Impact Page Builder Looks Very Impressive

Must admit I'd ignored the email from Eric of Frugal Theme fame about his new product Impact Page Builder until Leo D mentioned in his newsletter how to do amazing content siloing using it. I thought it looked like it had the potential to do - well pretty much anything - because rather than a theme its a template builder - so every page on your site can look entirely different! Why would you want that? Well if you are building a website more than a blog you might want that  - or if you wanted to build landing pages, or squeeze pages, or an ecommerce buy now page, or a special offer page or a full optimized supersite which covered a number of different topics ... 

Its awesome I think. - I'll be a review when I have had a serious play.  But I think I just bought something which is a truely a game changer for WordPress 

Earthquake Insurance New Zealand

I am often glad I live in NZ not the US - and particcularly when something bad happens The damage bill for Christchurch's huge earthquake is going to run into the billions - but its unlikely to bankrupt the country - the equivalent quake in California would almost certainly bankrupt that state's economy. The main reason - a good, government backed earthquake insurance scheme in New Zealand

Vox is Dead - what about your Vox Blog

Vox is closing for business - but there are quite a few options  if you are looking for a Vox Alternative . The company who has just destroyed your blogs and any backlinks that you have built over the years is offering you a free Typepad account for your blog - but you won't keep the name of your site .

It may be time to look around and decide just what you want to do - starting with the question - why are you blogging on Vox in the first place 

Talking to some web designers today....

via theoatmeal.com

I don't claim to be a web designer but I have certainly had users want to design software for me when I was a business analyst - tell me what they needed to do their job - nope they couldn't do that - but they could def tell me how to do mine LOL I love not working for anyone but ME !

Barbecue biker hits snag - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nz

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For those of you who are not Kiwis - a famous ex-PM of our's one Robert Muldoon was famously quoted as saying "every NZer who leaves New Zealand for Australia raises the IQ of both countries" - case made I feel. Though you have to say the guy really was an idiot for turning down the advertising deal with the BBQ company - that would have more than paid for the fine!

Why working at home is both awesome and horrible - The Oatmeal

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Working from home does have its minuses as well as it pluses - honest

Fast Article Writing

Oh its been a while since I wrote a hub - but I thought it might be time to push a few more out  so here is the latest all about how to write articles fast And for the record it took about 20 minutes to write these nearly 700 words!