Mar 7, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

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    2. Hey,
      I liked the way your blog is, the images and the events category.

      If you can add the time taken or distance from one place to another or railway station to that particular place in the itineraries on your blog. Plus the fee or charges if applicable; If you’ll include these things it will be more handy for the travelers 🙂

      Thanks,
      Sara from Foodeez Junction

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      1. Thank you for this suggestion. I started this blog for offbeat places but then based on queries I was getting I tweaked a bit to include popular places. I’ll surely add on these aspects. th anks for suggestions. really appreciate it! 🙂

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  3. Hey everyone!
    My first time at the community pool, after taking a break from blogging for the birth of my son I just recently got back into it with a more polished vision behind what I want to blog about, but I’m still worried that it’s too general.
    I would love your opinion as to whether I should narrow my focus more or not!
    Thank you!
    https://mylifesdesigns.wordpress.com/

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    1. I really like the layout of your site – beautiful photos which really makes me want to stay and navigate. One thing I would suggest (not sure if it’s possible on your theme), is making the title headings a little bigger. Some of the subsequent sub headings actually are bigger than the blog post title. A small thing!

      Re whether what you write about is too general? I’ve been blogging for two years across a range of different themes. My advice for what it’s worth is to write about what you enjoy – sticking to a specific theme can kill your creativity. Who knows what direction your blog will go by limiting your options from the outset.

      Best of luck

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  4. Hello! My blog is cafe-style, casual atmosphere where opinions and comments are welcomed and we love to chat. I blog about topics that encourage inspire, and educate. Please pull up a seat and join the conversation.

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  7. Hi everyone!
    Although I already have a number of readers, I am fairly new to Word Press. Guess I am not using 10% of the functions. I would like to get some feedback on the look & feel of my travel blog – is it too raw? or perhaps there is too much content already? Should I customize it more or is it enough the way it is? I will be very grateful for any comments you might have:
    https://nareszcieurlop.wordpress.com/

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    1. Your site is quite stunning. To me, it looks like a magazine, white background with bright clear photos. I appreciate the fact that it has translation in English for reading. H

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    1. I read a great post I found on pinterest recently about the legality behind it. Technically, even if you give credit, if you didn’t have permission to use a photo you can still get demands to take it down or even get sued! Just because it’s on google doesn’t mean it’s available for use. Giving credit can help, but if there isn’t photographer details definitely don’t use it!
      The only exception I’ve heard of is items for sale (especially on Amazon or the like) if you link to where the reader can buy it 🙂 Otherwise, safest bet is to find free public photos, pay for the rights, or only use your own 🙂

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    2. I think the thing to do in a scenario when you don’t have the photographers details is to put a disclaimer saying something along the lines of ‘all efforts have been made to credit the photographers. Sometimes no such credit is available, but if they become known all photos will be updated.’ That type of thing. Hope that helps 🙂

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  9. Happy Monday and March everyone! I was a bit lax with my normal post schedule last week (I was on vacation) so I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. This post is composed of the daily writings I had from last week. Check it out here: https://sibillerose.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/dw-vacations/ I’m always looking for feedback and suggestions about my writing (or about anything else that could come to mind while viewing my site). And of course I’m always happy to take a look at others work as well. Thanks in advance!

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  10. So I know that we’re all delighted to know that our creations (posts) are being read, thus why don’t you go to mine, check what’s wrong there (and give feedback about anything, maybe even some topics I can write?), and I’ll come to yours and do the same thing! (And if you have any feedback about layout pleaaaase kindly tell me how to change it to be better, I’m kinda blind in this layout changing matters hehe)

    It’ll be fun! (I guess :p)

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    2. If you include a link to your blog it will be easier to find your creations 😉 Alright, so feedback! I don’t have much in regards to topics you can write, really you can write whatever you want with your set up! Sometimes that can be a downfall because too many choices can cause what’s called decision paralysis!
      As far as layout, maybe try making your blog name in your header white? Right now it disappears and I can’t read it at all, that or lighten up your header image 🙂 Also, that font in your header is just generally difficult to read, I’d suggest trying another one.
      If you get the chance, you should check out my blog series on my harry potter party! (I saw you were a fan 😉 ) https://mylifesdesigns.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/a-very-potter-halloween-party-part-1-invitations/

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      1. Hi!
        Aaaargh I meant to include it but I forgot, it’s https://yfns.wordpress.com (for those of you who haven’t visited yet), such a rookie mistake. Right, that’s the idea, there’s just a few posts right now but once it adds up, there’ll be far more topics than there is right now (I know it’ll be confusing for the readers but well that’s what I need this blog to be).
        Meant to do that from long ago! I just can’t seem to make it turn white, I might just change the whole theme all along. Huh so it’s generally hard to read huh? Will consider changing that too.
        a BIG fan, I literally grew up with the trouble trio. checking it out right now, the Hogwarts invitation style is especially good! I’d be thrilled to get one 😀

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  11. Good Evening friend’s, The 6 Million P Man here looking for new readers/viewers to cast their furtive glance’s over my blog. It’s about photography and has a running theme of film and digital, street and landscape although it does diversify into other genre’s and post types at times.

    Here’s a couple of example’s of recent post’s, let me know what you think as feedback is always welcome on both my visual’s and writing.

    This is a landscape post taken on film;

    Medium Format : Fourteen

    This is a landscape post taken on digital;

    Tide

    There’s plenty more if you want to have a look through my site as well.

    Thanks in advance you lovely people.

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  12. I want some feedback on my blog and it’s content, please. How can I expand my outreach and find other blogs about my topic?

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  13. Ever looked at a photograph and have a song that pops up in your head? Something that fits the mood, the atmosphere, the weather, or the lighting you see in the photo? That is what Soundtrack Of A Photograph does, finding musical connections between my photographs and the music I love. All comments and thoughts appreciated!

