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Self Development Books Author On WordPress
As a self development books author, I do a lot of writing not only for my books like The Life Champion In You, but also a lot of articles and blog posts (not to mention videos). When I first started on on blogs, I used Blogger which was really easy to use.
I then switched over to WordPress since I wanted a blog that would be part of my self development and motivational speaker website. I started on WordPress by using their default Kubrick theme which was a real bear to modify to my liking.
Now With Twenty Ten WordPress Theme
Over this past weekend, I decided to update all of my websites and blogs to set them to fit a wider screen size since before, it was set mainly for 800 pixels. I wanted to change everything to a minimum of 1024 pixels in screen width. The websites were easy enough but for the WordPress blogs, I had to change to a new theme.
So I tried the new WordPress default theme which is called Twenty Ten (probably because it was introduced in 2010). All of my WordPress blogs have now been switched over to that theme. I wanted something easy to use so that I don’t have to waste time on technical stuff. I would much rather utilize my time on writing new articles and self development books.
The only modifications I did was use a new header graphic, my own menus, remove the blog main titles from some of the blogs and retained the same main elements used in the sidebars. These modifications were really easy compared to doing the same things with the old Kubrick theme.
The only thing that I did have to do some research on was to switch the sidebar from the default right side of the blog over to the left. But once I found out which changes to make, these were also pretty straight forward. Overall the Twenty Ten theme is such a nicer WordPress theme to work with and it’s much easier on the eyes too.
There are fancier WordPress themes out there as Twenty Ten is quite basic but that’s okay. My self development blog is easy to read and functional, nothing fancy. Since I’m a motivational speaker, I’ll let my Motivational WebTV videos that are posted on this blog do the fancy work.
Other Blogs By Self Development Author
Here are the other WordPress blogs in addition to this one that I maintain just in case you might be interested in any of these areas. Note that they are from a variety of fields and not necessarily related to self development books.
WordPress by the way, is included for free as part of web hosting at Bluehost which is the service I use.
While still on the blogging and tech subjects, if you would like to learn how to easily follow all of your blogs at once, see my video tutorial on Google Reader.
Keep up the good work. Continue to work on your success.
Thank you. I will keep trying to improve the websites to make it a better experience for my visitors.
Thanks very much for your post.