Monthly Archives: June 2008
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Social Media Last week Leeuh posted a thread in the forums asking BloggingTips members what Social Networking sites they use. My reply was honest yet kind of embarassing for someone who blogs every day : Social networking is something I know I must do more often but I find it difficult to find the time. I’d much rather spend my time researching a topic or writing a post however I am aware of the traffic benefits of using social media so I need to try ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – June 17th 2008
Links The Bloggers Union Revealed! – The Secret To Making Money With Affiliate Marketing>/li> 4 Power Tips To Make Your Blogging More Productive Tatttoos For Bloggers Part 2 13 Ways to Grab Attention Blog Tip Sharing Project 4: StumbleUpon Primer 5 Golden Rules to Maximize Your Guest Blogging Benefits How To Improve The ROI Of Your Guest Posts Link Building Tip: Build Backlinks to Internal Pages Too Are You Plurking Yet?
Continue readingFireFox 3 released
Internet News Tomorrow, June 17th 2008, is the official launch of FireFox 3, the latest FireFox client which has been in development for a whopping 34 months! To coincide with the release Mozilla are trying to set a Guiness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. I used Opera for years but switched my main browser to FireFox a year or two ago and haven’t looked back. You can make a pledge to download the browser tomorrow if you like but ...
Continue readingShow us your blog travel kit
Blogging Chris Garrett wrote a post today detailing his portable blog writing kit. I’ve travelled a lot over the last few years so my travelling kit has changed and improved as technology has advanced. I’m a bit of a gadget geek to boot so I love reading posts like that. It’s great to see how other people get on with their work when they are out and about. My setup is extremely similar to Chris’s. Chris uses primarily uses a ...
Continue readingHighlight Featured Posts
WordPress Coding & Design Sometimes you want to write a post that stands out from the rest. Usually giving the selected post an additional CSS class will do the trick, but how do you work out which posts need highlighting? This is simply done by creating a new category called ‘Featured’ (note you can call the category anything you like, but I’ll refer to it as Featured in this post). If you create a new category called ‘Featured’ to ...
Continue readingAccessibility Checklist
Design & Coding Last week Aaron Cannon, a web developer and accessibility consultant who is blind, wrote his version of an accessibility checklist. That is not to say that when followed you will have a 100% accessible site, but it’s a great guide to keep in mind when tackling a new design, and a lot of the items are just good semantics. Here are a few of the items from the list. Make sure headings use <h1>, rather then a <p> or <div> ...
Continue readingMixx Is Not For You If You Say YES To Even Any One Of The Three Questions
Social Networking Image Source: desi.italy You would have been reading my posts on mixx every Saturday on this blog for the past one month or so. Some of you would have tried mixx already. Mixx is a good social site where almost any blogger has a chance to get to the front page irrespective of the experience of the blogger. If the post is good and presented well, it can make to the front page easily and it isn’t like many other social sites where a post needs ...
Continue readingUse Liquid Story Binder XE For All Your Writing Needs
Writing Liquid Story Binder XE is a fabulous software that I have only recently discovered. What I really like about it is its versatility and ease of use once you get over the initial learning process. The software is a shareware product which means you can download it for free and it will be fully functional with all the trimmings. However, after a period of 30 non consecutive days of use, Liquid Story Binder will cease to work. However, you can ...
Continue readingHow to add borders to your images in posts
CSS I always think it’s a good idea to add images to blog posts when you can. They make posts visually more appealing and are useful for breaking up large sections of text. Using CSS, you can add a border to your post images to make them even more appealing. To do this you first need to find the CSS class which controls what happens in your posts. If you edited the img selector on it’s own you would edit how every image on your blog is ...
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Blogger Blogger’s comment system is quite different to that of other blogging services, and is not so “friendly” to regular readers who may not understand how this system works. When faced with a default comment form, visitors to Blogger blogs may feel rather daunted and unwilling to participate in the conversation. However, there are many settings which Blogger authors can change which makes commenting more enticing for readers who ...
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