Blogging Tutorial Links: HTML, CSS, WordPress

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 [...]

Tools to Take Your Facebook Profile from Fine to Phenomenal

Expert blogger Melanie Nelson introduces tools to take your Facebook profile from fine to phenomenal. Use the Facebook Toolbar, customize your profile, promote your blog, and use a vanity URL to set your Facebook profile apart from the others.

How can I make a scroll box for HTML code?

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!

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 [...]

What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It’s a simple programming language that tells your internet browser how to read your text and display it. For example, if you’d like to make something bold and you are coding your HTML by hand you would type <strong>make this bold</strong> and you would see make this bold in [...]

Helpful Blogging Links

5 Blogging Goals Worth Chasing After via Daily Blog Tips. Create Extra Columns in Your Blogger Layout–Magazine Style! via Blogger Buster. Cheat Sheets for Front-End Web Developers via Six Revisions. Effective Use of Blog Sidebars via Vandelay Design. Finding and Adding Creative Commons Images to Your Blog Posts via Edublogger.

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 [...]