The great thing about having wordpress is all the free templates you can find online. TBW uses one so I can show readers how great and versatile they can be. However its hard for me to find them based on the requirements I have for 3-4 columns. No one really makes 4 columns that work well and aren’t made for personal sites however but using free templates are great.

1. They make it easier for you as the blogger to update, upload, chmod, tweak and you’re set.
2. You can skin your site with multiple free layouts
3. If you get a free layout, you have a starting point
Amy from www.asastar.com started out with a free template and then redid it to suit her sites needs and and got rid of the sultry image of a model in her underwear and replaced it with a cute graphic of hearts.

There are so many free layout places its hard to list all of them, I compiled a short good for now list and am looking for resources that do not display the same layouts over and over again. It’s hard to find those though, a lot have broken links and I am shifting through as to not give you “filler” content and list tons of things and never check back for dead links. If you ever see anything dead let me know. It’s down immediately and monitored for life signs :P

I was just approved the other day on a new program called LoudLaunch.com for my other personal site. They have this website on pending approval still. I wonder why? Maybe its because i can RIP THEM TO SHREDS!

I accepted one of their ads. All their running ads so far are you either do it for free or its $5.00 The income potential is limited. So far on loudlaunch, as well as who is purchasing the ads on here. I also have major problems logging in. I continue to login after 5 attempts I try a different login area and it does. They are both the same just one seems to hate my guts.
I accepted an adcampaign and wrote about some Russian Artists, it was a minimum 200 words. I wrote about 3 paragraphs and Followed it to a T. Their linking thing keeps deleting the direct link I send them and puts it back to my personal sites default address when they want the link to the direct post. Which is a negative on my behalf.
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A lot of websites are picking this up! I’ve done a few articles on this so far and I still insist on it. Shorter post can make you more popular. They are picked up by indexes a lot faster, and allow a short attention span reader to enjoy your site

Shorter posts are actually really helpful for your site. Shorter posts mean more people can read your site faster, it can be easily referenced for tag backs. A lot of websites have been picking this up, including the BlogHerald. Shorter posts = Highly Targeted Content! You get a lot more posts out of it which is plus points for your blog for a lot of companies for you to sign up. The more posts the bigger your blog looks for adsense, payperpost and a variety of other places that rate how long you’ve been blogging and how many posts you have etc.

WORDPRESS USERS PLEASE READ!

Wordpress users who’ve just upgraded to 2.1.1 there is a security update to upgrade the version from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2. It has just been released! It is a dangerous and much needed upgrade! A hacker seems to have access the download upgrade off of the Wordpress site and altered the code
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