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Wel­come to A Dad’s Life, a long­stand­ing daddy blog focus­ing on pro­vid­ing dads with use­ful and rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion. To find out more about me, the dad who writes this not-too-shabby site, please click over to the About me page.

How to use this site

Peo­ple use the Inter­net dif­fer­ently. It’s all about how you pre­fer to con­sume infor­ma­tion.  I like to clas­sify the pref­er­ences of con­sump­tion as the hard­core surfer, the road war­rior or the tra­di­tion­al­ist. How to best use this site depends on which one of these clas­si­fi­ca­tions you fall into.

The hard­core surfer

If you get most of your infor­ma­tion from the Inter­net by surf­ing it and read­ing sites, then you’re a hard­core surfer.  This is not a bad thing. In fact, most web­site own­ers love you as they get to flash all of their ads at you and count your eye­balls in the sta­tis­tics they show adver­tis­ers.  You’re a proven and high-valued commodity.

For you, please add A Dad’s Life to your browser’s book­marks and sub­scribe to the daily email updates.  Your pri­vacy is assured and you will get one email between 5 am and 7 am East­ern time con­tain­ing a list of what I’ve writ­ten the day before. Just click on the link in the email and you’ll be brought right back here to read the won­der­ful and infor­ma­tive posts. If you use Twit­ter, fol­low A Dad’s Life and you’ll be alerted imme­di­ately when a new post is up.

The road warrior

If you get most of your infor­ma­tion by way of your mobile device (smart­phone or tablet com­puter), then you’re a road war­rior. You like stay­ing “in the know” con­stantly and get­ting infor­ma­tion rather than pretty web­site design is impor­tant to you.  I’m there with you brother, this one is me.

For you, please sub­scribe to the daily email updates so that you get the daily posts in email for­mat. They’ll be there wait­ing to be read on the train, sub­way or while you’re wait­ing for the kids’ sport­ing event to fin­ish.  If you use Twit­ter, and as a road war­rior you should, please fol­low Adad­slife. You’ll get instant updates when posts are up.

Lastly, if you are an RSSer, sub­scribe to the RSS feed.  This is how I stay up-to-date on all the sites I fol­low. I use Reeder for the iPhone and it’s fan­tas­tic. How­ever, as a road war­rior, you prob­a­bly already have a favorite RSS reader.

The tra­di­tion­al­ist

If you only occa­sion­ally surf the web, don’t use Twit­ter and have no idea what RSS is, you’re a tra­di­tion­al­ist. There’s noth­ing wrong with that. You’re prob­a­bly very busy liv­ing and doing. That’s awesome.

For you, please sub­scribe to the daily email. Your pri­vacy is assured and you’ll get an email from A Dad’s Life once a day with a sum­mary of the pre­vi­ous day’s posts.  When you do find time to sit at your com­puter, these emails will be there wait­ing for you with all their use­ful and inter­est­ing information.

How to find inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant posts

The site shows the three most recent posts on the front page. At the bot­tom of the front page is a nav­i­ga­tion link where you can click through pre­vi­ous posts. This is prob­a­bly the least effec­tive way of search­ing A Dad’s Life but it’s cer­tainly an inter­est­ing way. If you don’t have any par­tic­u­lar topic you’re curi­ous about, then by all means, go ahead and click through the pre­vi­ous entries for daddy infor­ma­tion goodness.

If you have have a spe­cific topic you’re inter­ested in such as “shav­ing your back”, then use the search box on the right side of the page. Just enter your topic, shav­ing your back, and hit enter. You’ll be taken to a page show­ing all posts that were tagged with the words shav­ing you back.  The algo­rithm used is based more on art than sci­ence so your mileage may vary in terms of how rel­e­vant the result will be. But, give it a try.

The most pre­cise way to search for a more gen­eral topic is to search by topic (cat­e­gory in blog lan­guage). Just click on “Archive” on the right hand side of any page and you’ll be taken to a page that allows you to pull up posts by date or by a spe­cific topic (again, it says “cat­e­gory”). Click on any topic and all the posts that relate to that topic will be shown.

Final favor

Well, that’s it. If you’ve made it all the way down here, thank you. You are a rar­ity these days. I am work­ing hard to make this site infor­ma­tive and rel­e­vant for you.

I do ask a favor of you.  If you use RSS, please sub­scribe to the A Dad’s Life RSS feed. It’s the only way I can gauge how well I’m doing. Thank you.

If you would like to con­tact me for any rea­son, please send me an email. I’ll get back to you right away.