Author Archives: Lisa B.

Planning Your Posts

I have committed a big no-no on this site. I haven’t posted in over 3 weeks. I’m sure that comes across as flaky and I’m also sure I’ve lost some readers.
Summer is always a busy time. School started for my daughter 2 weeks ago. There are plenty of excuses, but there are also things I [...]

Family Historians and Being Preachy

Cathy @ Mommy Motivation sent me a few questions in email awhile back. I answered 2 of her questions with “A Wonder-filled Post” and “My God is Bigger Than Google.” Check those out if you haven’t read them yet. I was going through my email trying to clean out my inbox, and I found that [...]

How Do I FTP?

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. You need an FTP client (software) running on your computer to connect to your web server. I prefer FileZilla.

What do I do with a .zip file?

If you are running Windows XP (or a later version of Windows operating system), you can easily unzip the file. A .zip file contains several other files compressed into a single file for easier distribution.

How Do I Download A File?

Most of the time you will see a link to click on. Clicking on this link should bring up a dialog box asking where you would like to save the file. Be sure you remember where you are saving the file on your computer. I typically have a folder named Downloads in My Documents. Once [...]

Focusing On My Bloggy Purpose

A few months ago, I wrote about Finding Your Bloggy Purpose. Understanding that before you start, helps you to make certain decisions about what you put on your blog and what you leave off.
I’m looking at this from a slightly bigger perspective. I am a domain name junkie. I have several domain names, some of [...]

Brain Dumps

I am still in recovery mode from She Speaks this past weekend. For a recap, check over at my personal blog simply His. I got tons of information from She Speaks and even more ideas of what to share here. It’s just taking me some time to process everything.
One of the bloggers I met, Robin [...]

Attn: She Speaks/Charlotte Bloggers and Blog Readers

Lunch Friday — Check out simply His for details

Straight from the Heart: Melanie @ Big Mama

In preparation for She Speaks at the end of this week, here’s another Straight from the Heart interview with Melanie from Big Mama. She’ll be presenting with Sophie and Shannon in some bloggy sessions I’m so looking forward to. Honestly she deserves a better introduction than this, but Doodle has consistently been talking for the [...]

My God is Bigger than Google

Yesterday I answered part of Cathy’s questions. Here are today’s answers
Cathy @ Mommy Motivation asked (snippet from yesterday):
Or there isn’t an audience for what I am writing about? *I wonder if the audience that I KNOW is there, is already getting all the information they need from larger sources? Like those huge mom [...]