The long journey of this great news for my reviews site was like a battle. After the first email from payu2blog whom have expressed that this particular blog was the only qualified one among the rest of my submissions to them, I was then asked to delete the text links on it so as to be pre-approved. This was such a big task for me. I had to thoroughly look into my blog and tried my best to meet their requirements. It’s good though that I have finished the contract of pasting the sponsored text links on my blog.

This getting approved by payu2blog must be a good one. I am positively looking forward for assignments that will be assigned to me. I’m so excited for the opportunities that will come my way from them!

Here’s the brand new dashboard that I have achieved getting into! May it be filled with assignments and opportunities in no time! Ajah to me and congratulations to Rona’s Reviews!

Let’s talk more about the premade design that I have purchased for only $15 from http://www.suckmylolly.com. You would think why I bought instead of making it on my own. Well, I’d love to, but not now as there are lots of things that need my attention. So this is the best for now. I actually had a bit of a hard time on looking for the best theme that will fit my niche for this new blog. I wanted it to be personal but simple. And so, I thought that this one would be the most appropriate for it. Plus, it caught my eyes for having that soft and dainty design.

Do you find this design nice and lovely? Because for me, I do!

Here I am. Finally writing something to add up in this long-forgotten blog. Thought that I need to update now so as to keep this blog going. I missed this site already.

Talking about designs and blog makeover. I have been browsing free and cheap premade designs that would look great on my reviews site. Well, it took like two nights until my heart saw something excellent. Aside from they aren’t my style, premade themes were expensive too. I didn’t think that they are that pricey! Just then that I realized why, it’s because designers have been making templates in Genesis Framework which is not free. So themes using this framework is included in your payment along with the chosen theme you are purchasing. It is because you have to have this right in your wordpress dashboard in order for your theme to work on your blog. I was thinking, that I really have been away too long already since the last time I designed blogs. Be needing to familiarize myself with everything again once I’ve got time for it. I actually tried tinkering on my other site last night and my brain had to adjust pushing it to remember my routines in designing.

In the long run, I ended up browsing templates again online and glad that I finally have loved something! Here’s a free theme from http://www.bluchic.com which is now installed on my site! I just fell in love with its simplicity and overall look. So professional but chic!

Have a great weekend everybody!

How are you all?

I’m sure that you have noticed that I have been on hiatus from designing for decades now. Yes, I’m exaggerating it for saying ‘decades’. Studies have become so demanding lately, especially now that I’m preparing for the upcoming Midterm exams which start on Monday.

Well, life has indeed totally changed for me and my Hubby after moving here in Cabanatuan last June. From settling into our new home, to enrollment processes and school days that loaded our shoulders. Little did we realize, days have gone by that soon! Add to that our duties in church that we have to travel every Friday afternoon to Manila and travel back every Sunday night. So much things to do and so less time to accomplish them that even blogging for me has become the least priority. I actually have slept from writing for the first several weeks of June until I felt that I was again physically settled to the new lifestyle and the new environment.

As expected, designing was set aside until now that I’m writing this post. You may have noticed too that this designs site template clearly needs a new dress. Honestly, this look stayed bare ever since I changed my host and moved to WordPress. It even bored me for updating tutorials too. The thing is, I get inspiration first from a fabulous look and design to drive myself to be motivated again before I go back on track.

Sorry guys. But I’ve decided.

I will be putting a stop to this career for now until we move back to Manila by May of 2013. There’s not much luxury of time for me to attend to your orders right now. Because normally, I give full attention to designing for at least 8 or more hours straight. So I’d like to apologize to those clients who have been waiting for the pending makeover of their blogs. Please accept my sincere apology. I may be back to designing on semestral break this October. But that is still impossible as I have travel schedules on those days.

I personally misses designing. I really do! But time doesn’t permit me to do so for now. Priorities first as everybody says.

Just please always be supportive, my loving customers and supporters. Don’t you worry. Who knows? I might be back making gorgeous blog templates in no time!

God bless and enjoy the week ahead.

Sincerely Yours,

Rona of http://www.ronafundesigns.com

Today, I am going to help you how to activate that ‘Read More’ function on your every post with thumbnail on the side. This is highly demanded by some bloggers who want to make their homepage look more organized and properly archived. By doing this, every post will contain a ‘read more’ function that is expanded once clicked on and being led to reading the whole post.

How to do this?

But first, and very important!

Always make a back up of your template before doing this tutorial in case anything goes wrong.

To do that?
Go to Dashboard – Template – Restore/Back-up Template.
Click Download.

Now you’re good to go with the next tutorial.

How to Activate Auto Read More Function with Thumbnail:

1. Go to your Dashboard. Click Template and tick Edit Template.
2. Click on the word Proceed.
3. Check the box that says Expand Template.
4. On your keyboard, click CTRL+F and a window on the upper right side of your screen will appear.
5. In that window, type and look for this code:

 6. Replace that with the following code:

read more ““

7. Now look for this code:

8. And paste the following code just right BEFORE the code above.

Click Preview to see if the code works perfectly then Save!

Enjoy your new homepage look! And until our next tutorial. Ciao!

Well, about me, I am just so grateful for the wonder of internet. If last week, I was very desperate for blog opportunities because it seemed like my blogs are hungry for them for a long time now as well as my Paypal account for the income. LOL! I even shouted it out on Facebook and lovely friends suggested some links. Mind you. I signed up on all their recommendations and guess what? None from them gave me an opportunity just yet. So, with all effort, I researched via google on blog hiring sites for opportunities. Voila! There was one!

One of my applications thru email was noticed and there I found a reply from one of the blog hiring sites! Actually, it was not a company or website, it was only an email address. They are hiring interested bloggers for regular tasks for as long as your blog ranks 1 on Google. From that reply, they immediately gave me a task by writing anything I want that ranges from 50 to 100 words provided that I input a link in my post. So far, I already submitted 2 blog posts consecutively within 5 days and was paid shortly as soon as I finish an assignment. The pay may not be that much ($5), but how is it gonna be when the opportunity is regular for writing any topic you love, right?

If you are interested on giving this a shot yourself, just send Mr. Matt a message to this email address: matt@mediarunsearch.co.uk

Do not forget to introduce your blogs and willingness to work with them.

That’s all for now, as I am preparing myself to design another blog. This means another moolah! Ciao!