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7 Things I Wish I Did Differently As A New Blogger
January has come which means its that time again where many people set a new years resolution to start a blog. Most of these blogs will fail, but some don’t. I started my blog at new year and here I am 7 years later still blogging. I’ve learned a lot over that time, so I thought I would share 7 things I wish I did differently as a new blogger. There is a reason for me doing this. I don’t want any bloggers to make the same mistakes I did when getting started in the whole blogging world. I’ve been blogging for a long time and I’ve learned a lot…
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Looking Back On 2019 & My 2020 Goals
How has everyone’s festive season been? My immune system thought the best way to say goodbye to 2019 would be if I came down with a cold once university was finished. I’m not even joking. I started feeling ill almost immediately after my last meeting of the semester. I’m currently trying to write this post while dealing with said cold. Like previous years I have decided to start 2020 by looking back over 2019 and discussing some of my highlights. Overall it has been quite a good year. We had some important family-related stuff happen this year. I didn’t achieve quite as much compared to 2018, but still, it has…
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I Quit Social Media For A Week
Recently one of my university projects focused on data visualisation. The brief was to take a set of data and create an infographic which displays that information in a way that is easy to understand. As part of this brief, I had to create an infographic based on a piece of personal data. I had a number of ideas for my personal data infographic and one of those was how much I use my phone each day. From this, I learned that I unlock my phone around 60 times each day. Even worse I spend about an hour each day on Instagram. As a result of this, I decided to…
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Ghost Shell | Pipdig WordPress Theme Review
Recently I had a little revamp of my blog and as part of it bought a new WordPress theme. I’ve seen so many people on Twitter talk about the Pipdig WordPress themes so that was one of the places I looked at and eventually bought from. I’ve heard so much hype about Pipdig that I’ve actually avoided it because of that. But after buying one of their themes I was pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be. PIPDIG WORDPRESS THEME REVIEW Pipdig is a UK based company which creates blog themes for Blogger and WordPress blogs (self-hosted blogs, not WordPress.com). They make nicely designed affordable blog themes.…
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How To Write A Blog Post
Today I thought I would share my process for writing a blog post. It may sound like a tiny detail, but writing technically good posts really helps your blog to grow. I also have a few tips on how to make your blog posts better. Photos: The first thing I do when starting a new blog post is take the photographs. You don’t have to do it the same way but I find that being able to see the photos helps me write the blog post. You don’t need a fancy camera for taking photos, my advice is to always use the best camera you have at hand. If I’m…