Please welcome today’s guest blogger, Melissa from Momcomm as she shares tips on critiquing your own blog. I’ve gotten to know Melissa over the past year or so because of Facebook group we belong to. She is a wealth of marketing information and she rocks socks at making blogs better. Today she’s sharing some tips [...]
Keep Your Blog from Being Hacked
July 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Today’s article is a guest post by Sarah Kimmel who blogs at Technology for Moms and Organized Mom. You can follow her on Twitter at @Tech4Moms. There is nothing like losing your sense of security. Feeling violated and vulnerable are two horrible feelings, but that’s exactly how you will feel if you find your blog [...]
Learning HTML Can Help You Take Control of Your Blog
March 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you’re blogging and you don’t know even a little bit of HTML, you’re doing yourself a disservice. HTML tells a web browser how to display text elements on your web page. Learning and using HTML is fairly intuitive; I think you’ll find it very easy to learn. Knowing how to use HTML on your [...]
Blogging & Taxes: What You Need to Know
December 28, 2009 By 6 Comments
Blogging in 2004 was significantly different from blogging in 2009. Over the past five years we’ve seen an explosion in how people use social media and how we make money from it. In 2004, it was hard to find a professional blogger; blogging was still very much a community-based hobby. These days, it’s unlikely to [...]
How do I write an About Me page?
August 3, 2009 By 20 Comments
Having spent several hours reviewing blogs in several markets, I’ve come to a conclusion: We all need to work on our About pages. In this article I’ll tell you what to include and how to make it interesting.
I have many awards that are on my sidebar and I wanted to create a separate page on my blog for them. Can you tell me how to do that?
August 26, 2008 By 6 Comments
Moving these awards and graphics off your sidebar is a good idea–it will help declutter your design! (Pay no attention to my own sidebars; do as I say, not as I do!) TypePadTypePad offers a feature that allows you to make a page instead of a blog post. Pages are great for things like blogrolls, [...]
How do I back up my blog template?
August 11, 2008 By 2 Comments
It’s especially important to back up your template before you export your content or make changes to your design because once you make a change and save it, there’s no going back (unless you know exactly what you did and can undo it). Blogger Log in to your account and click Layout. On the Template [...]
Helpful Blogging Links: June 26, 2009
This week’s Helpful Blogging Links roundup includes information on how to find out who Stumbled your article, why designers need to learn coding basics, and a reminder on how to make sure a blogger can respond to your comments!