Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’ve been scouring the World Wide Web for Blogger templates, recently. I’ve come across quite a few websites that have extremely classy templates! I’m happy to see that Blogger users have more choices available to them today. When I was with Blogger, 10 years ago now, the templates were horrid, and there were only a [...]

Ouch. Haloscan, that blog commenting software that has been around for years, is closing the service. This is from their website. Haloscan, the legacy comment system that JS-Kit acquired last year, is physically starting to fail (the software and hardware). In order to minimize the disruption for users and avoid a hard stop, we have [...]

I had Bluehost as my web hosting company for a year. I am a professional blogger (that is, I am paid to blog for various articles), and I run a dozen blogs. I need a reliable web host. I DID NOT find Bluehost reliable. I was paying over $100 a year for unending frustrations. Bluehost [...]

I’ve been using the Lijit Search Engine widget for a few of my blogs for a few months now, and I have to say: I LOVE IT! Lijit is a plugin for WordPress, Typepad, and Blogger blogs. Any blogger who writes informatively really should have this widget– Lijit is so impressive and so powerful that [...]

Ouch. That’s gotta hurt. Some of my favorite blogs are with the Today.com network, and they make up a good percentage of my Entrecard friends and droppers. Entrecard is rather unstable these days, deciding one day to commence monumental changes to the community (like forcing bloggers to accept advertisers on the widgets), and the next, [...]

Here’s another example of why any serious blogger– or even the casual blogger who cares for his blog– should consider leaving Blogger and going with one’s own domain and web host service. Google Deletes Blogger Posts Ryan Spaulding: Beginning last summer, I slowly began to notice that several older posts were beginning to disappear. This [...]