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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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