Deploy Your dotCom Sites Easily With Free Website Templates

Posted on August 4, 2008
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For most part, getting a cool good looking website is a challenge to most webpreneurs and internet junkies. One aspect of driving good traffic and make your visitors stay in your website is attributed to having “handsome” looking web pages.

For internet entrepreneurs like me (well, after 6 months of regular online presence – I have considered myself an internet entrepreneur already and still trying to make money online), getting the best domain names and making them look good are essential to increase your chance of success.

And designing real good looking websites isn’t everyone’s thing - unless you’re a ChiQ Montes or a Bryan Gardner. Fortunately, just a few googling and you would get a listing of thousands of websites offering free website templates. However not all free website templates are created equal – and the designs should not be restricted to just a few theme and appearance. The website template, even if it’s free, should give your site a unique personality, and represents your idea of having a great looking website.

This blog is using a free template but it’s the closest to represent my preferences on how my site should look like. Even if it’s free, and probably lots of other bloggers are using the same template, somehow if you’re a regular visitor here, you immediately identify the site once it gets loaded (well, I’m transferring to a new host for a faster performance – but it’s a different story I got to write soon).

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Bloggista.com Upgraded to Wordpress MU 2.6

Posted on August 3, 2008
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Stop Hello folks! If you are experiencing some problems with this blog, or may be unable to load the pages for a few minutes, it’s because Bloggista.com is upgrading to the newest version of Wordpress MU 2.6.

This should be done in less than 15 minutes. 5 hours.

Update: Whew, the plugins blew it off. Upgrading to new Wordpress version was a jiffy but upgrading the plugins weren’t. Some didn’t worked after the upgrade. So, I got to let go of the Popularity Post by Alex King, Gregarious, WP-Cache (replaced by WP-Super-Cache), and a few more.

Next Activity: Moving this blog to a new host - that’ll be in about 3 days.

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On SONA and the Politics Business

Posted on August 2, 2008
Filed Under Business, Politics, Side Posts | 8 Comments

Politics and Freedom Lately, the “most unpopular” President (of all time?) based on the recent survey of the Social Weather Station (SWS) delivered her annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) in front of both Houses in Congress and was shown “live” on National Television.

As with previous SONA (and even on previous administrations), some people are marching in the streets protesting against the “lies” and “deceptions” and “fairy tales” contained in the SONA message. Some, as expected, delivered their own Kontra-SONA. While some were having a grand time of their lives in the “hallowed” halls of Congress on their best clothes and jewelries - in short, it was another circus on nationwide TV. Call it entertaining, boring show, horror flick, or an action-adventure-fantasy combo entertainment.

But President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo, this time, earned my admiration. Whether her actions are good for the country is one thing every Filipino will reckon with once her term is up - but the fact that we Filipinos NEED a President (and Politicians) who doesn’t care if their actions are popular or not. Now going back to the SONA details - and why those deserved a space on this blog - precisely because those decisions made by the President affect us all - the way we earn our daily wages either from business, or employment.

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SEO, Traffic and Money

Posted on July 31, 2008
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Recently, as part of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experiment (inspired by the SEO experiments of the great SEO Teacher over at Mapiles.com), I experienced what big time bloggers and webmasters probably experienced on their blogs and websites when they regularly get high volume of traffic.

The Nursing Board Exam 2008 Results posted on Bloggista.org (my new blog site where I intend to blog about the buzz in blogosphere including current events, news - anything that a passionate blogger, or a bloggista finds interesting) generated more than 50,000 page views within the first 24-hours, and reached my personal milestone of 100,000 page views in less than a week.

I got to admit, I am still a newbie on blogging and driving traffic. I’m still learning how to write good articles - and drive regular traffic to my sites. And experiencing such traffic which is normal or even less for some was already awesome. That was more than 6 months worth of page views I got for Bloggista.com and was just achieved by Bloggista.org in just one day! Fairly unfair wasn’t it?

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