Do you know the difference between a narrative text and a recount text? Neither do I. Well, but you can start to learn some basic stuff about the differences between text types at “Understanding Types of Text”. This blog has articles with examples on how to use use the different text types.

It talks about different types of text, like narrative, recount, descriptive text, report, explanation, analytical exposition, procedure, discussion, anecdote, spoof, and other variations and genres.

Ok, if you’re curious to know what are the differences between narrative text and recount text, here they are according to the blog:

Narrative Text

Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story

Generic Structure:

1. Orientation
2. Evaluation
3. Complication
4. Resolution
5. Reorientation
   

Dominant Language Features:

1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Chronologically arranged

Recount text:

Purpose: to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event

Generic Structure:

1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Reorientation

Dominant Language Features:

1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives

Ok, now that you have a better understanding of the text types, go on and practice them. :)

On a previous post I talked about how you can build an online store easily. Now I’m going to show you some shopping cart solutions that can help you to choose the right one for you.

We'll be using the offers available at Ashop Commerce, this is a website that offers its customers easy and secure solutions for them to build an online store, and start improving their profit by using an ecommerce solution.

Ashop’s shopping cart solutions are user friendly, this allows anyone to build their online store without the need to have technical knowledge about programming or html coding.

Users can change their sites’s themes using presets (but if they want to, they can also build personalized themes), and get immediate assistance with a live chat tech support build within the admin panel. There are manuals, 24 hour technical support, a knowledge base, and tutorial movies, which is always a cool feature to offer.

The price already includes the shopping cart software, site hosting, security, email, and future upgrades.

Shopping cart solutions that are “Search Engine friendly”

Everybody knows the importance of having your site or online store easy spidered and ranking well on the search engines. Ashop’s shopping cart software includes features that allow this.

The code structure of the pages will make them load fast, the URL’s are spider friendly (having your products keywords will allow them to rank better), self generated or customizable meta tags, the tags are self generated from the content, optimized ASP code.

You will also have access to SEO (search engine optimization) programs if you want to, and get free seo tips and other tools.

And you have the possibility to try a shopping cart software 10 day FREE trial. This will allow you to build your online store and start to sell your products immediately!

If you own a store, and you see that your competitors are already building online stores for their businesses and using shopping cart solutions, maybe it’s time that you start doing it too if you don’t want to be left behind.

Have you ever wanted to build an online store? If you own a business, then this is probably true. And if you’re in the United States, than here’s a good ecommerce solution for you: Ashop Commerce.

This site offers a shopping cart solution and secure shopping cart software so that you can finally build an online store and boost your sales levels and profit.

If you don’t own a business already, that’s ok, because the eCommerce solutions offered by Ashop can easily be used by anyone, even by people with no previous experience on how to build stores, online businesses, etc.

Ashop Commerce in fact is proud to offer its users shopping cart software that can be updated and upgraded at no extra charge for the user, which is something not all shopping cart sites offer, and it also offers high quality hosting. This way when users decide to build their online store, they don’t need to look for hosting somewhere else.

Build an online store and increase your sales

When you build an online store it’s always important to think about how to convert more sales, and it is common sense that an online store’s layout has a great influence in how the customer interacts with the store, how comfortable and safe he feels when moving from page to page, until he finally decides to make a purchase.

Do you know that studies shown that if the users can’t find what they want in 15 seconds or in 3 mouse clicks maximum, they leave the site and move on the another one?

This means that if you can’t give them what they are looking for in this short amount of time, you're losing customers, money, and you're sending your visitors to you competitor’s stores. This way it is easy for you to lose interest in you online store.

To prevent this and to give online store owners a full and positive experience when working with their ecommerce solutions, Ashop offers lots of extra stuff to the shopping cart software.

The software provided by Ashop enables users to edit and update the shopping cart with new products (or delete and add others) from within any page they’re in “inside” the store.

This way a customer can browse through the pages on the online store without leaving the shopping page, which increases the chances that he will keep adding more products that he likes to his shopping cart, before moving to checkout.

If you’re interested, visit the site and imagine the kind of money you can make if you build an online store.