    Photo Shuffle-The County Fair

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    1. This reminds me of my misspent youth playing Championship Manager and Football Manager on the PC, stats, stats and more stat’s. I like it, but I am a stats nerd, but I can see how the amount of data you have presented could overwhelm the casual reader. In all, the information is presented well, there’s just a lot of it.

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      2. It does look like a lot, doesn’t it? In terms of word count it’s not much longer than my usual posts, but the graphs do take up a lot of space. I tried to create clear divisions between them with some white space between each one so it didn’t look too overwhelming. I’ll think about breaking it up a bit more in the future, maybe doing a Part I and Part II; team-based stats like table position and relegation in one part and league-based stats like goals and cards in the second part. Thanks for your feedback!

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    2. Hi Alex – blimey! You must have loved Maths at school. That’s a lot of beautiful organisation of numbers.

      A couple of things that would have made them clearer for me – something that differentiated the lines on the graphs. The colours were very close to each other – especially the blues and purples. Are they the actual colours of the teams? Do the teams have badges or symbols? Would broken lines or dots help? It seemed that Puebla (if I’m remembering right) changed from turquoise to purple in different graphs. I have a feeling other teams changed colours too. The one graph that had loads of lines criss crossing was quite difficult for me to grasp. Is there a way of breaking it down at all or does it only make sense if every team is in there? Maybe make more small graphs and then put them together in your giant graph?

      I know very little about Mexican Futbol, so I’m commenting as a novice. Your charts bring the subject to visual life, so thank you for that.

      Best wishes
      Elaine

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      1. Thank you for your feedback! The colors are generated automatically in the program I use and I’m sure there’s a way to change them but I haven’t figured it out yet! The crisscrossing one is a bit confusing, but the only way to clarify it would be to take out some of the teams. It gets clearer as the season goes on – the end of season one is easier to look at. I will try to figure out how to customize the colors by then! Thanks again for your comments/suggestions.

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    2. Hey Penny, I am enjoying your blog, being a fellow horse enthusiast. I love the content and tips of saving money on everyday things so the money can be used for horse fund. But I can’t seem to be able to follow your blog or like or comment? Not sure if this is your settings or something wrong my side of things. I’ve not been blogging long so I could be me, but I’ve had no issues on other blogs. Thanks

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      1. I’m not certain what’s going on but try to click the follow and I will look on my home site to see what might be the trouble. I’m so glad you’re enjoying the tips and certainly hope they help you in your equestrian journey!

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    1. Hi,
      Your site and style are really cute. I love what you did below the “Black on Black”…I would suggest maybe having different options creating different styles Day/Night for each one.

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    1. Here goes – not a massive fan of your theme. The purple backdrop doesn’t work for me – then as I scroll down it changes colour. Little bit inconsistent. An all white backdrop with standard format/font and black colour text fits my taste better.

      The images are very big – not sure how that reads on a mobile/tablet device but on my laptop it means even more scrolling. Perhaps make images 300×300 so text can wrap around it and you can fit more on the virtual page.

      Best of luck.

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    2. Hi. I’m looking at your site on mobile and the text flow and picture size is great. I’m finding the colour changing background a little overwhelming though, maybe aim for a more simplistic theme that let’s your content shine.
      Hope that’s helpful!
      Loony

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  23. Hello blogging world mates.
    Writing has been a wonderful path for me to express my thoughts into words. And my blog doesn’t just have my rants or views, but I try to include all that my mind conjures up. So I have my views, books that I review, poetry that I write and some short stories that are waiting for their readers. Today, I changed its look (theme) and would like to know your opinion about it.
    I’d like to share one of my poems here for you all.

    I’ll make myself!

    Thanks for reading and visiting too (if you do so!)
    Regards.
    Syeda

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  26. Hello everyone!
    I have recently started writing poems and would really love some feedback!

    Having just entered the blogging world, I have had some good responses from friends and family.However, I’d love for my fellow bloggers to take a quick peek and give me some honest feedback. Criticisms welcomed.

    Thanks in advance! Have a great day!

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  27. Hi, I wrote about many things. I’ve just written about first impression: https://masihbersambung.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/first-impression-someone-says-im-cheerful/
    Previously, I responded to the word “sentimental” from Daily Prompt: https://masihbersambung.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/i-love-you-for-sentimental-reasons/
    I also talked a little about the Welsh word “hiraeth” and Arya Stark’s Needle: https://masihbersambung.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/hiraeth-and-needle/

    Thank you

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  28. Hello, all you bloggers and blog followers out there! It’s going to be a week of all-new posts that I have planned to publish this week(I have already published four new posts), cultivating with the three-day celebration of Svengoolie’s birthday on March 12th! Do not ever miss out on all the fun at http://www.j2w7.WordPress.com!-JW 🎉

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      4. I hope you like them! I’m working on putting a stream of all of them while having a static page, haven’t yet been able to yet

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      5. WAIT I’m already following you! Oops! I was wondering why your blog and posts looks so familiar! Alright, well I’m clearly losing it, so please disregard everything I’ve said!

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  30. Hello guys!
    I’m a new blogger – never done this before but wanted to share my love for fashion with the world. I would love if you were able to check out my blog and give me some feedback on its design and writing style. There isn’t an awful lot of content there yet as I only started the blog less than a week ago, however I’m sure I could still learn a lot about future posts from your feedback.

    Thank you 🙂

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    1. Really like your theme – a good fit for your topic. I like to see an ‘About Me’ section. It’s one of the first things I read when I stumble upon a blog for the first time to see whether I would be interested in following the blog. Also, it’s a good way to find out who is behind the blog – strengthens that connection between creator and reader.

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