Monthly Archives: December 2008
5 Ways To Simplifiy Your LifeStream
Social Media Within the past 2-3 years, we have seen an explosion of sites and services spring up across the web. Don’t blame me but this time period of the web will most likely forever be known as Web 2.0. This new creativity spurt is responsible for Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Most bloggers these days, especially freelancers have accounts on one or more of these sites. If you operate your own blog, you could easily publish links to ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : BradBlogging.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 17th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of JobMob generated some great replies, I’m sure this weeks will too This weeks review is on BradBlogging, a blogging tips and advice blog which has been online for around a year. Here are a few questions the owner Brad would like to ask you all : If you loaded this blog in your browser right this second, would you remember the design or logo compared to other people’s ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – December 16th 2008
Links A quick roundup of some of the best posts from the last week Which Permalink Structure To Choose ? What the Pros say – Myself and a few other bloggers give their opinion on which permalink structure you should use on WordPress and why. Matt Mullenweg, WordPress, GPL and why I think he really gets it – Alister Cameron gives his view on a topic which still divides a lot of people, theme sponsorship. Should you Close all IM’s While ...
Continue readingHow to Decide How Personal to Get On Your Blog
Blogging I cringe when I read some blogs because the information is so personal. I often wonder, “Don’t they realize that once it hits the “airwaves” of the internet it’s there forever?” But, one of the elements of a popular blog – in my humble opinion – is that some of your personality shines through. And, that means sharing some of your personal life. So, how do you decide how much to share? Following are some guidelines I use. It’s ...
Continue reading8 Free Festive Blogger Templates
Blogger As Christmas is less than one week away, many bloggers are searching for festive themed templates to add a little holiday spirit to their blogs. Here are 8 free festive themed templates for the Blogger platform which you can download for free!
Continue readingCustom Styling for Posts
WordPress Coding & Design In WordPress having a custom style for a static Page is fairly easy when you use Page Templates, however the same is not so straight forward for your posts. You may wonder why you would want to style some posts differently to others. WordPress is now so much more than just a simple blogging platform. You can use it as a fully fledged photo gallery, as a CMS for your website, or a combination of these. So how do we do this? There are at least ...
Continue readingTop 3 Article Marketing Tips That Will Change The Way You Write
Writing If you are starting with article marketing, you will find this post to be useful. I always offer these three tips to anyone who asks me about article marketing. These are also the three things that I check before I submit any article to article directories. Before reading these three tips, you might want to learn about article marketing and how it will help you gain top ranks in search engines. If you have already started article marketing, you ...
Continue readingInterview With Elina From ParentReviewers.com
Interviews A few weeks ago I asked Newsletter readers if they would like to be interviewed on the blog, which I think is a great way for Blogging Tips readers to get to know each other better. Our first interview is with Elina, a Malaysian blogger who runs the Parenting blog Parent Reviewers. 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. I am a full time ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Images
Design & Coding Once you’ve got your text on a page, the next thing that you usually want to add are images. Images can be used to add visuals to content, or can be used to improve the overall design of a site. To display images on the page you need to use the tag img. Note, this is for images within the content. Background images should be set using the CSS background property. The basic use of the image tag is <img src="images/image.gif" alt="My ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.7 Released
WordPress Less than a day after Automatic released Release Candidate 2 of WordPress 2.7, they have announced that the full stable version of WordPress 2.7 is now available to download (known as ‘Coltrane’). I encourage you all to download 2.7 as this is a major release and has a host of new features and options. Check out this video to learn more about WordPress 2.7 : If you want to get the most out of 2.7, I recommend reading Sarah’s ...
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