If you feel lucky today, maybe it’s a good idea to use that luck on a lottery. Dream & Win is a lottery site that lets you win good prizes with its wining lottery numbers. Although Bet and Win is based in London, it serves players across Europe, Australia, and Canada.

Anyone can join the games with their lottery numbers and play. And win.

You can sign up and play as long as you’re over 18 years old, of course. But note this: if you are under age or if your country considers these lottery games to be illegal, than it is best that you stay out of it because even you win, Bet & Win will not deliver the prize to you.

Anyway, if you join, you can win dream prizes, like cars, vacations to Maldives Islands, computers, and more. All this if you are lucky enough to get a wining lottery number.

Recently I discovered that teenage girls and boys love to blog, and they can blog about anything from Neopets, to girl on girl relationships. Of course they love internet games and anything else that can be fun for them.

But today I discovered that not only the teenagers like to blog, but their moms also like to have their own blogs and to share their lives with other people across the internet.

In fact, the “stay at home mom” is a blog category that is very popular among some advertisers who have products that are better soled at these types of blogs. Not to mention how popular they are among readers too. There are also directory of blogs by moms, and whole communities of moms who blog.

Anyway, today I came across one of this blogs. The blogs author is a mother of two children, and the blog is mom 2 two (appropriate, don’t you think?). She talks about her life, about how her husband never does the dishes and always has a good excuse for it, about other “stay at home” moms, and other stuff.

One thing I noticed in her blog was that she said that in 10 years of marriage she has moved 5 times. That’s quite impressive, considering that most people spend their entire marriage living at the same house. If you thing that each time you move it’s like starting over again, that can become a bit frustrating I guess, even for "stay at home moms".

Making money with blogs is possible. There are lots of bloggers who are making money with their blogs in many different ways. And if you are a blogger you too can make money blogging.

I use this blog and others to make money, and although it has its own domain, sergioalex.info (I won it in a contest so it didn’t cost me anything really) it uses blogspot for hosting, this means it’s using free hosting.

I’m not making big money with this blog, but it is still a proof that it is possible to make money with blogs in free blog hosting platforms. Actually there are lots of ways you can make money from your blog working from home. I especially like to use paid reviews and advertising for this.

You too can make money whit your blog

I saw today at Munny4Hunny.com, some posts about several ways to make money from blogs, using sites that pay for reviews, like PayU2Blog, or Smorty. The blog is also a paid to blog example, it uses review sites as a source of income, and it has some tips about blogs, and other blog related stuff.

Its latest post is about the importance of being true to yourself, and it’s related to the fact that sometimes bloggers feel that they are becoming slaves to things like the RSS feed reader stats, the daily adsense earnings, the blogs Pagerank, and other rankings that can be of importance, like technorati authority or Alexa Rank.

Teenagers love the internet. They also love internet stuff like Neopets (see the previous post), MySpace, Twitter, and of course, Blogs.

Actually I think the idea most people have about blogs is that they are a “teenager’s thing”, a teenager’s online diary, and this is especially true when it comes to blogs being written by teenagers.

Check the glam baby! blog, for instance. The author speaks her mind about anything and everything in her life. She talks about her love and addiction to blogging, other blogs that she discovers, or her girl to girl relationship. She appears to be making revelations about her private life one of her last posts, where she says she is in a relationship with another girl.

There is nothing wrong in a teenage girl being in a relationship with another girl, this a normal thing of course, but you can see how that post has received a lot more comments than the previous ones. Actually blog readers love this kind of “revelations”, especially if they are teens.

Note: The blog wasn’t available when I wrote this post, but you can visit Google’s cached version of it, by typing “cache:” followed by the blog’s address, in Google’s search bar.

JesseNeo and the NeoPets. No, that’s not the name an horror movie. Jesse Neo is a young blogger, 16 years old I think, blogging his life and interests in the JesseNeo blog. The minute you enter his cool looking blog you’ll know what is passion in life is: Neopets. Ok, but what’s this NeopPets stuff?

