Tips & instructions for beginning and intermediate bloggers.
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.
Melanie Nelson answers some of the most frequently asked questions by beginning bloggers. For example, what is a permalink? How do I make my own banner? Where can I find HTML resources for my blog? What sections should my blog have?
Blogging Basics 101 explains 5 of the most common mistakes beginning bloggers make. These mistakes are almost a right of passage, but why waste that time with mistakes you can easily avoid?
Have you ever wanted to provide your readers with the code for a button or logo from your blog or web site? Now you can with an HTML scroll box!
Blogging expert Melanie Nelson explains how to find, use, and optimize photos to emphasize meaning and add value for your blog’s audience.
Everywhere you turn you can find tips about how to build your blog, build your audience, build your social media presence, etc. What I want to talk about are the every day blog tips you can use to keep things humming along: Choose your link words carefully. Every time you include a link in your [...]
This post has been the most popular post at Blogging Basics 101 since I wrote it over a year ago. However, it’s also been the most confusing for my readers because it deals with HTML and how your blogging platform & web browsers read that HTML. So I’m tweaking this post and re-posting in the [...]
This is the eternal question. It’s frustrating to know that anyone and everyone can simply right-click to save your photos to their own computer for their own use. The short answer to the problem is nothing can prevent this action completely. Just about every work-around has a loophole. The good news, though, is that there [...]
I just returned from BlogHer 2008 in San Franciso. I appeared on a panel with four other women called FAQs for Beginning Bloggers. Our panel was flat-out amazing. We met fantastic bloggers and answered many beginner questions. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to answer everyone’s questions. I hope to talk to the BlogHer Three [...]
Lani from The Wooden Porch is guest blogging for me today and explaining how to put your own banner on a Blogger blog. Let’s give her a hearty welcome and leave lots of comments! Here’s a step-by-step guide with pictures to show you how easy it is to upload your own banner into your Blogger [...]
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