Nerdcore test post 1
Month: April 2021
This is a sentence.
“It takes less than half the time to do something up right the first time
than it does to rush the details and get it all wrong, just to have to figure
out the wrongness of it all, then go back in and fix it up to rights again.“
~~ Roxana Love Hart, fictional Y’allywood Damsel
… and …
“If you’re going to do a thing, research the details and do it right the first time.“
~~ my father, any time I’d ask if there were an easier way.
Re., the Category & Tag Descriptions for this website
These truisms have been drilled into my head since I was a small child, to the point that – now, as an adult – I quite often get bogged down in the “preparing everything so I can do it right” stage so that I never get around to the actual doing of it. That’s part of the point of this website – to stop over-preparing and get to actually factually doing and sharing the things that I want to share about doing.
It’s really hard to make a website that talks about all that if you can’t put those things into coherent words. As an author, it’s ever important to me that the words I use – especially my public words or things like the Category and Tag descriptions for any post that I make – be precisely accurate descriptions of those topics about which I write.
In keeping with all that, I’ve taken an afternoon here at the outset of website creation to complete all of the Category and Tag descriptions that I plan to use and pledge to complete the same for any that get added in the future. It’s important to me that you – my readers – find it easy to navigate to those posts or projects about which you most want to read; defining my terms upfront – so that it’s easier for you to succeed with any given Search – is the best means at my disposal to making that happen.
Happy reading, writing, searching, making, and doing, dear peeps!
Plan Your Content
If you’re considering adding a blog to your site, you’ll want to have a plan beforehand. Planning your blog will help your subject matter remain consistent over time. It’ll also help you determine whether or not there’s enough material to maintain a steady stream of posts.
One pitfall many new bloggers run into is starting a blog that isn’t updated frequently enough. A shortage of recent posts can give your visitors a bad impression of your business. One may think “I wonder if they’re still in business” or “they may want to hire a writer.”
A blog, like any other customer-facing aspect of your business, communicates your brand. If it isn’t maintained and given proper attention, people will notice. Post regularly and keep your content fresh. Give your audience a reason to visit often.
Categories and Tags
If you write about a variety of subjects, categories can help your readers find the posts that are most relevant to them. For instance, if you run a consulting business, you may want some of your posts to reflect work you’ve done with previous clients while having other posts act as informational resources. In this particular case, you can set up 2 categories: one labeled Projects and another labeled Resources. You’d then place your posts in their respective categories.
Pages vs. Posts
If you’re new to WordPress you may be wondering what’s the big deal behind Pages and Posts. At first glance they appear to be one and the same: if you were to create either a new page or a new post you’d be presented with nearly identical interfaces and in many cases the public appearance of pages and posts will look the same.
Don’t let this fool you. There’s a very fundamental difference between the two and that difference is what makes CMSs, like WordPress, great platforms for integrating blogs with traditional websites.
Pages
Think about the kind of pages that make up a typical website. Most often you’ll see pages like “Home”, “About Us”, “Services”, “Contact Us”, etc. Within WordPress these are often treated as Pages; documents that have no particular regard for the time they were posted.
For example, when you visit the “About Us” page of your favorite company’s website you don’t expect the content to be very different from what was available there a week ago.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
~~ WordPress loves me; this I know
~~ for their Auto-Post told me so;
~~ I’ll now go make Pages & Posts
~~ for my Peeps what loves me most!
… just a silly little ditty
… not about Jack but from Diane