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HTML

How do I format recipes on my blog?

April 6, 2010

Reader Question: I have trouble with formatting recipes and getting the columns lined up. I usually do several lines of ingredients and amounts and hit return.  Then I will highlight the ingredients and amounts and click on the bullet feature and then un-do it.  Then is when the ingredients come together, but they are not [...]

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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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Helpful Blogging Links: Blissdom Recaps, Women in Public Speaking, Create a Sliding Button

February 19, 2010

photo credit: mrhayata Every day I share links to all the tech articles I love on the Blogging Basics 101 Tumblr blog! Subscribe to the Tumblr blog and never miss another article. Crafty Love by Arianne at To Think Is To Create. Arianne was part of a panel on writing well. She (along with Megan [...]

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Blogging Tutorial Links: HTML, CSS, WordPress

October 14, 2009

I have been a collector my entire life. I think I come by it naturally since my mother’s side of the family tends to “collect” things in the form of never throwing anything away on the off chance it might be valuable or hold the key to the family’s history. From reality television, I now [...]

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FAQs from Beginning Bloggers

August 5, 2009

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?

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Beginning Blogger Checklist: 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a New Blog

June 8, 2009
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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?

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How can I make a scroll box for HTML code?

May 28, 2009

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!

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Choosing Movable Type as Your Blogging Platform

March 2, 2009

Movable Type is the self-hosted blog platform offered by SixApart (also owner of Typepad). Ostensibly, Movable Type is the equivalent of WordPress.org. Put simply: Both are non-hosted blogging platforms that allow you to tweak your own code. Movable Type, at one point several years ago, was set to be a “potential successor to the kingdom [...]

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How do you make a scroll box for HTML code? *Updated*

February 13, 2009

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 [...]

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How can I link to a particular place in a post?

November 12, 2008

Linking to a particular place in a post or page requires you to do some simple HTML. The links you are making are called anchor links. They are particularly handy for long posts or posts with long lists. Using anchor links you can create a sort of table of contents or list of items that [...]

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