Burgs
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I'd also recommend the web host asmallorange.com - I pay $25 per year for 150 mb of space and 4.5 gb worth of bandwidth. Small, but adequate for my blog - and way cheap. The customer service is good too.
Mine is a pay site so that I don't have ads that I don't want on there. The cost was pretty low though. Something like $5 a month I think. The main architecture of it is a free Wordpress theme:
http://www.yourinspirationweb.com/tf/?theme=impero
I've done some customization to it, but all with free stuff. Google fonts and the like. Most of the pictures are mine to begin with also. It's really easy to work with, and has a pretty sweet look and feel IMHO. I can also post to it from my tablet or phone, which is a huge plus in my book.
Mine is www.bear-flavored.com (the name of my "brewery"). I review beers too, so there's more of that than homebrewing stuff so far. Hoping to expand with some more "editorial" type stories about the beer industry / breweries / bars eventually... or whatever else I come up with.
I really enjoy your blog. Read the first two posts. Following!
Love the collection of blogs (mine is in my signature). Looks like I'll be updating my bookmarks list thanks to this thread!
Agreed, very nice. Same goes for the others on here.
If anyone is interested in guest posting, we have them pretty often on The Homebrew Academy. We post on other blogs as well. It's a good way to share audiences.
Thanks! Good to hear. Guest posting sounds cool, I'm checking out that site now.
A few pages back there was discussion of paying for hosting and whatnot. In case anyone is curious, my blog is hosted on Blogger, so it's totally free (except for the 10 bucks I spent buying the domain name.) Blogger has really improved over the years and there are a lot of tricks you can do so that it doesn't even look like a blogger site no stupid "bar" at the top or anything. I like it a lot more than the free version of Wordpress for something like this.
I just spent some time and added folks from this as link backs on my blog. Great way to follow what others are doing! Also helps get traffic up for everyone if we all do it.
Join the club Husky. There are a few of us that are pretty new to this blogging thing. Look forward to seeing what you come up with,
Content is everything. You can have the coolest, most savvy setup ever, but if you don't have content in there, what's the point? I make a point of trying to post something new every 4 days at the most. Sometimes I get a couple of things up faster than that, sometimes it takes a little more time to get an addition. But if you aren't adding content, then it will grow stale and never have a chance to live up to its potential.
Agreed, but for me it's a push/pull between wanting fresh content and not really wanting to post about every time an airlock bubbles. I'm ok with posting once a month, so long as each one is worth reading. Right now I have at least 4 beers going that I've never mentioned on my blog, and I'm sure that's how it'll always be. What truly impresses me is stuff like The Mad Fermentationist, where there's something of substance like... weekly.
Agreed. For me, the way that I try and keep fresh content up, even if I'm not brewing every week, is to also add some other things that might be of interest. So I'll post reviews of local brewpubs, beers, vendors, equipment, things like that. It gives me the chance to branch out a little more, and keep fresh content rolling in.
You know what was funny, is that I almost got into an argument with someone on Facebook the other day who was being a huge beer snob - and she is a server at that Piece place that you reviewed. Ha!
And if you have a minute drop by my blog and vote for my next brew. Gracias
HA! That's hilarious. My girlfriend was mad when she read what I wrote, but I told her that I had to be honest. It was mediocre for beer, with good pizza. I have no problem ordering a pizza from them to carry out and take home so I can drink some decent beer with it, but what they were serving just didn't impress me at all.
Voted for the stout. One of my favorite beer styles
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