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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

How to Upload Your Own Header in Blogger

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 [...]

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 [...]

How do I put a line through words in a blog post?

In both Blogger and Typepad, when you compose or edit a post you have the choice of doing it as WYSIWYG or HTML. WYSIWYG simply acts like a word processor and is usually under the tab called “Compose Post”. The “Edit HTML” tab is where you would write your post if you wanted to manually [...]

I want to make my own banner/button. Where do I start?

This is a very popular question. To answer it, I’m going to point you in several different directions because there are a few things you need to consider and remember as you make your banners and buttons. First, please don’t forget that you should not use someone else’s artwork without their express permission. There are [...]

On several blogs, I see a box under the blog’s button with the HTML code for people to add the button to their own blogs. How do you make that box with the code for people?

In my post about how to put a button on your sidebar and link it to another site, you can see how providing the specific HTML code for a button is helpful. It might look like this: <a href="http://www.bloggingbasics101.com"><img src="http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/BB101button2.jpg"></a> All your readers have to do is copy and paste the HTML into their own [...]

How do I add a link to an Amazon book in a blog post?

You’ll be pleased to know this is a fairly simple operation. We have covered how to make words into a clickable link already. Go to Amazon.com and find the item you want to link to. Highlight the URL of the page you want to link to and copy it. Follow the directions for making words [...]

How can I get rid of the navbar on my Blogger blog?

Thank you to GiBee at Kisses of Sunshine. She brings you the answer you so desperately crave (with a bit of editing from me per her request). The Blogger navbar (short for navigation bar) is the horizontal bar that appears automatically at the top of every Blogger blog. This navbar allows users to search, flag [...]