About
Welcome to Blog Tides, the success and achievement oriented blog that isn't quite a blog in the popular sense, but is in reality a blog with something of a difference!
What is Blog Tides all about?
It's about striving for the best that can be strived for in life, whether that is in financial terms, personal growth and success or happiness and fulfilment. In its new format, it will provide the reader with articles on these very subjects.
The Author
Hi, I'm Terry Didcott, a long-time online marketer, writer, musician and keen researcher into things that interest me.
When it comes to making money online, I have had my fair share of ups and downs over the years, meaning I have a ton of first-hand experience of what works as well as what doesn't work in this business.
As I like to write a lot, I'm happy to share what I know and what I have learned right here in this website.
I have kept some of the older content of the site as it still has some relevance to working from home these days, but I'm also adding new articles that explore today's ways of working to keep things current and interesting.
Out of interest, if you're wondering how I can easily publish new pages without the help of a blogging platform like Wordpress, it's not really that difficult. I write my article in a word processor, then copy/paste into a static page template using Notepad++ and just add the necessary HTML tags.
I manually add the new entry to a XML sitemap and a link in a navigation file. Once finished, I upload the new and updated pages via FTP (Filezilla is my preferred tool) and it's published. It doesn't actually take me any longer than it used to do using Wordpress, to be honest!
Where is the Old Blog?
The old blog was set up as a Wordpress Multi-User host, allowing different users to create their own blogs on a variety of subjects.
Some of them were very good and provided a good level of quality and information.
Others were not so good and were produced using badly formatted content (mostly barely legible spun text taken from other published works). These were deleted as they served no useful function.
As time went by, the functionality of the blog host became unreliable and the platform was not secure enough to keep it going without investing a lot of time and energy, two resources that are valuable and limited. I decided to terminate the old blog and resurrect it in this new format.
Some of the good content from the old blogs has been saved and will be re-published in static format when time permits!