Written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks on February 29, 2008

If your blog has well-written and informative articles, like any good blog should, you should probably have a well-formatted print stylesheet declared. Just like your regular “screen” CSS controls how your webpage looks in a browser, the “print” stylesheet controls how your webpage prints on a printer.

First things first, you need to declare the stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />

Alternatively, you can pack all your “media styles” into one stylesheet, which is efficient as it reduces the number of server calls your page needs to make. Within a single CSS…

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Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on February 29, 2008

Web Publishing DontsIn my last article, we looked at Ten Web Publishing DOs, we learned to think about your target audience, to publicizing your site and to ask permission for content. Today we are going to look at the opposite side of the spectrum, and dive into the ten things you SHOULDNT do as a web publisher.

So without further adu, lets get started.

DON’T Limit Your Audience

Be careful when designing your pages not to inadvertently limit your audience by using some oddball feature that can’t be accessed by large numbers of people who…

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Written by Kris Larson from Carthage on February 28, 2008

A sobering moment for all us bloggers in the ‘sphere. The author of the blog Brain Hell died on February 2. His blog chronicled the diagnosis and gradual progression of his illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and was an amazing, moving series of letters to the world. As he preferred to remain anonymous while he was alive, I will refrain from using his name here.

The blog is still online. Seeing all the loving comments after each entry serves as a reminder that blogs can connect us to one another. No matter…

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on February 28, 2008

Free Stuff !!!!

No – Really – Free Stuff.

And this is not some strange new usage of the word “free” that involves you paying money for something to get the “free” stuff.

This is the dictionary definition of the word free –

Costing nothing; gratuitous; without charge

I am not even going to rant on about the amount of times I discover something that is “free,” requiring a payment of some kind. But this is genuinely free, gratis and for nothing – it won’t cost you a penny – just a few minutes of…

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Written by Kevin from System0 on February 28, 2008

I’m sure most of you are aware of the most popular ways to make money from your blog. Affiliate links and sales of banner and text links make up the majority of ad revenue for blogs however there are other methods which you can use to increase revenue from your blog and the more subscribers your blog gets the more opportunities you have to take advantage of these methods.

I have been thinking of adding paid post options to the advertising page of BloggingTips so I thought I would discuss some…

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