Dummies Of The Year

Dummies Of The Year: Short Reports On Half-Baked Decisions

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CNN, This Is How You Add An Avatar

Something that is starting to drive me CRAZY!  Blogs that make it into the Blogs of the Day and they haven’t even figured out how to add an Avatar to their blog.  They can write good enough material to make it into the BOTD but they have a boring/plain Avatar.  As I write this there is one of these plain Avatars setting at #2.  It is CNN Politics: Has Palin snubbed Oprah? If CNN doesn’t have a clue then how many other bloggers are blogging with a boring Avatar?

Don’t worry becuase I am going to give you step by step directions on how to add an Avatar.

Step 1: Log into your WordPress account.

Step 2: Once you log in to your account click on the name of your site located underneath your boring Avatar (left side of screen).

Step 3: This step use to be more simple but now we have WordPress 2.7.  Don’t worry because it is still easy enough.  Find the Users heading.  Now click on the arrow to the right of it.  A menu will drop down and you should see a Authors & Users, Your Profile, and Invites.  Click on Your Profile.

Step 4: On the right side of the screen you will see My Picture.  This is wear you can upload a picture of your choice from your computer.  The picture should be the same width and height.  If you need to re-size a photo I prefer Photobucket.  Once your done browsing for a photo click Upload Image.

Step 5: Now you will see Crop uploaded image.  Click on the bottom right dotted-line and your picture should crop to the correct place.  Now click Crop Image.

Step 6: All Done! That’s it.  I have had to wait up to half an hour to see my new, shiny, Avatar.

PS: Remember that even if you choose an ugly picture for your Avatar it will be much, much better than a generic generated Avatar that WordPress provides.  Come on CNN, it is time to change your Avatar.

How To Increase Traffic To Your Site

I have two blogs.  This one and another that I am not going to tell you about

The other blog I have put my heart and soul into.  I almost have 10,000 hits which is fairly normal for as long as the blog has been on.  This blog is just my “I am not going to try very hard blog.”  Well I haven’t and this blog has had on average more hits than my first love.  Why have I had more hits on this site?  Well I will give you three tips.

1. Write a post that is really catchy in the headlines.  My example is I jumped on the bandwagon of Sarah Palin and the bikini incedent.  I claimed that I had pictures of Sarah Palin in a Bikini.  Well if you want to see this post then go here: Sarah Palin in a Bikini

2. I did a follow up post to Sarah Palin in a Bikini called Senator Clinton in a bikini.  Don’t ask me why but I have received quite a few hits on this post.  Who in their right mind wants to see Senator Clinton in a bikini…well if you are not in your right mind then you can go here: Senator Clinton in a bikini

3. The last tip I will give you is actually just a theory so I don’t know if it works yet.  I figured if I wrote a post about How to increase traffic to your site I might actually increase traffic to my site.  Well if you would like to increase traffic to your site then click here: How To Increase Traffic To Your Site

At A Loss For Words

It was a rough day at the office. I had people get upset at me and judging my words strictly. It is not that my words were bad or offensive. At least that is not what I intended. I say things that are on my heart but all it takes is one person to disagree with me and then I am at a loss for words. I care about people but they sense that you don’t once you say something they just can’t agree with.

What is my office? Well it is actually another blog. A blog is supposed to be an area where we can express exactly how we feel. But lately it seems that everything I say is under a magnifying glass. That is one of the reason I am not allowing anyone to express how they feel here. Quite frankly I don’t care. It is not that I don’t care what you have to say but rather this needs to be a place where I can express what I want without some uncaring person telling me that what I think is wrong. Why would it be wrong? Is it just because a person has a different opinion? To have a different opinion is normal. In fact everyone sees the world a little different than the next, but this is not the place to tell me how you see it different. Sorry. Do hope you have a good weekend.

Until next time,

Unknown Nobody