Feature and Follow is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee!
Question: Confess your blogger sins! Is there anything as a newbie blogger that you've done, that as you gained more experience you were like -- oops?
Answer: Oh gosh. Even though I've already been blogging for about 6 months, I still consider myself a newbie. I'm still learning as I go along, but one of the more major mistakes I made back in the day....would have to be linking book reviews. I was sooo frustrated when I first began, because I just couldn't figure out how to link posts and transfer them all onto one specific page dedicated to book reviews. So instead of doing that, I wrote all my reviews on separate pages. Which didn't go over so well, because as you can deduce, I ran out of pages once I reached 20 reviews. After many days of hair pulling and face palming, I finally discovered how to do it by clicking random buttons! :D Hurrah! I feel like such a idiot now. *Looks away ashamed*
How about you? What mistakes have you made?
I think one of my favorite things about this hop so far is seeing so many beautiful blogging designs. Your site is gorgeous! I'm new, too and making mistakes left and right. I still don't have a review policy up, I'm requesting way too many things from netgalley, and I'm already behind on my reading and I'm brand new at this! :) *waves hi*
ReplyDeleteOOoh, mixing up pages and posts. Man, I bet that was fun to fix.
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My FF
It's hard when you first start out. I know when I started there weren't too many other bloggers so I was really on my own in trying to figure things out!
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Have a GREAT weekend!
Old Follower :)
We've all been there in terms of coding! I remember Wordpress driving me up the wall with the menu options and how to link up pages, etc. It took me an entire weekend and when I realized it was so easy to do I wanted to bang my head against a wall.
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Don't worry Daphne that's the fantastic thing about blogging you just learn new things all the time.
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I'd like to also extend my invite into listing your blog at YA Blogosphere it's a directory listing for all YA-related blogs. If your interested pls email me at yablogosphere@gmail.com
Have a great weekend!
The best thing about the blog world is all the nice people out there! If you have trouble, just ask a blogger and I´m sure a lot of people would love to give advice! =)
ReplyDeleteHere is my FF: http://ratherbarefoot.blogspot.se/2013/03/follow-friday.html
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Don't be embarrassed! I'm sure we all have experienced things like that. I know I have :)
ReplyDeleteOh, I click random things all the time! It's great. I always forget how I did something, so I have to relearn every time! New follower from FF
ReplyDeleteI think you learn a lot through your mistakes.
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Technology is certainly not my best friend so I feel you on this one! I have to call my computer engineer husband into the room all the time to be like....fix it! I'm still learning! I'm glad I've found your blog and will be back to visit! New follower via GFC. Here's my FF http://paigedanielsnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/03/feature-and-follow-friday.html
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem, but in a different way. I couldn't figure out how to make a separate page to put the links for my reviews on. It took my about a week to figure it out.
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http://kimberlysnovelnotes.blogspot.com/2013/03/friday-56-23-feature-friday-22.html
I'm terrible at figuring out the technical stuff with blogging platforms too. HTML and CSS is so over my head, it's insane.
ReplyDeleteGoogle saves me time and time again....especially when it comes to anything with my blog that I can't figure out.
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Holly @ Words Fueled by Love
It was hard for me as well, I'm still trying to learn how the blogging world works. Thanks for stopping by my blog :)
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Jackie @Jackie's Book World
I'm not sure I know how to do that LOL so don't feel ashamed. I also don't know how to link like everyone else does in the comments.
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Thankfully you found out how to figure it out so that you can write more reviews! Thanks for visiting and following my blog! I am also now following you :)
ReplyDeleteP.s. I LOVE your countdowns! I also can't wait for those movies to come out! Unfortunately its still quite a long wait!
Florentine @ Readiculously Peachy
Your blog looks great! I love your banner at the top- you have some of my favorite books there! Don't be embarrassed! I still can't figure out probably half the cool things I could do with my blog!
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Jessica@Lovin' Los Libros
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New follower :)
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I am a brand new blogger and loving it. I agree that sometimes I get frustrated trying to figure out how to use everything and make it work! I am now a follower :-)
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