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Is blogging really just for old timers?
Blogger, Blogging, Blogging News, Social Media, Writing Maybe I’m just hyper-sensitive on the whole topic of getting older. After all, I’m getting ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of my 37th birthday (you do the math), so of course, anything that seems like it’s age-related is just jumping out at me. So the headline “Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so” hit me almost as hard as the ma’ams do when I’m out buying groceries. According to a ...
Continue readingTwitter Talk: Good or Bad for Your Blog?
Blogger Twitter was the most spoken word for 2009. That’s kind of a big deal, considering everything else that has gone on in the past year, from the election of the first African American president into the white house and a struggling economy to say the least. Yet Twitter was so frequently spoken about because of its presence as a communication hub, giving us a way in which to discuss all the things that we like to talk about–like Obama ...
Continue readingThree Tricks for Speedy Sentence Structure
Blogger For most of my blogging career I was known as a speedy blogger. It was a primary reason why I was hired for blogs such as Mashable, as I was able to coherently test and review a website under pressure. Many have asked me how I am able to write in this way, so I figured I would share a few things that help me write. Before I jump in, I would also like to note that writing can improve with practice and exercise. As with learning to ride a bike, ...
Continue readingYou and your users
Blogger How you communicate with your users on your website is very important. If you don’t send the right message then they will move onto another website. With so many blogs on the Internet you have to be different and it can be as simple as how you communicate to your users. It can be how you write your articles or how you set the website up. I came across a question recently regarding the text used to invite a user to sign up to a websites ...
Continue readingHow to create a simple Gadget for Blogger with the new API (Part 1)
Blogger Last week, I explained Blogger’s new API for Gadgets which enables us to draw upon Blogger feeds in order to create useful and interactive gadgets. In this post, I’ll explain how to create a very simple Gadget which draws upon Blogger feeds to create a simple “subscription” gadget which you can install in your Blogger blog. Unlike regular “widget installers”, anyone who installs this gadget in their blog will ...
Continue reading20 Fabulous Resources for Free Blogger Templates
Blogger, Design & Coding Now more than ever the availability of quality Blogger templates astounds me. Talented designers and coders have turned their attentions to the vast market of those using Google Blogger as their platform of choice, resulting in a wonderful variety of templates – most of which are free to download! From simple, elegant designs to quirky, feminine and elaborate styles there are Blogger templates to suit every taste and requirement. Through ...
Continue readingBlogger Tip: Create a Dropdown Menu for your Labels
Blogger Our sidebars can become cluttered easily with information and widgets, particularly if we have a long list of labels (categories) . Many Blogger users like using drop-down lists for long lists which minimizes clutter and enables information to be displayed in the sidebar neatly. While Blogger offers a dropdown menu option for the Archives widget, we do not have the option to enable a dropdown list for our labels. So in this tutorial, I will ...
Continue readingChina’s Ban on Blogger Blogs (and Possible Workarounds)
Around The Blogosphere, Blogger There has been much speculation about China’s recently imposed “blanket ban” of all Blogger powered blogs. Some believe this is intended to quell references to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, while others wonder if this is a technical difficulty as hinted on Blogger’s Known Issues page. In either case, this ban affects blogs hosted on the *blogspot.com subdomain (approximately 275 million) and also ...
Continue readingBlogger Users-Enable Readers to Save Posts to PDF using Web2PDF Online
Blogger, Design & Coding One of the most interesting and useful Blogger hacks I’ve recently discovered is the ability to save Blogger posts to PDF. In my own blogs, I tend to write long posts and tutorials, so I feel it benefits my readers to save or print off these articles for later use. So after stumbling across Web2PDF Online, I immediately set to putting this free service to good use. Web2PDF Online offers a free service for bloggers and web publishers which ...
Continue reading10 Stunning New Blogger Templates you can Download for Free
Blogger, Design & Coding As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, the sheer quality of Blogger templates has increased dramatically this past year or so. Now that talented designers and coders have begun to understand the widespread appeal of Blogger, we are presented with wonderful, intricate and highly usable Blogger templates to enhance the overall appearance of our blogs and dazzle our growing readerships. In this post, I’d like to introduce you to ten ...
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