Category: Website stuff

No comments – why blog?

Some of you who don’t blog may wonder why bloggers keep posting when few people respond with Comments. Some bloggers are just keeping an online journal for themselves, so it doesn’t matter at all, but in my case, the reason is that I have stats and a visitor map...
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How to annoy your Web site visitors

There are some really bad Web sites out there. A recent article at eMarketer focusses on slow-loading sites that kill sales, but many other annoyances are listed as well – click here for the archived version of the whole article. Although pop-up ads are listed in virtually every survey...
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Blogging and journaling

With the rapidly increasing popularity of blogs and photo-sharing sites, somebody had to put them together. Some folks enjoy figuring out how to make online journals/blogs/scrapbooks user-friendly, but most just want a free or low-cost turn-key operation. Our Story looks like it may be the solution for them. The...
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Blogging North

Ever since I started this blog I’ve been looking for a good directory of other Northern blogs, with no luck. I found a few directories that claimed to have just Alaska or Yukon blogs, but they’ve all been infiltrated by pretenders. Persistence pays, though, (okay, it can also give...
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A new format and server

I’ve just moved the blog to my own server because it’s faster than the WordPress one I was using at http://explorenorth.wordpress.com/. There’s no way to move the previous posts, so we’ll just have to start over again. I’m still playing with designs, backgrounds and plugins, so you may see...
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I’ve Moved the Blog

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I’ve moved the blog to my own server, as this WordPress one slows down too much in the morning when traffic gets heavy, making both posting and reading frustrating. The old URL was http://explorenorth.wordpress.com, the new one is http://www.explorenorth.com/wordpress/...
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Welcome North!

Hi – welcome to my new blog! Since blogs are the way to communicate nowadays, it’s time I joined in. The ExploreNorth Blog will be the more casual, more-often-written version of Explorenorth’s email newsletter, with much more than just notes about Web site updates. With Spring just now arriving in a serious way,...
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