Neo pets are good for anyone who loves pets, but that for some reason, can’t have ou don’t want to have a “real” pet. The Neo pets are virtual pets. There are actually millions of people who “own” neo pets, and millions of neo pets being owned by someone. I haven’t yet joined this neopet fever, but it looks interesting.

Neopet users can do a lot of stuff there at the website, play games and other stuff. You can learn how to draw neopets, this way you can have your own personalized neopet. You can also learn how to draw Petpets, faeries, and more.

There are also downloads that you can make from the “Neopets central”. You can download neopets backgrounds, neopet screensavers, neopet buddy icons, neopet fun images, shop blogs, visit the music section, and do a lot of other cool stuff.

And at the JesseNeo site you can find many tutorials, graphics, guides, tips, and lots of goodies to start you in the Neopets world.

I don’t know about you, but I like to visit blogs about current events, and that discuss the really important issues in life, instead of blogs with garbage posts. Ok, that being said, Let’s talk about the new blog I’ve visited today.

It’s about… yeah, you guessed it: current events and other stuff. It sees “knowledge has a hole”, and shares it with the visitors. The blog’s name is Teknosis, and it’s for everyone who is interested in rising high.

I noticed that Teknosis is accepting publicity in the sidebar, so if you have a cool banner and need some publicity, check it out. As for the price, the advertising is offered by Project Wonderful (click one of the ad spots at Tecknosis to visit the site), and it is based on an auction system. The higher bidder gets to have its ad or banner displayed.

This advertising system looks interesting, and it uses what they call the “infinite auction” model, in which the advertiser bids on an advertising spot, and gets his add displayed for as long as he has the high bid for the spot.

I bet you’re wondering about the title of this post, huh?

Well, “CC’s Online Sanctuary” is the name of a blog that I’ve discovered today.

This is an interesting blog, about anything and everything, with lots of interesting posts, but the reason why I’m writing about it, is because in one of the posts, the author is talking about that “linky love” thing that has been appearing in many blogs lately.

To participate in this, just copy the following text, from “start copying here” to “end copying here”, including the list of links, to your blog, and add to the end of the list your name (with a link) and your country. If you want to have your link here, just leave it in the comments, and I will include it to the list.

~ start copying here ~
Join the Worldwide Link Love! Benefits of Worldwide Link Love!
1. Make new friends around the world.
2. Feel the Link Love.
3. Gain new readers and subscribers.

Rules:
1. Copy from ~start copying here ~ to ~ end copying here ~ and paste it on your blog.
2. At the end of the list, put your name and the country you’re in, it doesn’t matter what’s your nationality just put the country where you are publishing your blog. Don’t forget to put links at your name.
3. If u have many blogs, you can link all of it, just make sure you post the same on each blog.
4. Tag eight (8) or more of your blog friends.
5. Tip for blogspot users: make sure you copy and paste the code in Compose mode. Wanna join, and you can’t find your name on the list? Just leave a comment here.

Worldwide Link Love! Participants:

1. Julia (Philippines)

2. Catherine (Malaysia)

3. shimumsy(u.s.a)

4. Mitch (Philippines)

5. Hailey (Philippines)

6. Sexymom (USA)

7. Liza (Philippines)

8. Ness (USA)

9. Lira (USA)

10 Nancy (Philippines)

11. CC (USA)

12. Catnapper (USA)

13. Pinay

14. Keep

15. Feel

16. Sheshh

17. Sergio Alex (Portugal)

~ end copying here ~

Today I visited a shopping cart software provider. AshopCommerce offers an easy way to create online stores for anyone who is looking to start an online business from scratch or just to build an online store for their already established business.

If you are looking for an eCommerce solution to build your own business online, you should visit Ashop before making a final decision. With years of experience developing eCommerce software, this company is confident that it can offer the best solution in the market to anyone who wants to build an online store.

Ashop offers some advantages when compared to other shopping cart or eCommerce solution providers, and unique features. Some of them are:

Easy setup, professional and high quality functionality and design, no programming skills or graphic designing skills required, free tech support, free software user manual, tutorial movies, and more.

It also offers sales analysis which includes traffic reports, search engine reports (traffic and keywords), sales reports, best sellers, affiliate reports, information about the recent visitor’s activity, visitor country, and others.

