Ilona has been on the web since 1998, making a personal websites, then venturing into blogs. Liking to experiment with social media including Facebook, Twitter, and Google+1. Enjoys writing. Main site: Ilona's Garden @ ilonasgarden.com.
•Uses Wordpress and Blogger • Works with Joomla • Writes original content • Active on Squidoo • Creates graphics on Photoshop • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: garden writing, webmaster, learning about web marketing.
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I’ve used Pinterest for awhile and notice it is really taking off. It is a great way to collect a visual set of bookmarks. Like a cross between delicious, twitter, and tumblr is how I would describe it. Anyway, you might already know about it, but one feature that is a little harder to track [...]
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Problogger blog always has useful posts, and that iw why it is a top blog (among a number of other reasons). It has a plethora of guest bloggers and today an exceptionally good post centered around this piece of advice: If you think blogging is a bed of roses, or if you think everybody will [...]
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I wasn’t sure I liked it at first, and might have turned it down… but after seeing it on other friends pages, came to appreciate it. The Timeline feature basically sets up your Facebook page like a news website, and makes the older posts accessible without tedious clicking back through every single set of posts. [...]
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I decided to change my OLD old theme from the Advent blog and couldn’t find anything I liked… so I decided to try out the theme that comes with the updated version of wordpress (I always keep the backend of the blogs updated, now that it is so easy). Surprise! It has high functionality and [...]
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Tentblogger has another great series and a challenge for you to make your first $1.00 from your blog. I think it is a great idea to go through his series and see if you can monetize your blog. Why? Because domain name and hosting is something your will eventually want if you are into blogging [...]
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Gardens to see in Ohio won awards of LOTD and Purple Star on Squidoo. Each blog and website niche has its own style, and ‘Gardens to see in Ohio’ is an example of a lens that the Squidoo community approved of, and it is a very helpful resource for those wanting to visit Ohio and [...]
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For the extreme basics: What is HTML? The abbreviation of Hyper Text Markup Language. It was invented by “the father of the internet”. It is the code that writes the information you see in a visual and organized manner. A programming language, it uses a combination of tags which are encased inside the greater and [...]
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I changed my theme on Ilonasgarden.com, my garden site, again. Elegant themes created one that was far superior to the others that I had used previously. The others were clunky and slow loading, this one is much faster; it also has all the slots for a garden site: lots of images to draw interest and [...]
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I recently changed my theme template for blogger again. They have a vanilla one that is much like the one ported from Elegantthemes that I was using. I had changed the theme on my garden website, so I no longer needed something that related as closely. Still, I should brand it to relate to the [...]
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I’ve started in some new directions with my writing and webpage work, it is requiring lots of time to acquire the knowledge and do the work. That is the number one lesson for those who want to build a career in an online business: it takes work, time to learn, and time to show results. [...]
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