May 18, 2014 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The Community Pool is for those of you looking for feedback, whether on post ideas, writing, blog design and layout, or anything else.

If you have a post, page, or idea you want to bounce off someone, leave a comment. Your fellow bloggers can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

Read on for the ground rules and to leave a comment . .

TIP: To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.

  • You’ll get the best feedback if you can be as specific as possible about what you’d like people to respond to or where you’re struggling. If you simply leave a link to your blog, it’s likely to be overlooked.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. We’re here to help and support one another, not to beat anyone down.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

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  1. This is awesome and what I have been looking for. I have had my blog for awhile but just finally kicked my butt and started posting. How do I turn it into starting a path to get into the industry I want to work in?

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  3. Oh dear someone, I just started my blog. It’s some kind of diary. I’m a sixteen year old girl and I’m depressed. I write about what I experience in the clinical and in my life. So if anyone could check me out, maby? and please leave a comment on my blog weither you like it or not. love

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    1. First of all I absolutely love the layout and design of your blog 🙂 The warm soft colours and images feel comforting to me. I think your writing can help not only yourself but also your readers to feel a bit better. All the best, and enjoy blogging!

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    2. I love the layout and design, it’s very warm and inviting – feels intimate like a diary too. Keep it up, already shaping up to be a nice blog!

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    3. your blog is a source of inspiration for me… Just keep doing it and help yourself and others like you…
      You have one more follower …
      Klajunas

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  4. Hey all you wonderful bloggers! I recently moved from blogger to WordPress and I’m having a bit of difficulty navigating through it.

    My blog is in relation to my assignment about challenging perspectives and then I plan on continuing it after. Any advice or improvement tips?

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  5. I am thinking about creating a regular feature on my blog, and have quite a few ideas. However, I am unsure what people would most like to read. I have created a poll so that people could vote for which idea they would most enjoy. I would love for more opinions, so if anyone felt like having a read and voting for their favourite, that would be a great help. Any other suggestions are also welcome. Thanks.

    You can find me at http://kayleygilbert.wordpress.com/

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      1. Thank you, that really means a lot. I’ve worked hard on it. Thanks so much for your suggestion, I really love the idea! I have tried not to write solely about war, because many think that war is all that is studied in History. But I will try to incorporate a wider view of history, looking into different subjects such as Chemistry, like you suggest. Thanks again!

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    1. That’s one of the problems with the sidebars, how much is too much? For some of mine, I have limited where they appear (my Good Reads widgets for example only appear in book reviews and on my Book Review index page)

      Your sidebar looks fine and the theme feels appropriate for your blog.

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  11. hi, newbie here (even raising my hand). if you’re interested about reading poetry, short stories, and how i look at life in a maladjusted sight, please pay me a visit. feedback is appreciated, interpreatation is yours to keep. http://audrinemax.wordpress.com/ thank you.

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  12. Hi everyone! I am trying to start a teacher/ life ramblings sort of blog and I’ve never done anything like this before. I don’t want any specific feedback but would love to know if people think I’m on the right track, what my writing style is like and any general ideas for posts. Feel free to offer feedback and any comments on posts or on here.
    Thanks so much in advance.
    Sare – http://newteacherlife.wordpress.com

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  13. I would really appreciate feed back on this “about page.”

    explaining This

    Specifically: does the name of the page indicate that it *is* an about page? Also, does the music link work? Is there anything confusing? Did it seem stilted?
    Any and all feedback happily accepted. 🙂

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  14. Hey everyone ! I have topics based of my everyday life and experiences and I need some feedback or some more topics ideas that I should cover and talk about or what topics people would like to hear about I just started up recently so looking for some feedback …. Posted my link on my social media sites but no on likes or comments when I post my link so im not sure if people are liking my stuff so im definetley in need of some more viewers and topic ideas 🙂 hope you guys can help me ! Thanks !

    http://Www.ctkrs.wordpress.com && u can msg me all your ideas and responses to my ask.fm as well ask.fm/ctkrs !

