Ever wondered why some tweets come along with the twitter name of the blog owner and others not?
It is not magic to add your own twitter ID to your own self hosted blog.
Step 1
Go to your Dashboard Read the rest of this entry
Mai8
Category Archives: Help
Apr3
How to make your picture feel comfortable
We all love to have pictures on the blog. It looks so much better and more interesting.
But it is not only about adding pictures to the blog, we want it to look cool too.
Uploading pictures
First you have to upload you picture.
Hit the camera-button:
click “Select file” …
… and upload your picture.
Now you have to select one out of four way to align your picture. Read the rest of this entry
Mrz13
Embedding Fonts in my Blog?
When I recently posted about the font “Fraktur” Melanie Kissel asked a question via facebook:
how in the world do you take the fonts you download and use them on your blog?? I have yet to figure that out and it’s a shame because I’ve got quite a large collection of fonts waiting in the wings.
A very good question I have to admit. Read the rest of this entry
Mrz6
Help the Commenter
Last Thursday I moaned a bit about the pain of commenters.
The desire to interact, to communicate with the blogger, which is sometimes not really possible.
But it is easy for us bloggers to help our reader, our commenter to interact.
We all love the little checkbox “Notify me of follow-up comments via email” Read the rest of this entry
Feb28
Tip Tuesday – Schedule your Article
This function saves me a lot of time.
I can write my blog articles whenever I have time and use the wordpress schedule option to publish them at date and time I want them to go online.
Scheduling via WordPress
If you explore your blog you will find that function easily.
I will show you how to do it with WordPress. Read the rest of this entry
Feb5
Sharing and caring – what Web 2.0 is about
What is it about?
Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, dig, tumblr, google+ …
… user generated content.
That’s what we call Social Media these days.
People get connected.
The monolog of few becomes a dialog of many. Read the rest of this entry
Nov27
How to upload a picture?
There are many places on the internet, where you would like to share a picture.
Some services offer their own webspace – like facebook.
But other services, like forums, want a special link to share the picture.
So you will need an image host, to do that.
Imagehosts are:
- Flickr
- Imageshack
- Imagehosting
- Bilderload (German)
- tinypic
- Photobucket
Some expect that you register yourself, others work without registration, and hosters like Imageshack offer both options. Read the rest of this entry