This cartoon is by Dave Walker.
I’ve just installed a new widget on this blog, provided by BlogRush. You can see it in the left sidebar.
When you sign up for BlogRush (it’s free) and submit your blog details, you are provided with code for the widget to put on your page. This will display headlines from the blogs of other members [...]
It is very easy to look at your blog and see that everything seems normal, but underneath the surface problems might be lurking. When was the last time you checked that everything actually works as it should?
To give an example, I have a number of older blogs that use Blogger.com. Yesyerday I was setting up [...]
Continue reading about The Importance of Checking Your Links
Why do people blog? People blog for many reasons. If you wish to be seen or heard on the Internet, the easiest way to achieve this is to start a blog.
You might simply want to publicise interesting sites that you find during your web surfing. You think they deserve a wider audience and want a way [...]
In the earlier parts of this series we learned what a blog is, then looked at starting your first blog. This time we will actually set up that first blog using Blogger.com.
Blogger, a part of Google, is a free hosted blogging service which lets you post and manage your weblog from within your web browser. It [...]
I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com.
It allows you to edit posts for your blogs while you are offline and publish them later.
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate [...]
From the Problogger, Darren Rowse - How to Add to Blogging Conversations And Eliminate the Echo Chamber. For it to be a conversation then each post should add some content to the dialogue.
From Techcrunch - Look Out MyBlogLog - Here Comes Explode. This could be interesting for social bookmarking.
The Technosailor tells us How to Enhance [...]
The other day I decided to upgrade two of my Wordpress blogs from version 2.04 and 2.05 to version 2.1, mainly because the provider of my webhosting servers was insisting. I went to the script library in cPanel and found the new version listed, along with the upgrade button. Nothing happened when I pressed it.
So, it [...]
When writing a post, if you use a term that might not be clear to some readers, make it a link to the appropriate Wikipedia entry.
For example, in a post intended for beginners, Your first blog, I used the term WYSIWYG to describe a feature of some editors. This term can be linked, as I have done, [...]
Continue reading about Quick Tip - Link titles make posts easier to understand
There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when choosing a platform for your first blog:
* Do I want a free blog, or do I want to pay for it
* Do I want it hosted on a blog platform, or do I want to host it on my own website with my own [...]