To see the full list of available features, click the “features” link on the homepage.

I especially liked the “Demo store” feature offered by Ashop. This allows you to take a test drive of your new store and see how everything works, before making a final decision.

In this demo store or online store simulator, you can have access to the admin panel, and to the frontend page. This way you can see exactly how the online store would look to customers.

You can also try a 10 day free trial. No credit card required for this.

If you are looking for an easy eCommerce solution and want to start selling your products online, in an affordable and secure way, visit this shopping cart software website and build your own online store.

Nursing schools are important to make sure that nurses and other nursing staff are proper trained to perform their medical profession in the best way possible by offering them the right CNA courses(CNA: Certified Nursing Assistant).

Medical Career Training, can provide students who want to get a degree in the nursing profession with help in finding the best CNA schools for them, can training and other resources, according with their location or needs.

Visit medical career training today and start looking for that CNA training school that is going to improve your skills and turn you into a professional.

Are you looking for a medical career as a sonography technician? If you are, then here is a webpage for you: sonography schools.

This page is in the Medical Career Training site, and has lots of information about the sonographer profession, with things like job description, or the kind equipment used by the professionals in this career.

And ther is also a big list of medical schools, some of them online, where you can proceed with your career, get a degree and become a professional sonography tech.

There are many sites on the internet showing you ways to make money online (gagner de l'argent). Some of them promise you that you can get rich (devenir riche) fast if you enroll in some king of “magic money making”. With so many different sites saying this, it is difficult to know in which ones to trust.

Today I’ve discover a site that is offering the visitors the possibility to win from $200 to $500 a day! It uses a “method” of making money online by placing bets in casinos.

This method must not be used in real casinos, but only in virtual ones. It consists basically in using a gaming rule in the casino game of “Roulette”, by placing bets based on the previous winning colors and numbers.

The casinos must be the ones pointed out by this site for the method to work. The method is legal, and according to the site, offers a secure way to win money, without risk, as long as the players follow the rules entirely.

If you are curious about this, and want to learn how to get this “argent facile” (easy money), visit the site.

BlogTV is a site that lets you create and broadcast live TV shows and to have live video chats with the other BlogTV users.

What do you need to broadcast a live tv show with Blog TV?

To have your own live internet TV show, you’ll need:

• An Internet connection
• A webcam
• A PC with these minimum specifications: Pentium 4, 128MB Memory, and the Flash Player must be up to date
• To be a registered user in Blog TV (you’ll have to give your e-mail address during the registration process, but it will be kept private)

That’s it! Your broadcast is your live TV show, and you have the possibility to record it if you want to.

Tip: you can have other programs running on your computer at the same time, while you are broadcasting your live show.

Extra tip: you can visit Manycam.com and learn how to add cool special effects to your webcam live video shows, like adding text to the video window, CGI effects and animations, time and date, and lots of other cool stuff. You can even make it look like it’s snowing inside your house!

The videos can be rated so if you make good and interesting videos, they’ll rate higher! You can rate other user’s videos too.

And you can also look up information about the users who enter your live show, chat with them, or even kick them out of your show!

Visit Blog TV and start your own live broadcast and live TV on the web using your webcam.

So you’ve always wanted to become a nurse and now you are looking for the right nursing school, huh? You can start by taking a look at Medical Career Training. This website offers you a list of medical schools and resources not only for nursing careers but for any other field of medical careers.

Back to the nursing field, it offers you links to featured nursing schools, displayed by “Online schools”, and “Campus Schools”.

In the Online schools list, there are schools like the University of Phoenix, the Kaplan University, the Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, the National American University, or the Walden University.

In the Campus Schools, you can find the links to the University of Phoenix (multiple locations), the Lincoln Technical Institute, the Sanford-Brown College, or the Virginia College, in Pensacola.

And for the pharmacy technician, there is also a variety of schools and colleges. And there is also information about the pharmacy technician salary, covering the median salaries that these technicians receive.

You can choose the medical school that is best for your career, no matter if it is in pharmacy tech, nursing, or in any other medical field. Also feel free to check this other post that I wrote about medical career training.

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