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Nonprofit blogs: the common problems

777,  Seven hundred seventy-seven.
That is the amount of nonprofit blogs I have collected so far. They are all on my Delicious bookmarking list. Excerpts from their posts are republished on Humanitarian News and The NonProfit Blogs.
777, discarding blogs which have not been updated since six months.  777, including the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. [...]

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Blogger now features a true preview

For years, bloggers cursed the lack of a real preview function in Blogger, one of the most popular blog platforms.
After you wrote a blogpost, the ‘old’ preview button used to bring up a pop-up screen which gave a ‘kinda’ preview of your post, which did not take into account most styling options you had in [...]

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Blogger now features a template designer

Last night, Blogger announced their online template designer.

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Automatic mobile themes for your blogs

More and more people browse blogs from their mobile devices. While you can view any website from your iPhone or Blackberry, the pages will appear with a very small font, and the whole thing will look very cramped, unless if the website supports a mobile theme. Only then, the site will appear suitable for easy [...]

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Browser size revisited

In a previous post, we looked at the optimum “blog real estate”: the surface of your blog which is visible on a visitor’s browser window. I mentioned that, according to the statistics from 350,000 visitors my main blog, 91% was using a monitor width of 1,024 pixels or more. Based on that, I suggested you [...]

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Using your blog real estate effectively

When you buy a piece of land, you have only a limited space to build the house of your dreams. When you design a blog, you have only a limited space to convey information. We call it “the blog real estate”.
The most precious real estate is the top of your homepage, the part a visitor [...]

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Analyzing 200 nonprofit blogs

I took advantage of the long weekend here in Rome to do a major redesign of the back end engines in my network of blogs and social media tools.
Over the past two years, I have collected over 300 sites which cover aid and humanitarian issues, development and philanthropy, advocacy and “social media for a cause”. [...]

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Changing a Blogger template

If you are a serious blogger, you will not only write blog posts, but also tweak your blog layout. You will add widgets, fine-tune the layout, add navigation features, icons etc…
This takes up a significant amount of time and effort. As an example of “The Life of a Blog Master”, take a look at change [...]

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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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