From the monthly archives:

May 2009

10 Free blogging tools I use daily

There is a mass of interesting tools available for the serious and less serious blogger. Here are 10 free tools I use almost daily for my blog. 1. Picasa

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How to check the colours on your blog: Colorpic

I had a lot of trouble matching colours of frames, backgrounds, fonts, widgets,… with each other. I could only find matching colours after hours of trying the different colour hex codes… Until I found this free tool: Colorpic.

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How to measure widths and heights your blog: Pixel Ruler

On a blog, like on any web page, everything is measured in ‘pixels’, the smallest unit of measure on a screen. So if you are the geek tweaking the layout of your blog or just a beginner playing with the size of images, you need to have a precise idea of the pixel height and [...]

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How to change the Favicon on your blog

A favicon is the web nerd’s name for the small icon shown next to URL in your browser’s address bar, tabs or bookmarks. Favicons are a way to customize your blog, and make it stand out from ‘the next one’, called it “branding of your blog”. Interested? There are three steps to take to change [...]

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How to display special characters on your blog

You probably had instances where you need to display a piece of HTML code ‘as is’ on your blog, or where you need to use special characters like ‘< ' or '>‘ etc.. Internet browsers easily get confused and often interpret these special characters as HTML code, resulting in goobledegoock displayed on the screen.

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Browser Compatibility: What you see is not what you might get

When I started my first blog, I was naive. I thought I knew. I believed in technology. I thought the way I saw my blog was how everyone saw it. A bit like when I was a kid. Then I thought when I would keep my hands over my eyes, nobody else in the world [...]

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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What is RSS and what can you do with it?

There are a number of ways you can subscribe to, or get automatic updates from any site. Mostly people use our RSS feed. What is it, and what can it do for you, as a reader or as a blogger? 1. What is RSS? RSS or “Really Simple Syndication” is a technology used by millions [...]

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How to display text in a box with a scroll bar?

HTML is really much easier than it looks. Ok, let me re-state that: when publishing a blog, the groundwork is already done for us, we are left to play with the goodies: fiddling around with the text and images. And fiddling we do! Someone asked me how to put a text within a scroll bar. [...]

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