Know Your Own Value
There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you. Mel Robbins, #5secondrule
God Hears Prayer
The only prayer that God hears from the unsaved is "the sinner's prayer" (asking Him into your heart), yet He hears intercessory prayers on behalf of the sinner every day.
Taming The Tongue
From a Sunday school lesson on gossip: The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail more than his tongue.
God Often Provides Miracles
God often provides miracles in spite of our own desires. Yes, He is still protecting us even when we make bad decisions.
CreateSpace – Designing Your Own Cover
In a previous post about publishing through CreateSpace, I mentioned how easy it is to design a cover using their Cover Creator tool. The only problem that I have found is when you have a full-sized cover already designed, perhaps for an Ebook, and that has the book name and author name already blended in. You can hide many elements using their tool, but I could not find a template that would let me hide the title. The next option was their cover template which gives you a pre-formatted template based on the number of pages in your document. The problem with using that is, because I am not a graphic designer, I do not have the proper tools to edit a PDF. That took this tool out of the…
Ebook Authors, Can You Publish Using CreateSpace?
Many of us avoid the Publish On Demand option because of two main reasons – cost and effort involved. I can now speak to both of those, from my own experience. First, I had believed that there were setup costs and others to distribute your book through CreateSpace. It turns out that I was wrong about that. I reformatted an Ebook using their Word template and submitted it to their “Interior Reviewer.” The review process produced a single issue – the graphics that I had formatted for Ebook distribution were lower than the quality required. So far, no cost other than my time. My next worry was the cover design. They require a front and rear cover connected to the spine. I am adventurous enough to investigate the size needed…
WordPress Development – what a fun venture
Thanks to a couple of new customers, I have begun to develop in the WordPress environment. I must admit, I am quite impressed! I had looked at WordPress, Drupal and Joomla in a previous search for the ultimate CMS for my employer and none of them seemed to fill the needs properly. In one case (small winery), the WordPress environment definitely works well. Thanks to Jetpack, it ties well to your favorite social networks and generates SEO-friendly web pages. Anyone who would like a recommendation for a Content Management System that is easy to set up, responsive and quite user friendly, that is definitely WordPress. While you are contemplating that recommendation, consider GoDaddy as the place to host it. I set this customer up with a year of hosting for…