
Every now and then the subject comes up – What do I use to blog? Let me give you a quick rundown of my blogging essentials:
WordPress.org - Here’s where it all starts. WordPress.org provides the major framework for this site. Without it I wouldn’t be able to set up a place where I could write and we could all communicate on the articles. WordPress.org is free to download but you need a hosting plan somewhere else in order to get it up and running.
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Maybe you’ve seen some ads on the web. Perhaps you heard about it on the local news. I don’t know about you but I’ve been hearing about Groupon everywhere! So what is this Groupon all about?!?
Groupon (group+coupon) is a site that offers up a daily deal on some of the best attractions, eateries, and shops in your area (well, in lots of areas so far).
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Sometimes it can feel like you're trapped in debt!
I still remember the first day of class at college. The professor walks into the classroom and hands you a piece of paper called a syllabus. In that paper is all of the work you will complete over a four month period. However, you automatically begin to feel overwhelmed. How, you ask yourself, am I going to finish all of this?
In my case, I would total up all of the number of pages that needed to be read in a semester. I would then take that number and divide it by the number of days in the semester. Suddenly, reading 15 pages per day seems a lot more manageable than reading four books.
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