Stephan Miller

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Testing My New Web Only Jekyll Deployment

So Jekyll is a great choice for a blog if you don’t need to run a dynamic site and I just got tired of running a whole hackable application on a server somew...

Crickets

On the topic of crickets, you know those crickets that live in your basement that look like they were crossed with a spider on some alien planet, well...&nbs...

Phoenix

Bear with me while I try to make this thing rise from the dust. After spending the time to convert it from Wordpress to Drupal, I sort of let it sit stagnant...

It's Alive

Well kind of at least. Just switched from Wordpress to Drupal. Got tired of using plugins I needed but never could trust to be safe and for the last 8 months...

RSS, the Dark Side is Strong with You

And you thought RSS was the best thing about blogs, the advantage they have over a standard website without a feed. But think about it for a second.

Thoughts on Moving Forward

I was preparing another reason not to blog for my reasons not to blog series. It was going to be entitled “My Blog has an Identity Crisis”. But I actually ca...

Reasons Not To Blog - A Series

Image by eristoddle via Flickr A Few Weeks Ago A few weeks ago I started writing posts and saving them on my desktop. You see, each one of the posts I w...

My Top Subscribed Posts

I happened to be exploring the happened to be exploring the backend fo this blog today making sure everything was up to date, discovering what plugins I had ...

A Change in the Blog Design

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed the blog theme changed over the weekend. I didn’t really plan for that to happen. It was just the final resu...

Blog Blazers: A First Impression

Last night, I received my copy of Blog Blazers. I got it for free to review it. I can’t tell how excited I was over that. In fact, I had to analyze the excit...

Narrowing Down My Networks

You see the WTFMO widget on the side of my blog. It’s a scam. For a while there I was signing up for everything like a maniac. Not that that is a bad thing. ...

At Blog World Expo

Well, not really there. I am in a hotel room, a purple and pick one with the jet engine type air conditioner. But it works. Damn sure lot of construction goi...

Blogging is a Bitch

Okay, time to get these off my chest and write them down so that I can separate the stupid from the actual true issues.

The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan

Image via Wikipedia MMO Blogs My blog is number 53 on the top 100 Make Money Online blogs. It has hovered right that number for a while. Amazing, considerin...

The Blogging Monk

This was going to be a post about how I got away from blogging for the weekend to get back to writing. And that part’s true. I started writing it yesterday a...

A List of Top Blog Lists

I cover a lot of topics and read a lot of blogs. Up until recently, I had them all in one folder in my feed reader. Then I broke them up into folders. That t...

No More Banners Here

I decided to take the banners off the site. They didn't help with the view. And unless my traffic increases exponentially here soon, I am not going to lose a...

Feed Consolidation for Niche Blogs

One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These ...

Where I've Been Lately

I can be accused of reaching too far. I can also be accused of getting in over my head, at least for a few days at a time. But, if I had a choose between hav...

Help a Blogger Fight a Corporation

Support Vlad Zablotskyy's Defense Fund Defend your own right to free speech!   I will have to send you to a couple of other blo...

Testing the 0-60 of a New Blog

I have been trying to start another blog lately. At least, that's what I am telling myself. It's a clean slate right now and that's a good place to start. I ...

Don't Be a WP 2.5 Hater

I have had issues with Wordpress upgrades in the past. Nothing makes my day like going through the upgrade process, refreshing the page and getting a nice cl...

My Ideas on Multiblogging

Traveling Detail Light When studying a new technology, I plunge in headfirst. I have read a lot of books and from experience, despite what I learned from boo...

A Weekend of Work

This weekend I got off my butt and went down a list of things I wanted to get done. I built a list of blogs using the CommentLuv plugin over at my site ...

A Question of Semantics

A while ago I wrote a post questioning the issue of reblogging. Posts are often reblogged on meme tracking sites which use an algorithm to detect popular sto...

How to Give a Blog Post More Emphasis

Most people don't give a second thought to how the search engines work. When I explain that part of my job, I have to say something along the lines of, "...

Word Salad - A Post in the Raw

Everything blends together in my mind. I haven't figured out yet if this is normal or not. The first time I noticed this was when a boss told me to leave my ...

Your Opinion on Reblogging

I don't like rehashing. Most of the time I wait until I had something to add to a topic before I jump in, whether it be a new technique or some research resu...

The Curses of A Contact Form

Okay, now I know that I could do research and find a spam free contact form or something along those lines. But it involves a lesson that took me a long time...

How Do You Find Blogs to Comment on?

