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How to increase traffic on your blog using Twitter?

Here is a small case study on how you can use Twitter as a social networking tool to “create” a new loyal public for your blog. Hello, my name is Twitter As an experiment, I started my own Twitter account about six months ago. Sure, I heard about Twitter, as a micro-blogging platform, limiting any [...]

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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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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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How to add videos on your blog?

It seems many people are still struggling on how to post a video on their blog. It is really simple, actually. If you have a video on your computer you would want to publish, the first thing you need to do is to upload it to a video sharing site. I use YouTube. Registration is [...]

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How to integrate a guestbook on your blog?

Featuring a guestbook guestbook on your site is an easy way to get feedback from your readers. One of the easiest, cleanest, best featured and well supported guestbooks I have found is Ultraguest. They also have a user forum and a problem reporting system. Important that the Ultraguest guestbook has an anti-spam filter.. And it [...]

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