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    1. Good concept and well done for the most part. However, the background image doesn’t work. It would look silly if it were tiled and right now it only occupies one corner. I’d replace it with a solid color.

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  17. Hello everyone, can you guys please tell me if my photography is any good? I’m still a beginner with no qualifications in that field but if I have any talent, I would love to pursue it because I enjoy it so very much. Please check out my last 2 posts and my Sierra Leone page. Thanks! This is the link.

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  18. Hey Ya’ll, I would like to converse with other senior citizens with different topics–not interested in dating, etc., just want to communicate with someone in my age group and share stories, experiences and things of beauty and interest. Thank you, Georgia Sunshine

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  21. Hi everyone, I am trying to improve my writing and just posted a new one, I like my writing to be beautiful but constructive, also this particular one is about what to do with this person and wouldn’t mind your opinion on that either 🙂 please comment on my blog. Here is fine as well 🙂 http://wp.me/4jkcI

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  22. I would like to make my header picture smaller and have been unsuccessful. Any direction or advice would be appreciated. Thanks so much!
    foodradical.wordpress.com

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    1. Try loading the image into Power Point and reduce it to the size you want. If you’re reducing its height, keep the white space at the top and put your blog title and tagline up there in nice big letters. (You’ll eventually need to turn off the automatic display of your title and tagline if you end up using this.) Then, save the 1-page presentation as a JPG file. (Also save it as a ppt so you can edit it if necessary.)

      In addition to reducing the picture size, this will also give you a more interesting font for your title and tagline.

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  23. Hi, everyone! I usually do poems but I’m constantly trying and experimenting with my blog and trying different things.
    So, I would love a feedback, suggestion or anything you may want to talk about my blog!
    Just jump to
    http://abhinavreinvented.wordpress.com/ STRAGGLER the incessant babbler!

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  24. Hi y’all! I’d love to get some feedback about my blog in general – tips on how to improve my writing, and what you liked 🙂
    Thanks
    itsrandomania.wordpress.com it is!

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    1. Oh, and I’d prefer if you’d leave a message on my blog itself – makes it easier to locate. That’s all, thanks again!

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  25. My blog is called EasyBeingMom but I have found myself writing on some different topics lately. I try and include a “mom” element in whatever I am writing about but was hoping that some of you could check out my blog and let me know if there is a feeling of cohesiveness in it or if it feels terribly disjointed. Thanks a bunch!
    http://www.easybeingmom.wordpress.com

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    1. I found your blog cohesive and readable. I enjoyed your mother’s day post. We love bubbles at my house too! Good luck with the move (and the motivation)!

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      1. Thank you very much! As the move gets nearer I was hoping the motivation would just sort of appear but so far it has not! I’m still hoping that somehow the packing fairies will know where to find me.

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  26. So hey here I am again. I was wondering if anyone has some tipsm for my blog and also maby ways to get known by other bloggers. bc of course I write it for myself, but i also hope to inspire people and that’s kinda hard when no one knows your blog, so yeah you could reply on here or just comment at my blog, already thanks x

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    1. I love your blog title. I also like your pictures, but I’m not sure your theme lends itself to understanding what your blog is about. The about page does say though, so I don’t know if that’s a problem or not. 🙂

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  28. Mara, You’re getting positive feedback and I like your funny writings combined with photo experiment. In my opinion you’ll enhance the humor if you eliminate unnecessary words. We all have a love hate relationship with our GPS . . . just saying, Claudia

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  29. HI, I am quite new here and trying to do a friendship blog and hope to make it as interactive as possible. To try to boost traffic, I also take part in challenges and hoping to be ‘discovered’ but sometimes quite discouraged. Perhaps I didn’t try harder or I may have not taken the right steps to get more to read my blogs hence I sort of stop writing on the main topic of the blog.

    Here’s my latest blog

    Sunday Stills, One Subject, just One

    and this one a page in invite links and get people ‘talking’

    Worldwide Friendship

    Would love your visit and feedback. Thank you from a friendsoulmate

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