There are a few things you have to do if you want to get the word out about your blog. Joining blogging social networks helps. Writing good posts help. But y...

How Does a Blogger Do Taxes?

I love affiliate marketing. I was on cloud 9, just moved cross country and was about to do my taxes. Bam. I had killed my day job before the move. But the da...

Research Left Over From the Weekend

I was busy this weekend with projects but didn't quite get everything all finished. To clear off my web clipboard, I am putting them here for future referenc...

How Should I Monetize My Website or Blog?

If you know your niche, that's basically all you have to look at when you are searching for ways to monetize a site, along with "how big is the cut"...

Blog Monetization Strategies

Last night I sat down and decided I wanted to list all the ways to monetize a blog. Not a list of websites, but a list of types. That way I could look at the...

My Wordpress Time Machine

I think most of us know the advantage of setting our timestamps ahead on our posts. I am here but I am not. For all you know, I could have written this post ...

The Best Laid Plans

The Plans I plan to write good posts. Once, I thought blogging was just internet writing and I just spit out a few words here and left for weeks at a time. I...

What to do with my feed?

I don't know about Feedburner sometimes. It seems everyone uses the service. I like using it. But I am not sure if my subscriber count could have possibly ju...

Comment Nazis

I put a contact form on this blog just so that anyone who wanted to contact me. Well, someone did this week. I will not mention any names. But someone conta...

New Year's Resolutions

I figured I would rob a few from other blogs, considering I just made a resolution to be more active in the blogosphere a few months ago. I do have a few of ...

Creating Your Own Blogging Schedule

In the last three months or so, I have kept a pretty good schedule of blogging. It involves getting up an hour and fifteen minutes earlier each day, getting ...

How to Promote Your Wordpress Theme

Talk about an increase in traffic and I didn't have to bribe someone to digg or stumble one of my posts. I was getting really antsy to be finished with this ...

Multiple Widgets Wordpress Theme

I figured I would host all of my Wordpress experiments on another blog, Renovating Wordpress. I am going to be doing a lot with Wordpress in the next few mon...

How to Create a Blogging Network

The other day I ran into a post over at DoshDosh about the Flagship Blog Project. It's quite a schedule. A new blog every 30 days. Ever since then I have bee...

Multidimensional Posts

Every now and then in the blogosphere you run into a post that lists types of posts you can make on your blog. This is a great help if you are stuck. There i...

How to Add Images to Your Blog

I don't know if images help or detract from the content. I think I like them and have been adding them to most posts lately. I have also been bugging a lot o...

Finding a Direction

This blog has basically a mess of categories. The categories explain what is in them, but they tend to be all over the map. This is because this blog has rea...

Lazy Day Blogging

Every now and then I need an easy day. I don't want to write the 1000 word essay, teacher. I don't want to check all of my sources to insure correctness. Not...

Bookmarking Your Own Posts

I have been slowly working my through the free ebooks I have found lately. Right now I am in the middle of Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey. It is a res...

How to Move Wordpress Quickly

You can take this tutorial with a grain of salt. I have always thought that the "right" way to do things takes a little bit too long. But then agai...

Moving Day

This is going to be a quick post of thing I will be doing this weekend, if possible. I am going to be moving this blog over the weekend. I will still try to ...

The "I've Found It" Post

Some things are still pretty hard to find online, no matter what Google, Yahoo, and Live say about perfecting their search engines. Or maybe it's because eve...

Google Sitemap Errors

I hate updating Wordpress, especially minor updates. Sometimes I forget to reactivate some plugins. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have some plugins just ...

Hacking Wordpress Themes

I don't know if you can it being a perfectionist, but i can't really rest until a site I have does everything I want it to do. If it doesn't fit, it just doe...

Wordpress Plugin Hunting

I have been looking for a Wordpress plugin that will make the reading of tutorials that span more than one post easier. By default, Wordpress will sort posts...

What's Holding Me Back From Blogging

What has been holding me back from blogging? Time and the wasting of it. I have yet to quit my day job and do this full time, I have two kids, and I am the o...

Fixing Wordpress Feed Error Issues

I was adding Feedburner to my site today. I had use it once, switched templates and put off editing the template. Then I realized my feed had an error in it....

Blogging Post Shooting Star

This whole keeping up with things on the internet can get addictive. Getting to a Digg story and being number 1351 to digg it is kind of deflating, but havin...

I'm Back

The existence of only one post on my blog is a result of Hostica.com's policy of shutting down accounts with the word of one email. Hostica is the worst host...