It will not have escaped the more perspicacious among you that (a) I have not blogged much for a while here and (b) this blog has changed its appearance a bit.
The two are not entirely unconnected. I started this blog thinking that I might perhaps use it to support a consultancy service (should there be any demand for such a thing) to assist any solicitors who wished to develop their online service.
With this in mind (and also the development of my own services) I started doing a lot more reading about using the internet and social media. As a result I discovered that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did, and I am still reading up and researching.
Partly as a result of all this, I decided that I needed to develop my professional Landlord Law Blog (which supports my online Landlord Law service), and change it over to being a self hosted WordPress blog. This has now been done and the new blog www.landlordlawblog.co.uk went live at the end of November.
The new blog uses the Headway theme (affiliate link) which allowed us much more freedom in its design. My Headway license provided for me to use the theme for two blogs, so I decided to use it for this blog also (it formerly being a Typepad blog). Not being a proper web designer like Gill Bishop (who set up and designed my Landlord Law Blog) I have not done as good a job as her. However, Headway has allowed me to produce a reasonable (albeit perhaps somewhat boring) blog design. I will be working on this and tweaking it over time as I learn more.
Which I need to do. Despite having spent much of my spare time this year reading up on the internet and social media, I feel as if I am just at the start of a very long journey.
So this blog is changing direction a bit, and I will now be using it to talk about my research about and work with the internet and social media. It looks to be an interesting journey. I hope you will come with me.
Very very useful advice indeed. As someone who is hoping to set up a blog or 2 in the new year, and is receiving different advice from so-called experts, it’s really invaluable to find out the real-life experiences of someone who has actually done it that — and better still has not from their own mistakes. Many thanks — despite the advice of my web designer, I was thinking of going down the WordPress on my own website route — your advice is therefore both timely and really invaluable — exactly the kind reason why people should read other peoples blogs. Many thanks.