to create an account (it's something to do with Google so your ID will work for a lot of other sites too) and they have very easy to use templates which, as you get used to, you can easily customise. You don't need to have a grasp of html editing, they have a 'what you see is what you get' interface. What I did when I signed up was select that only those people I invite can see my blog. Since I had not invited anyone, the only person that could see my blog was me. That allowed me to play around, get used to it all and, above all, make mistakes in private. Often whatever looks good in the editing pane looks different when it is displayed in your web browser (the view your rreaders will see) so I kept changing the templates etc. until I was satisfied. Once I was happy, and let's face it, you need to have a bit of a practice with anything first, then I opened the blog up on my personal preferences so that it could be seen by anyone. To be honest, if you have worked out how to use this forum, you can manage blogger. Now that I am a member of The Hunting Life (thanks to you guys) I will be monitoriing this thread so if you need any advice, just ask me. My user name on this forum is tomgowans (I wrote a quick introduction to myself under New Members) and you already have the link, thanks to Jonah, for my blog. Go for it, I might be your first follower! Regards Tom Gowans Angola (the country in Africa, not the Louisiana State Penitentiary) No problem Tom, i got the link to your blog from another hunting site, so, what goes around comes around eh ? i've been into my fishing for as long as i can remember and one day will get a crack at sport fishing, would love to do it somwhere different though, definately not florida ! good site this, its got its fair share of tit heads but, no more than any other walk of life / community. there are some really knowledgable lads on here who give out good advice on all sorts, not just hunting. they dont dress it up though, so if your easily offended (which i doubt), best leave now. ATB Clive Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomgowans 2 Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Sorry for the late reply chaps. I would like to say it was because of that b*****d Gates and his crappy software but I cannot tell a lie. I was playing headers with my three year old son in what will be the kitchen of my restaurant and is currently home to three of us while our new house is being built, when I scored a direct hit on a full beer bottle which emptied itself into the keyboard of my laptop. $1,100 and several days of sweating and cursing later and I am back on line again. I´ll just post this reply and then, much to my wife's relief, go and have a shower and a shave. I hope that in the meantime, Buster is playing around with his blog preparing it for its imminent world wide release. Clive, I was going to say I always liked being given it straight but fear such sentiment may be misconstrued, let's just say I call a spade a spade. Except in Angola, of course. That can start a fight quicker than pouring a pint of brown on a Newcastle bar floor and, in a plummy accent (an affliction of mine), declaring it piss. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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