There are times when you need to blackout your entire blog, allowing access to administrators only. This article discusses some of the reasons and predicaments that make the Maintenance Mode plugin so useful. I’ll give you information to create your own custom page for a ‘coming soon’ or launch type announcement. You can use these [...]
This post gives some tips on popular features you can add to your Blogspot blog with little effort: post summaries (ReadMore), recent comments, and recent posts.
Last year, ProBlogger predicted that
“Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.
BloggingWithSuccess draws some interesting Mommy Bloggers. Many are, in their own words, “desperately seeking” our tutorial for creating a scroll box for [...]
Who does not want to improve his or her blog? I want a blog that readers appreciate, and so do you. In fact, everyone wants one!
If everyone wants this kind of success, why do so few achieve it?
Because most bloggers do not hear the voices of their readers. They make decisions by themselves, thinking [...]
Take a look at a “Top Commentators” widget I recently stumbled upon:
All it takes is a look at this list to see how much the owner cares about his blog. Clearly, the top commentators are just trying to get links to their sites from a well-ranked blog.
Now, do you get comments from people with names [...]
On a recent guest post, I got this comment:
Please do not call dial-up “normal”. We are in a time where broadband is more normal thing.
So what and where is the problem?
Well, the post was not about internet connections; it was about small and useful software. And the line that the comment referred to was “these [...]
I’m sure you see some interesting font styling on other blogs and wonder just how they managed those touches. You sigh and think that if you could only monetize your blog, you could hire a designer! Well, you don’t have to go that far to create some of that eye candy. In this post you’ll learn about [...]
Every blogger experiences “writer’s block,” and many have written about it. Often the work-around is to find inspiration in unlikely places. Take a break, sing a song, think of something else to free your mind – it will return refreshed. This process involves some serendipity.
“Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, [...]
Proofreading your work is a sign that you seek excellence for your blog.
Often, however, it’s hard to proofread your own writing because you know what you want to say, and that’s what you see. If English is your second language, or if you didn’t really pay that much attention to the details when you were [...]
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Do Your Comments Suck?
by Mr. I · 29 comments
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On a recent guest post, I got this comment:
Please do not call dial-up “normal”. We are in a time where broadband is more normal thing.
So what and where is the problem?
Well, the post was not about internet connections; it was about small and useful software. And the line that the comment referred to was “these [...]