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Blog Maintenance

Learning HTML Can Help You Take Control of Your Blog

March 24, 2010

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 [...]

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Blogging & Taxes: What You Need to Know

December 28, 2009

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 [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links: October 9, 2009

October 9, 2009

[How To] Check the Validity of Your Links for Free via Technofriends 8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images via SixRevisions How to Build a Successful Email Newsletter via ProBlogger HOW TO: Take Advantage of FriendFeed’s Unique Features via Mashable The Importance of Following Directions When Applying for a Blogging Job via Blog World Expo [...]

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How do I optimize my images for the web?

August 10, 2009

Using images in your blog posts is aesthetically pleasing and can help make your point even clearer. Melanie Nelson explains how to optimize your images for the web so your blog loads faster.

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How do I write an About Me page?

August 3, 2009

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.

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Helpful Blogging Links: June 26, 2009

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!

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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

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, [...]

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How do I back up my blog template?

August 11, 2008

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 [...]

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My real name is showing up on Bloglines from my TypePad account. Any idea where I change that?

February 26, 2008

Many bloggers like to maintain their anonymity. Part of this is not inadvertently telling people your real name because you didn’t know what options you have in your Author Profile. TypePad Go to Control Panel > Profile > Author Profile. Type in the appropriate name in the Nickname field. If you leave the Nickname field [...]

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How do I back up my template?

January 31, 2008

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 [...]

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