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How to Design Your Blog Yourself

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It turns out that you can design your blog yourself without needing to have any expertise in blog design whatsoever. After paying to design this blog, I was faced with the challenge of having two other blogs with no way to formally pay to design them also; so I decided to do the job myself.  Let me just say I had no formal training or expertise in this area. However, I was able to transform these two blogs into a space that was uniquely what I wanted to present to my readers.  Here are some tools that I use to help me: Free Templates It was important to me to have my blog design looking visually appealing. I found that there are blog designers that actually gave away free templates that were first rate quality. You can find great free templates on these sites: Blogger Candy Wordpress Templates Blogger Themes Free Templates I have used Blogger Candy and I have found they offer a number of templates that are well designed and easy to change to suit my preferences. 

Tips on How to Warm up Before Walking

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Before you start walking, it is important to warm up first. Increasing the temperature in your muscles and joints and increasing blood flow will make you more comfortable when you exercise and reduce the risk of injury. Mark Fenton has developed a few easy warm-up moves that target the muscles you use most during walking. You can do them all in a standing position and the entire routine should take only three minutes. Ankle circles.  Standing on one foot, lift the other leg off the ground in front of you. Slowly flex that ankle through its full range of motion, making circles with the toes. Do 6 to 8 circles then reverse the direction of your circle and do 6 to 8 more. Switch feet and repeat. Leg swings. Standing on one leg, swing the other leg loosely from the hip in a front to back motion. Keep it relaxed and unforced like the swinging of a pendulum. Your foot should swing no higher than a foot or so off the ground. Do 15 to 20 swings on each leg. Figure-8 leg swi

How to Review a Poorly Written Book

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source You are excited because you have just received your first book to review. You quickly start reading the book with bated breath because you can barely contain your excited. Ten pages into the book you find that you are struggling to move on to the next page. With each page you become more disappointed with the writer's craft. You shake your head at the poorly written plot and the conflict that you are waiting to see develop but seems nonexistent.  Finally, at page 100 you give up. You just cannot keep going. You have 100 pages left and it is too painful to continue reading. Then, you remember that you have a write a review on the book.  What then?  How do you review a book that is poorly written?  That is a dilemma that a number of bloggers face. Today I want to address that issue. Here are some tips on how to review a poorly written book:   Your Audience  Always remember that your loyalty is to your audience; it is not any company, autho

Tips for Managing Multiple Blogs

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Here are some tips on how I manage my multiple blogs: Use One Blogging Platform I find it more manageable to have all my blogs on one blogging platform (Blogger). My blogger dashboard has where I can see all my blogs at a glance and I find this very handy and useful. So I suggest have all you blogs on one blogging platform that way you can see all your blogs and you can better track your blogs that way. I find that blogger helps me to do that. Never Post Substandard Content:  When you have multiple blogs you might feel like you have to post to keep your readers coming back; however, if you post content that is below your standards you will find that your loyal readers will lose interest and stop reading your blog. It is better not to post than to post content that is not in line with your blog just   because you feel like you have to post something.  Set scheduled posts  I am bad at this. But I have found that it is great when you stagger your posts if you have multi

5 Face Scrubs Recipes

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Summer is almost over, however that does not mean you cannot keep summer with you through out the year. Here are a few simple D.I.Y. scrub recipe you can create at home to beautify yourself:  Recipe 1- Tropical Face Scrub Olive Oil Brown Sugar Honey Lemons You can use your desired measurement. You cannot go wrong. Combine all of these ingredients until the mixture forms a paste-like substance Recipe 2- Quick and Easy Cornmeal Condense Milk Combine all of these ingredients until the mixture forms a paste-like substance. Then apply to the skin. It might get hard and tighten the skin. Following this, watch with warm water for a smooth youthful look.  Recipe 3- Summer Fun 1 cup coconut oil 2 cups sugar 10-15 drops essential oil (optional) Combine the coconut oil and one cup of the sugar in a bowl and mix until creamy. Then, add the essential oil while continuing to stir. After, add the remaining sugar until the formula reaches the desired consistency. Fina

How to Write a Blog Post

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So I have been blogging now for about four years on and off. It is something I enjoy doing and it is purely my hobby. However, over my four year journey I have learned a few tips and tricks that have helped me when writing my blog post.   Getting Started Sometimes it is hard to get started on writing your blog post especially if what you want to say is not actually what you are typing on the page. You find that you type and delete continuously; before you know it, you are at square one. So what to do? Brainstorm Ideas   It is good to have an idea of what you want to write before you begin writing. Basically, brainstorming is writing down your ideas and organizing them before you start writing.   I find that brainstorming saves you a lot of time and energy. It also prevents you from having writers block in the middle of writing your post.   Brainstorming helps you to focus your topic, eliminate ideas that are not in line with what you want to write about a