Blogging Tips

Blogger’s New Features in Detail

As you may have read in Kevin’s recent post, Blogger is in the process of adding some major new features to the system. Currently available to those logging in through Blogger in Draft, the most prolific features include:

A comment form beneath blog posts
An import/export feature (which can also be used as a backup system)
Star ratings, which readers can use to rate your posts
A brand new post editor, with much greater …

Written by Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster
Posted on June 30th, 2008 and filed under Blogger
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Don’t place more than one ‘Advertise Here’ banner on your blog

I have read a lot of posts on blogging and web development related blogs in the last few weeks. Many of these blogs are only a few months old and are unfortunately making the same mistake in their ad area.

One technique bloggers use to advertise an ad space is to place a default ‘Advertise here’ banner in their sidebar however I have seen many blogs putting 2 or more of these …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 30th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Using Conditional Tags

Conditional tags allow you to control the information displayed on a page depending on whether a certain criteria is met. They’re always used in a standard PHP if statement and there are conditional tags for almost every check that you could think of.

The PHP Code

The PHP code used with conditionals is a standard PHP if statement. ie.

if (condition) {
statement here;
}

Using a Conditional Tag

The most used conditional tag I use is …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on June 29th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Fancy Forms

Forms can be a bit of a pain to style, in the old days tables were the method of choice to align everything just right, but this is the future; CSS OR DIE! P.Diddy will come to your home and kill you if you use tables for presentational markup. So in order to prevent a Diddy disaster here is some helpful information, I accept thanks for saving …

Written by John Leschinski from Leschinski Design
Posted on June 28th, 2008 and filed under CSS
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3 Ways To Get More Than 100 Fans In StumbleUpon

You might already know that I’ll be writing on social sites like stumbleupon, sphinn etc. for the next few weeks on every Saturday. Before reading this post and also the other upcoming posts, I recommend you to read my last week’s post on 3 things you have to do before submitting a post to a social site.

In every social site, having many friends and fans is one of …

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune
Posted on June 28th, 2008 and filed under Social Networking
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When Freelance Writing Becomes A Business

For some reasons unbeknown to me, the description freelance writer carries a sour bi-taste for some people. I suppose the actual “freelance” in the description is what makes certain people cringe. This isn’t a problem though until it happens to a potential client. So what can a freelance writer do to have potential clients respect them …

Written by Monika Mundell from Monika Mundell
Posted on June 27th, 2008 and filed under Writing
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Blogger adds some new features

Blogger in Draft yesterday announced some new features which you can try out in their draft area.

Here’s a quick list of some of the new features :

Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences.
The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 27th, 2008 and filed under Blogger
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