If you have tried to visit this site or any of the other sites I run over the last few days, you may have come across a notice from my host that my site was suspended. I received an email from Bluehost with the following information: Dear Dana: Your web hosting account for huffenglish.com has…
Those of you who receive post updates in your inbox will want to take note of some changes. Up until now, I have used Feedblitz to manage email subscriptions. However, in order to streamline services and make things a little easier for me, I am discontinuing support for old Feedblitz subscriptions as of one week…
I hate it when I become dependent on a piece of technology and its creator decides to stop updating it. I feel kind of lost and directionless. I have been frustrated trying to find methods of keeping up with replies to comments I leave on blogs without subscribing to a bunch of comment RSS feeds…
If you’re looking to try out some tools to make teaching, sharing, discussing ideas, and planning easier, you might want to check out some of these tools. Twitter I you want to ask a quick question or have a conversation, there’s nothing as efficient as Twitter. It’s also a quick way to get the word…
If you have a blog and have already chosen a platform (if need help with this, click here or here), this post might just make some aspects of your blog richer for you and your readers. Apture Apture works with any publishing platform, and it’s easy to install. It allows you to make your site…
When I remembered today that WordPress 2.7 enabled threaded comments, I decided to try to implement them here on this blog. While enabled threaded comments within the content management system involved only checking a box, I realized my theme didn’t support threaded comments. I tried to follow instructions for modifying my theme that I found…
In wonderful news for education bloggers, Edublogs is now offering domains to its users. If you already own a domain (or even a subdomain — for example, my classroom blog, Mrs. Huff’s English Classes is on a subdomain of huffenglish.com), you can map it to Edublogs for just $15 a year. If you don’t own…
Thanks to the wonderful Ms. Place of one of my favorite blogs, Jane Austen’s World, I discovered that a plugin (WP Super Cache) I installed was wreaking havoc on my site. The problem is that I ignored one of Donncha’s directives — that fancy permalinks are a requirement for the plugin — so it’s my…
Update: You can now subscribe to receive posts via e-mail, but if you were previously subscribed, you will have to resubscribe using this new service. Enter your email to subscribe: Powered by FeedBlitz I am sorry, but I am going to have to discontinue the option of subscribing to new posts via e-mail. Unfortunately, this…
I received an e-mail from Ashley, but my e-mails in response are bouncing back to me, so I decided to answer her question here. I use WordPress to power almost all of this site. This main page, huffenglish.com, is my blog. I use wikis for a few pages on which I discuss general teaching ideas,…
