happy steps

I’m here in Prague again! But before hitting the streets tomorrow… I’d like to thank my Top Entrecard droppers for the month of July:

Thailand Land of Smiles (26)
Toltec Insights with Dr. Susan Gregg (25)
My Trips (24)
rainydazeee (23)
Travel Guides ( 23)
Angels on Your Shoulder (22)
Pastel Corner (19)
Travel Asia (17)
Hollywood Star (17)

Thanks to my July advertisers as well… is there a way to track previous advertisers on Entrecard?

One more thing… special thanks to Beadalicious for the Arte Y Pico award… sorry I decided not to post my own list of blogs for this award since it would take lots of time for me to browse through all these inspiring blogs I’ve enjoyed reading via Entrecard.

Have a great Sunday ahead!  :)

I’ve been browsing through a lot of travel blogs lately and I noticed that some of them are not yet hosted on their own domains. For those who would like to take their travel blogs to the next level, the usual move is to be hosted on your own dot com (in my case it’s a dot net :) ). I remember when my siblings and I were still deciding on which web hosting company to host our blogs. We browsed over a lot of hosting packages, reviews and checked out some lists of web hosting rating before deciding which is which.
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Few more months to go before this blog turns a year older so I am on the lookout for some new WordPress themes. I prefer the three-column layout to maximize on a browser’s space and so that my readers wouldn’t have to scroll down many times over during their visit. I am also planning to change my header image and put in some of my travel photos but that would take time for now. Anyway, I still have few months for that, yeah? I hope I would come up with a totally different look and style for this blog’s first year anniversary. :)
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It’s been nine months already for happysteps.net and I am happy that this blog has been a venue for my ideas and musings about travel. Though I am not always going on a vacation or tour to some of the world’s famous travel destinations, I consider my trips away from home as something worth sharing in this blog.

Anyway, I am thankful for the nine months that has been and am looking forward to this blog’s first anniversary and the rest of the years to come. As I was musing about this, the idea of changing my blog’s template came up again. Actually it has been on my mind for a long time now. I really wish I could have more time to give my blog a new look or even do some tweaking on the sidebar and add some widgets.
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Ever since I’ve started this blog on my own domain, I’ve spent considerable amount of time browsing over the net for a Wordpress theme that would fit the concept of my blog. So far, this template is great, though it would be tempting sometimes when I go through some websites offering free WordPress themes and there I go, thinking if I would have a new template again or not.
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Happysteps.net is almost 7 months now. I can just remember when I first thought of having a travel blog and thinking of a domain name that suggests fun and adventure. Thanks to Techxplore for helping out in the techie stuff such as domain registration, installing WordPress and changing the blog theme.

Being a newbie in the blogosphere is a challenge, and when it comes to having your own domain, it’s best to consult the experts and do some research such as reading some web hosting faq where you gain more ideas and learn more about web hosting basics on topics such as domain registration, bandwidth, disk space, site maintenance, and more. It also helps to hop on to other blogs and hearing from what others had to say. Truly, knowledge becomes more useful when shared with others.