Comments on: Old and New Friends of the Website Kind http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/ Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Suz http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5538 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:52 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5538 I'm with the other commenters... the brown is a bit gloomy, athough the background works. Perhaps a brighter picture of the world that would still keep with your themes? Also, I'm excited about the return of travelholic... Let me know if you need any bits and peices written for you- I'd love to help out with the regions I know. I love sociable as a plugin. It's great. Check out Dave's travel blog at http://gobackpacking.com/blog for some great stuff. I especially enjoy the 'how long on the road' plugin he uses. Good luck! I’m with the other commenters… the brown is a bit gloomy, athough the background works. Perhaps a brighter picture of the world that would still keep with your themes? Also, I’m excited about the return of travelholic… Let me know if you need any bits and peices written for you- I’d love to help out with the regions I know.

I love sociable as a plugin. It’s great.
Check out Dave’s travel blog at http://gobackpacking.com/blog for some great stuff. I especially enjoy the ‘how long on the road’ plugin he uses.

Good luck!

]]> by: Kirsty http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5517 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:46 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5517 I miss good ol' Travoholic. Still unrevived as of yet, but I will keep you posted on the efforts. I tend to be a bit boring when it comes to colour choices. I will try to come up with something a bit more exciting-ish. Thanks for the plugin suggestions Matt. Audrey I really love how your site is laid out. How did you set things up so you have sub categories in your category list? Something like that would be perfect but I have no idea how to pull it off. As for managing lots of sites... I guess I just love doing it so things just seem to eventually get done. But the real trick is having sites that don't take much love to keep them going like my old friend Travoholic and the city guide sites I run. Updates every now and then seem to be ok. Blogs are a time suck though, but I like them. I think most of my time these days is spent on my blogs and they don't generate any money. Go figure. I miss good ol’ Travoholic. Still unrevived as of yet, but I will keep you posted on the efforts.

I tend to be a bit boring when it comes to colour choices. I will try to come up with something a bit more exciting-ish.

Thanks for the plugin suggestions Matt.

Audrey I really love how your site is laid out. How did you set things up so you have sub categories in your category list? Something like that would be perfect but I have no idea how to pull it off.

As for managing lots of sites… I guess I just love doing it so things just seem to eventually get done. But the real trick is having sites that don’t take much love to keep them going like my old friend Travoholic and the city guide sites I run. Updates every now and then seem to be ok. Blogs are a time suck though, but I like them. I think most of my time these days is spent on my blogs and they don’t generate any money. Go figure.

]]> by: Audrey http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5513 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:50:44 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5513 I also love the title Wanderstruck, but agree with Scribetrotter that the current color scheme on the header is bit dull/dark. As for flickr, the trick there is using one of the uploading tools (I use picturesync) so that you can do all your work offline (titles, tags, descriptions) and then press "upload" when you got a connection. This saves us when we've got hundreds of photos to upload but a connection only once every few days. I also admire how you're able to keep so many websites afloat, stocked with new content and monetized while you're on the road. Impressive! I also love the title Wanderstruck, but agree with Scribetrotter that the current color scheme on the header is bit dull/dark.

As for flickr, the trick there is using one of the uploading tools (I use picturesync) so that you can do all your work offline (titles, tags, descriptions) and then press “upload” when you got a connection. This saves us when we’ve got hundreds of photos to upload but a connection only once every few days.

I also admire how you’re able to keep so many websites afloat, stocked with new content and monetized while you’re on the road. Impressive!

]]> by: Nomadic Matt http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5419 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:04:34 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5419 I don't know how you time for so many websites. I barely have time for one! !! But I guess the longer you have one the less work that needs to be done on it. As for plugins, good wordpress plugins are "related posts" "sociable" and "Recent comments." On the backend side, all in one seo, statpress, and google xml are all good. I don’t know how you time for so many websites. I barely have time for one! !! But I guess the longer you have one the less work that needs to be done on it.

As for plugins, good wordpress plugins are “related posts” “sociable” and “Recent comments.” On the backend side, all in one seo, statpress, and google xml are all good.

]]> by: Scribetrotter http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5363 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/25/old-and-new-friends-of-the-website-kind/#comment-5363 Hi Kirsty, I'm delighted you're going to revive Travoholic - I have a soft spot for that site so hope it works out. As for Wanderstruck, like you I love the title. You're right about the masthead colour though - it is a bit gloomy given the free spirit behind it! Something a bit brighter and more textured would draw me in more... but it's already great as is... Hi Kirsty,

I’m delighted you’re going to revive Travoholic - I have a soft spot for that site so hope it works out.

As for Wanderstruck, like you I love the title. You’re right about the masthead colour though - it is a bit gloomy given the free spirit behind it! Something a bit brighter and more textured would draw me in more… but it’s already great as is…

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