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Tag Archives: guide

Starting a new PolyWogg Guide…about astronomy

The PolyBlog
August 31 2019

Over the last few years, I have been surfing and reading a LOT on astronomy, making notes here and there, etc. On a not infrequent basis, I find that the info I’m looking for is spread across multiple sites and books.

Take exit pupils for instance. I read the RASC Observer’s Guide section on exit pupils more than once, and didn’t get it. I also read several other websites and books, and didn’t get it. Then I read Michael Swanson’s Celestron NexStar User’s Guide II, and it clicked. All the little pieces suddenly meshed. And I immediately wanted to share that info with others in the way that made sense to me…partly as I found the other descriptions lacking.

Not that the other writers were wrong, or that they didn’t do a good job, it was just that it didn’t resonate with me. Which makes me wonder if others are in the same boat. And based on how many people read my post about good alignment with the Celestron NexStar 8SE, there are others who like my take on how to explain things.

So, just as I have done with my guide to government competitions, I started thinking about another guide in the same vein — A PolyWogg Guide to Astronomy (Completely Unofficial and Totally Unauthorized).

Except not the same. Instead of writing a series of posts that I would eventually cobble together into a book, I am more interested in “tear away” pieces in the form of downloadable documents. One- or two-pagers that condense all the info into a short digestible morsel. No need to read multiple chapters if all you care about is aligning your finder tool to the scope you’re using, for example. Of course, a reader’s mileage may vary, just as mine did with the other elements I read. And to be clear, I don’t want to make any money from these pages, or turn them into a book. I just want to share them with others…if they help someone, great. If not, easy to click elsewhere and move on.

If you have suggestions for topics, or comments on any page, feel free to send them my way!

Posted in Goals | Tagged astronomy, guide, introduction, learning, PolyWogg | Leave a reply

Oh, well, I was doing well on online guides until this one.

The PolyBlog
May 12 2018

I’ve had some decent success in recent days with reading online ebook guides from websites, and Vanilla Forums has one called Gamification for Online Communities. I’m not even going to bother linking to it as it doesn’t deserve the promotion. I confess I have a small hidden agenda in reading it — I’m curious if they know what gaming is to start with or if they just decide it’s too obvious to define. The MOOC course studying games showed that isn’t an irrelevant question (Understanding Video Games – Week 7 – The culture of video games). It starts off strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers | Tagged computers, gamification, guide, website | Leave a reply

An ebook guide to WordPress plugins worth reading

The PolyBlog
May 12 2018

I recently loved WP-Engine’s guide with Torque called “The Ultimate Pre-Launch Checklist for WordPress Websites“. So when they sent me a link for The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins, I was intrigued enough to click-through, sign up, get the ebook and start reading. As with the Checklist, it is divided into multiple simple sections: Marketing — Instagram, SEO, and Sitemap plugins were standard fare, but they also added lead generation, and contest plugins, most of which I would never use but I’ve also never even thought of them as categories that WP had in their repository. Development and Design — … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers | Tagged computers, guide, plugins, website, WordPress | Leave a reply

A website guide worth reading

The PolyBlog
May 12 2018

If you’re reading this, you know that I have a website (the server waves “hello”, by the way). It’s just a personal site, but I’m closing in on a million words worth of posts, so that alone puts me above a number of personal sites out there where people blog for a while and then stop. Plus I’m a bit of a planner, so I approach my site a bit more formally than the “creative” types. (Also explains why it has such a boring layout but that’s another story!). Which quite often means that if I see guides and things … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers | Tagged checklist, computers, guide, website, WordPress | Leave a reply

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