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.
Tired of boring text links? Need to save space in your sidebar? Then consider an attractive image with more than one hyperlink spot. You’ve seen corporate sites with maps where you pick a city or state for local information. Another example is a painting of prominent 18th century figures seated around a table. Click each [...]
WordPress is the most feature rich and extensible blogging platform. WP is easy to use and there are lot of plugins and themes available. However, newbies might find it difficult to install WordPress for a self-hosted blog. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to install WP in one of three ways: Via FTP [...]
Most of us don’t think much about our current blog design unless someone complains or we get tired of the theme. We go merrily along creating great content. But not taking stock of existing design flaws is like skipping your annual doctor visit or car inspection – just waiting for something to go wrong. Blog [...]
When you see a blogging tip you can usually tell right away if it’s for WordPress, Blogger or both. In our tutorial about adding a grab button scroll box , the code includes a html tag, <textarea>to create the scroll box. The box holds the customized html code for visitors to copy and paste your [...]
In this post you’ll learn how to make a ” grab my button” image change like a public billboard, using PhotoBucket.com as a resource. The part one post on turning your button into a billboard has tips for using size attributes to accommodate different sidebars finding out who has grabbed your button replacing your image [...]
“Grab My Button” is a good tool for promotion! Readers grab your custom image to show support and you get additional traffic. In the tutorial: Grab My Button, Promote My Blog , we learned to create a scroll box to hold the html code for your blog image and link. In this tutorial, we will [...]
Image by Terriko via Flickr You’ve posted a “Grab My Button” scroll box in your side bar. Now friends can copy the code and install it on their blogs. They’ll use your button to showcase their ‘favorite sites’, related blogs, niche networks or as a ‘thanks’ for helping them with a problem. All at no [...]
Recently we learned how to add custom social bookmarking icons for WordPress. Well, that lovely feature is “NO LONGER JUST FOR WP!” I wrote a Blogger tutorial at BPWebNews, “Adding Custom Social Bookmarks to Blogger.” In this BWS sequel post I’ll talk about the Blogger hack and some more tips for using the WP version. [...]
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