Blogging Tips

Why Your Blog Should Probably Have a Print Stylesheet

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 …

Written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks
Posted on February 29th, 2008 and filed under CSS
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Ten Web Publishing DONTs

In 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 …

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK
Posted on February 29th, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Writing
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Blogs that connect

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 …

Written by Kris Larson from Carthage
Posted on February 28th, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Blogging Tips Competition: 5 Prizes

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 …

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK
Posted on February 28th, 2008 and filed under Competitions
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Additional methods to make money from your blog : Paid Posts

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on February 28th, 2008 and filed under Making Money
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Write blog posts in advance

Do you write your blog posts in advance or do you write them as you need to post them? Either way is fine but I find the tendency to fall behind is far greater when you’re writing 1 post at a time. Certainly blogging should be fun but I find it more of a chore when I get behind in my posting schedule. Here are some things that …

Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog
Posted on February 28th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Knowing When to Comment

Today i read an interesting post from Yuwanda. She talked about how she decides whether or not she will comment on a blog, and for her, its whether or not the blog can deliver some traffic as a result of her comment. I have decided to take a slightly different angle on the same subject, and talk about the quality of the comment you leave, after you decided its worth …

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK
Posted on February 27th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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