So, this is my beginners attempt, I am building, changing and adjusting this site as I write this. Cabin fever results.

This is NOT about politics, is IS about America. Enjoy.

http://conservativerv.com/

Good luck with the new site Linda. I know how time consuming they can be.

One piece of advice on the look is I would ditch the tiled background, it is really distracting to the reader. IMHO

Other wise looks like a good start.

Cheers Ray

Thank you for the feedback, I was working on this, I really do not like the "tile" but I can not seem to get rid of it.  I have since fixed it to a hopefully soothing solid 'blue'.

Thank you Lucky Mike!

It does - and will - continue to take a lot of work, but I am enjoying the learning process. Hope you will check back in from time to time to see my progress - or my goof ups - LOL

Thanks so much Racerguy! That's a great compliment

Ann,

Good Luck on the new site....will definitely be adding to our favorites to follow....and it is about time!

Thank you and GOD Bless,

Les

Linda,

Now that you have your blog started, you might consider also putting your blog link into the signature area of your profile.  That way, each time that you make a comment, your blog link will be available to all, especially if you refer to something that you wrote.  Just be sure and set the link to "Open in a New Window" so that we can navigate back and forth between your blog and your comment on the forums.

Congratulations on the blog.  I hope you do a lot better than I have, as I've not been very good lately about writing anything.

Terry

Thanks Terry & Jo,

I have added the link to my signature (hopefully correctly).

I hope to be able to keep up writing on it for friends, family and RVers to see; I am not on Face Book, so I hope to use this instead.

I really appreciate your feedback

It does work right now.  As a moderator, I have "permissions" that most forum participants don't have, so I was able to go into your signature and make your link open in a new window.  One does that by using the "Target" field in the window for setting the links to be active.  The "Target" field allows one to choose "Open in a New Window" and that is the correct format.

Terry

Linda,
I love your blog concept. I started a blog just before we went full time several months ago and am still learning but stick with it and it will grow and amaze you. It is so rewarding when you get good comments from readers. There are so many of us out here who are very conservative but seldom heard because those who are not have such a huge loud speaker, the media. I added a link to your blog to the blogroll on our blog http://robandmeinourlittlerv.blogspot.com/
Best of luck and keep up the good work on behalf of our great nation.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

I just realized my first mistake: I put this under "Forum Member Non-Rving Blogs" ----> I think not! It certainly is about RVing! LOL!

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Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

I just realized my first mistake: I put this under "Forum Member Non-Rving Blogs" ----> I think not! It certainly is about RVing! LOL!

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Heh....

....I just corrected that minor mistake.

Terry

Thanks Terry & Jo, I appreciate that easy? fix.

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Thanks Terry & Jo, I appreciate that easy? fix.

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Yep.  An easy fix.  Three mouse clicks and it's done.

I'll also keep an eye on your blog.  Take a look at my forum profile and you will see that I've described myself as a Christian and a conservative.  The only difference is that on my blog I do get political at times.

Terry

Nice beginning, as an InfoWarrior and a webmaster with like 10 blogs, I appreciate your work.  If you need advice on plugins or autoblogging, let me know. 

Hi Linda, I'm working on one of my blogs now; lock down your comments, only allow comments with approval, and from registered users; a handy plugin is "delete pending comments" for when the SEO comment bots hit you; you may find dozens of wierd comments, all with links. Those are from other websites trying to sneak links onto blogs to get higher search engine rankings (which does not work anyways) http://www.nkuttler.de/wordpress/delete-pending-comments/

Another one I like is SEO Ultimate, it can add a lot, such as description headers, a place to insert banners, autolinking keywords, etc: http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/

NextScripts social network autoposter (does Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Tumblr, Blogger, etc automatically) http://www.nextscripts.com/social-networks-auto-poster-for-wordpress

Contact form: http://contactform7.com/ Some Wordpress blogs are difficult to get a contact form working.

And Simple AdSense insertion: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com Wordpress blogs will sometimes screw up codes, such as Pay Pal buttons, You Tube videos, Skype, etc, and this one will protect those, and keep them working.

Edit by moderator: Activated links.  Terry

Hina, thank you so much!

Learning those plugins I must say is quite the challenge, but its also fun exploring them. I think it took me a whole day to figure out the twitter feed!

It's good to know you are here. Thanks for your support.

Candy and Dave,

Thanks for the following

Hi Hina,

I was wondering if you do, and what you use to encrypt photos on your web sites? Is it wise to do so, especially if you want to sell photos?

There is so much information on this stuff, it is I must say, overwhelming to a newbie to my own website

Thank you in advance ~ or anyone else on the forum ~ for your advise

Linda,

I can't answer your question as to encrypting one's photos, but I do have a word of caution. Even if the photos are encrypted, someone can "steal" the photo off of your site.  The thief will not likely have an image with good resolution, but they can use a $50 program called "Snag-It" to highlight your photo, or any other portion of your website, and save it in a choice of various file formats.

When I was writing the instructions for posting links into forum posts, I used Snag-It to get the sections of the screen that I wanted and made them into jpg files for posting into the instructions.

Terry

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Wow, so will Snag-it grab a photo from a flash site?

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Forest and Cindy,

I'm going to say "yes," but with a possible conditions that not all Flash type sites would be subject to capture.  I don't know what attributes Flash may have that would defeat Snag-It's capabilities.

I've just captured an image of something from a static (non-moving) "flash" website and got an image of the web page.

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

This next one was taken from a flash site where the image on the screen "scrolls" left or right as one moves the mouse cursor.  After I "activated" the Snag-It capture button, I could move over the "screen" and the image did not scroll on the website any more. 

http://scruffs-game.com/

Oh, and I've noticed that the Scruffs need an RV.

This next one was taken from a site where some images on the home page operated in a "slideshow."  I was afraid that the image that one would want to get would change before one could "capture" the image wanted.  I was pleased to see that once that Snag-It is activated for capture, the slide show paused.  With this one, I did a quick capture and didn't just choose the image area, but since the slideshow stops, one would likely be able to just highlight just what one wanted to capture.

http://www.testemale-photos.com/

Now, none of these images seem to be really great with regards to resolution, although I had to resize each of them to fit on the forum page.

Terry

Caryn,

Snag-It will allow one to highlight any portion of or all of an image or whatever is showing on the screen.

This first image is a small portion of the desktop background on my computer at the moment.

Now, the full image of one of yours:

This is but part of that same image:

Part of yet another of your images:

So, the answer to your question is "YES, Snag-it can get it."  I've not worked with it, but there is something similar as a part of Windows 7.  See below for an image done with "Snipping Tool" in Windows Accessories.

All of the above images from your Smugmug are roughly 66k or less in file size.

Terry

Delete Pending Comments: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delete-pending-comments/ 

Captcha for WP: http://wordpress.org/search/captcha

Thank you so much Hina!

I will check these out right now