Monthly Archives: December 2008
Interview With Taylor Thompson From VideoBloggingTips.com
Interviews Todays interview is with Taylor Thompson, the owner of Video Blogging Tips, a blog which gives tips on all aspects of blogging and video blogging. Here is a video of Taylor explaining how you can get backlinks to your blog. It’s a good example of the videos he produces for his blog : I hope you enjoy the interview For those who don’t know you, can you tell everyone a little about yourself and how you first got into blogging. My name ...
Continue readingCSS Basics: List Properties
CSS Last week I covered the HTML Basics for using Lists. This week and next, we will cover the CSS properties for use with lists. List Specific Properties We have 3 properties that are specifically for unordered and ordered lists. list-style-type The list-style-type property allows you to control the appearance of the list ‘marker’ ie. the bullet point style for unordered lists or the numbering system for an ordered list. For both types ...
Continue readingMerry Christmas
Site News Merry Christmas to all Blogging Tips readers. I hope you have a fantastic time over the holiday period
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Gear Up for Work in 2009 (Part III)
Writing This is the last part of the series. Now that you’ve chosen your target market and selected a list of services, as discussed in Parts I and II of preparing for more freelance writing jobs in 2009, it’s time to set your rates. How to Set Your Freelance Writing Rates to Make a Real Living There are probably as many ways to set freelance writing rates as there are freelance writers, so I’m going to simply share with you how I do it, for it is ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Gear Up for Work in 2009 (Part II)
Writing In yesterday’s post (Part I of this three-part series), we discussed putting together a freelance writing marketing plan so that you can land more writing gigs in 2009. Step 1 of Your Freelance Writing Marketing Plan: Target a Niche Part I discussed why you should target a niche. Many freelance writers never take the time to do this, which is why I think so many have a hard time landing writing jobs. Their marketing is too scattered. When you ...
Continue readingModerate WordPress Comments From Your Desktop
WordPress Plugins I came across a cool little script the other day that lets you moderate your WordPress blogs comments via your desktop. Using Adobe AIR, the script lets you : Viewing unmoderated comments. Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments. Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client. Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running. Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : Crenk.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 18th Reader Blog Critique. This weeks review is on Crenk, a technology blog which reviews the latest mobile phones, gadgets and applications. Here are a few issues the owner Steven thinks he needs to address : Sidebar is not actually helping in terms of navigating and finding more interesting content. Lots of readers but they don’t seem to be subscribing. How do you get readers to promote or vote for us on social media sites? ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – December 23rd 2008
Links A quick list of good blog posts from the last week “What Every Webmaster Should Know About…” – 5 webmasters answer the question ‘What do you know now that you wish someone had told you when you were starting out as a webmaster/entrepeneur? 4 Ways to Handle Posting to Your Blog Over the Holidays – A good guide to posting over the festive period. 24 Killer Link Building Strategies for your Blog – A good list of ways ...
Continue readingGoogle Improves Image Search
Blogging News Google recently announced an upgrade in their Google Image Search service. As well as fitering image results by size, users can now filter results depending on the type of image they are searching for. You can filter by news content, faces, clip art, line drawings and photo content. This should help you all find the perfect picture for your blog post. Link : New search-by-style options for Google Image Search
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Gear Up for Work in 2009 (Part I)
Making Money I know it’s the holidays and marketing for freelance writing work is really not high on anyone’s agenda right now. But, the new year is just over a week away. It’ll be here before you know it. And, as the world economy is in the tank right now, now is the time to gear up for work in 2009 if you’re a freelance writer or blogger. It’s probably going to take a lot longer to land gigs because of the recession, so this week, I’ll be ...
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