Category: blog maintenance

Every year Writer's Digest compiles a list of the top 101 best websites for authors.  This is an authoritative list of all the best "writing communities, publishing resources, agent advice,...

I've never been one to mark the anniversary of this blog. I started it in January 2010 on the spur of the moment, and generally maintained that attitude of...

After several weeks of planning and careful testing, and consulting with the theme's developer, I have replaced this site's theme with a new one. What do you think? TBH...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay a postal worker from their rounds, but winds were certainly enough to knock me offline. Starting yesterday...

This took me a good three months longer than I had planned, but today I am ready to unveil the new home page for this site. The new layout...

While everyone was off on vacation last week, I was busy behind the scenes doing scut work on my websites. I rebuilt the Valiant Chicken site, added HTTPS, stripped...

I'm sorry about the mess today, folks. You may have noticed that the site was down several times Friday afternoon and evening. We were trying to track down an...

A happy thanksgiving from all of us at The Digital Reader to all our readers....

Recent events have convinced me that I need to formally announce a policy on answering questions from bloggers and journalists. Yes, I answer media queries either as an expert...

This blog had an unexpected hiatus today while we were trying to upgrade to HTTPS. I did not crash the site (this time, anyway) but I did successfully lock myself...