I’m no super blogger nor do i profess to know much about blogging. Heck, I don’t even know a single code of css, php or whatever you geeks call it. I just know how to insert a simple link, upload a few pictures ar maybe if i feel like it, embed a video or two.  God knows how many times I have messed up my blog  in the process of tinkering with the codes and then unable to put them back again! You guys have probably seen me change templates like changing clothes but hah, 5 out of 10 times, it’s because i messed the present one up so bad that i can’t seemed to make it work again. So sometimes I think, if given a chance to do it all over again, I mean, really start all over as a newbie, without any knowledge of blogging, what would I have done?

I want to be 18 again!

It’s damn tough for an old dog like me to learn new tricks. I can read all I want about how to code this and how to code that but come tommorrow, my feeble brain just won’t recall what I have read yesterday. So if I had the chance to start blogging again, I want to do it when I was 18. I would love to learn how to design the most beautiful blog. I would love to learn all the codes, the tags and the what nots that makes me able to design my own blog.

Having said that, let’s get a little bit abstract. What we are taliking about is getting a second chance to start a blog all over again. We can look at this both ways. We abandon whatever we have now and start on a clean slate, which means we can start with our accumalated knowledge of this blogging thingy. We would have known what works and what don’t. We can avoid making the same mistakes. I think if we are talking about starting over in this manner, the chance of success are much higher.

However, for the sake of argument, let’s say the good Lord made the world turn anti clockwise and you are eighteen again and blogging is still in it’s infancy, you would make the mistake all over again wouln’t you? But that is for agument sake only and to make this entry a little bit more fancy. hehehehe.

Ok. back to what Darren wants, ‘If I had to start my blog again’

If I had to start my blog again, I would get a Adsense Optimised Template or Theme so that I will get all the highest paying ads. Is there such a theme? I guess so, I get lots of e-mails introducing such themes.

If I had to start my blog again, I’ll get all those SEO softwares that I also receive through my e-mails.

If I had to start my blog again, I’ll do a humongous cut and paste blog. Then I won’t have to crack my head on what to write and still get acclaimation.

If I had to start my blog again, If I had to start my blog again, … but I have started new blogs so may times and have deleted them so many times that I have lost count. Recently I just started another one just to test the waters. See if these kind of blogs catches on because i’ve searched high and low for this kind of info when I started and all I got was blogs and sites catering for those who already knows about codes and stuffs. It’s funny you know. We search for stuff because we know nuts about it, and when we find one, the info there are written assuming that you already know the stuff but are there to look for more. Don’t anyone realise that there are dumbells like me out there who needs to be led by the nose to do certain things?

*this post is written as a submission to Darren Rowse’s Group Wrting Project - If I had to Start my Blog Again.