Tips on Searching My Blog Posts

​It’s Summer – Hooray!! At my house that comes with having morning coffee on my back deck and listening to all the sounds of Nature; woodpeckers, cicadas, scampering chipmunks, and last week, even a deer, bunny, snake and woodchuck roaming through our wooded backyard. A veritable “Wild Kingdom” in the suburbs.
 
One thing that I like to do while I’m drinking my coffee is catch-up on all of the latest blog posts from other designers. I always enjoy, and benefit from, my colleagues techniques, insights, advice and wisdom. Since I’m on my back porch I read their postings from my iPhone – probably like most of you these days.
 
This morning while browsing I looked at my own website and noticed that on the iPhone it’s not readily apparent that I’ve published 97 posts over the past 3 years. So I thought that I would use today’s post to highlight that and to show you how to search all of my blog posts from your phone.
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​​Once you are on the Center Stage Interior Designs website, if you click on the menu in the upper right hand corner (commonly referred to as a “hamburger menu” because of the three parallel lines) and select “Blog” you will be taken to a page with my 10 latest blog posts. If you want to see a blog post that was published before these last 10 posts, simply click on the “<<Previous” icon (located underneath the last post on the left-hand side). This will take you to a page with the previous 10 posts. You can then navigate backward or forward in time by clicking on either the “<<Previous” icon or the “Forward>>” icon.

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​From there, if you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a photo and brief bio of me. Directly below my bio you will see the 17 “Categories” that my blog posts are categorized into. If you click on any of these categories my website will show you all posts in that category.

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​​Similarly, below the “Categories” you will see an “Archives” heading. Beneath that you will see a subheading for each month and year that I’ve written blogs during the past 37 months - from June 2017 through June 2020. Clicking on any of these dates will show you all that posts from that month.

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​My website also has a “Search” function that allows you to search all of the content on my site – both blog posts and all of the other web pages. To access the “Search Box” all you need to do is click on the menu in the upper right hand corner of any page on my website. There, directly above all of the menu headings, you will see the search box. Just type what you’re looking for and press “go” and you’ll be given a listing of all of the items that match your request.

Hopefully these hints will make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for on my website – since with 97 posts there’s a lot of to look at. The Category, Archive and Search functions all exist on the desktop version of my website too – but since the screen is so much larger these functions are pretty obvious – so I won’t discuss them here.
 
As always, it you have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop me a line through my “Contact Us” page or by calling me at 978-440-7264. Until next time, I hope that your Summer is off to a great start.