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