Recent Blog Posts

Transitions are tough!

Posted By Amanda Collins on February 5, 2009

At the end of 2008, I got an LLC for my business, changing the name from The Grammar Doctor to The Grammar Doctors. With that change comes a new logo, and that means an updated Web site. I recently attended a seminar on blog sites and decided to start one though WordPress with a new domain name (effectively getting out of my old contract on the old site).

As luck would have it, I’m really unsure how to create everything I need to on WordPress. Thankfully, a colleague, Shane LaPan, suggested Elance to search for folks who would be able to create a new logo and a template for me on WordPress. In the interim, however, things are a bit “under construction” here, and I ask for your patience as I make the upgrade to the site to improve communications with you and let you know a bit more about me, my business, and how I’m expanding to meet the needs of my clients.

Frustration with WordPress

Posted By Amanda Collins on February 3, 2009

Oy. One would think it would be easy to put up a blog Web site, but alas, such is not the case – even for someone who has decent knowledge of online technologies. I built a new Web page the other day, following attendance at a 30-minute blog site seminar. They showed a WYSIWYG program that looked pretty freakin’ simple on the big screen. Now, of course, my program doesn’t look the same at all.

So I sit around trying to fight with this new program before my old site disappears and I find myself frustrated. Do I go ahead and pay the ungodly money to have someone else build my site? And how do I get X Header to work on a Mac anyway? Ugh.