Yellow Dog Ventures

The post title asks the very important question: Can I write articles after all?

My answer is, yes, maybe I can! I’m going to hold off on being too thrilled yet and give it some time.

I am one of those that has had a horrible time trying to write articles. I have felt dead, no ideas, no flow, no energy, etc. Now I recently joined a blog network for backlinks and posting original articles is a requirement. In doing this, I have started to feel some flow and ease with writing conversationally about a topic after just a… Continue reading

So, what’s going on with the eBay Partner Network?

I’m hearing that they are trimming the number of affiliates in their network and they’re doing this without warning or much explanation. Hm. I’m not sure anyone knows what the criteria are that eBay is using, so many affiliates are pretty scared. Posters on the eBay forum seem to feel pretty angry and pretty helpless. No clear explanation is coming from eBay at all.

Now I have several sites with eBay ads on them and have earned some commission, but nothing breathtaking yet. If they’re going to dump… Continue reading

Okay, so I wrote that using the WordPress Automatic Update plugin was great and the upgrade went smoothly and everything was wonderful.

Well it wasn’t.

Thank goodness I had backups.

When I published a post using WordPress 2.6 my screen went totally white. Same thing for the other blog that I upgraded to 2.6.

So, what do I learn from this?

Restoring a database from cPanel went very smoothly. This was my first experience having to do this and the thought of it had always made me very nervous. Not anymore.

I’m pretty sure the blank screen problem lies with WP 2.6 and not… Continue reading

Wow! It’s done. I just upgraded this blog to the newest version of wp and it was a piece of cake.

When I posted earlier about using the WordPress Automatic Update plugin, I wrote a couple words of caution about the backups and upgrading the database. I take them both back. Seeing the process work again, it is obvious when to download the backups and I had no issues with passwords. Very cool.

Highly recommended plugin.

Next step is to really get comfortable with Wordpress version 2.6… Continue reading

My plan today is to upgrade this blog to the new WordPress version 2.6. Right now it’s still at 2.3.3.

I am currently using version 2.5.1 with a number of blogs and really like some of the features, particularly when it comes to managing plugins. With 2.5.1 you can automatically upgrade plugins when a new version becomes available. This is such a time saver (rather than downloading the new version, unzipping it and uploading it to the server…).

While Fantastico is cool for installing blogs, I have preferred not to use it because I prefer to name the database… Continue reading