The Hello Bar is a simple notification bar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

Do you know how I can change a bullet style in the Scribe template on Blogger?

As always when working with your template and HTML, I strongly suggest you back up your template before you make any changes. The Scribe template in Blogger uses many graphics as part of its design: the sidebar headers are graphics, as well as the bullets that look like daisies. You can find instructions on changing [...]

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?

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 We Communicate: FAQs for Beginning Bloggers

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 [...]

Basic Blog Design Principles

Today’s Guest Blogger is Karla, who blogs at Looking Towards Heaven, where you can find her writing about the chaos and joy of life with four children. She can also be found at Fruition Designs, where she designs mommy cards, blogs and announcements, and at Blissfully Domestic, where she is the managing editor. We all [...]

Helpful Blogging Links

Three Simple Secrets to Reducing Your Blogging Stress via Daily Blog Tips. Three Simple Steps to Driving Your Audience to Action via copyblogger. 101 PhotoShop Tips in Five Minutes via deke. Nine Free Tools to Monitor Your Online Presence via BlogWell. Blogger’s New Features in Detail via Blogging Tips.

On my Blogger blog I have a links section on my blog that is growing too large. Can you recommend a good drop down menu code generator?

If you just want to make your archives into a drop-down menu, that’s pretty easy in Blogger. To make your Blogger archives into a drop-down menu, these are the basic steps: Go to Layout. Click Edit on the Blog Archive page element. A Configure Blog Archive window will pop up. Beside Style choose Dropdown Menu. [...]

How can I make a video/text/picture be centered in my blog post?

Today’s tip comes from Kathy at The Junk Drawer Blog. To center video, text, pictures, etc.: Go to the Edit HTML tab. Find the item you’d like to center. Type the following code before the item: <div align=”center”> Type the following code after the item: </div> Go to the Compose/WYSIWYG tab and check to see [...]

Is there a fee involved with changing my design? My husband designed a new look for me with Photoshop that I’d like to use.

No, there should never be a fee associated with changing your design (unless you’re paying someone to design and install it for you). Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, etc. do not charge you to change your design. In order to use the layout your husband designed in Photoshop, you will have to have each component (i.e., header, [...]

You have links to kirtsy, Digg, Del.icio.us, etc. at the bottom of every post. How can I get that on my blog? *UPDATED*

The footer I have at the bottom of the posts here at Blogging Basics 101 is from Feedburner.com. Feedburner is the service I use to distribute my RSS Feeds. It has an option called FeedFlare that allows a blog owner to easily provide links to popular social media outlets (e.g., kirtsy, Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, etc.) [...]

Is there any free software I can use to make my own graphics, buttons, and banner?

What would the web be without freebies? If you are just starting to make your own buttons and banners and buying graphics software is too spendy, you can definitely find some free options to get you started. (I’m going to point you to places where you can download free software; however, please understand that I [...]

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