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: Tip Tuesday
Mai1
Space along the Sea
My friend Ruth of SebaSilver has asked for a little advice today.
She usually brightens up our day not only with the fantastic filigree silver jewels her husband designs on the sunny island of Korcula but also with lovely poems she posts now and then in her blog.
Guess most of you have read this lovely poem “Sea-Fever” by John Masefield.
Apr24
TIP: A valid Address for my Post
You know that each of your blog posts has a specific address, so that you can link to that very post. We call that permalink. Have you ever notice the URL of your blog post?
Some blog posts come along with a permalink like http://yourdomain.com/?p=24.
Easy to remember? – I doubt it! Read the rest of this entry
Apr17
Aloha … lets fly away
@ Klaus Brüheim/pixelio.de
Yes TipTuesday, but no technical tip today.
Do you mind that I am not in the mood? To much pressure these days in my life and I just can’t focus my mind on techie stuff.
So here is my tip for today … allow yourself now and then not to be on track. Read the rest of this entry
Apr10
Hold your breath – GASP
We are all afraid of spam. Spam is not only that nasty meaty stuff in cans or the sketch by Monthy Pythons …
… it is the plague of modern web communication.
Everybody wants to flood your site with undesidered links. Click me click me, they shout.
So we need a gate, a wall to keep them away.
There are several possibilities to protect your blog – even on not self hosted blogs. Read the rest of this entry
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
Mrz27
Add the right Tag and save Space
When browsing the blogs of some of my fellow bloggers, I see now and then blog homepages with large and extended posts. Actually the whole blog post appears on the very first page, followed by the similar extended previous blog posts.
When the blogger allows the last 10 posts on the 1st page it makes a long way to scroll down to reach the bottom of the page.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel!
The wonderful programmers of WordPress – and I bet those of other blogging software too – have thought about it and added an option to the format tags to reduce the posts on the homepage.
You will find it right in the first formatting line when running the blog entry in visual mode. Read the rest of this entry
Mrz20
Blogging via Schedule
Just a quick note on blogging schedules.
By end of February I decided to follow a blogging schedule. I even set up categories for different days – like today’s post is “TipTuesday”.
I have to recommend this for you.
My blogging-life is so much easier now following the schedule – I have many posts scheduled in advance.
And it is so much easier what to blog about.
I have my categories and I have a kind of blog-schedule to plan. (Click on link to get your free pdf).
You can use any good calendar too.
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