Blogging Fool

But I missed a little step: how to make my content as easy and enjoyable to read as possible for my new readers. One of the best ways to do this is to follow the tried and true format of the three elements of a good article:

The Headline
The Teaser
The Content

I called upon a MySQL/php expert friend to see if he could figure out why my image tags were being stripped upon saving from my WYSIWYG editor, but he wasn’t versed in phpnuke so it was a bit of a long search for him and since I was pulling a favor, I just couldn’t ask him to take on the long search through the dozens of files where the problem could lie.

For the aspiring blogger, the idea that bringing something fresh and exciting to the table should be rewarded is perhaps the first misconception they will have about why some blogs seem to have all the fun and attention (and revenue).

One of the first mistakes I made when I started building my own “self-hosted” Wordpress blogs was what any kid with a shiny new nickel might – I ran around the plugins directory and gorged myself on every wicked new app out there, hoping to build the Ultimate Star Destroyer of all Blogs with my massive arsenal of killer addons.

This was good for a while, and I am glad I had the opportunity to test out different combinations, but one day I woke up to a text message that one of my key sites had the most terrifying message known to any site admin:

“This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact us immediately.”