Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.
If you, like me, upgraded to New Blogger and realised you attached the wrong Gmail account to your Blogger account, don’t worry. Here’s a solution.
1. Create a new Blogger account with your preferred Gmail account and give it the same profile name as your original one.
2. Go to Settings -> Permissions.
3. Add your preferred Gmail [...]
Currently I have installed 4 programs on my laptop which is on Windows Vista Business, with one program running for each of the 4 blogs I have (to test them and to ensure there’s some redundancy in case there’s a bug in one of them, plus I like testing new programs).
CONTROLS:
Expectation: Programs should back up [...]
With every move, invariably one thinks of (or rather remembers to) backing up one’s blog. I have been tardy in this respect but now I set my mind to backing up all the years of blogging to my rather trusty Lenovo v100 laptop.
Unfortunately, HTTrack, which I’d used successfully before, does not like Vista. It starts [...]
In Wordpress, you’ll need to find an alternative to the usual hspace and vspace tags.
Here’s a great suggestion from the Wordpress Codex. In the stylesheet, paste this:
img.left { padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0; display: inline; }
And in your markup code in whichever file you’re editing, e.g. About, in my case, code it like [...]
I must compliment the developers of Wordpress for a logical and immensely intuitive user interface addition.
I have consulted no manuals or codexes. Just good old-fashioned tinkering around with, like how people in the 1950s loved to tinker with their cars.
Understanding the compulsion of people to test theme after theme, they have made it possible for [...]
Aside from your branding, your design (and in this case for Wordpress, theme) is the most important part of your blog.
Your brand, and I may cite John Chow, who successfully marketed himself as a “dot com mogul” alluding to wealth and prosperity, is the most important thing about your blog. That makes people come back. [...]
I have to confess. Shen convinced me to move. I’d been enjoying free hosting from Blogdrive and Atspace for many years now and have been happy with those services. But, Shen said, for better control and SEO it was better to have my own hosting and run my blog off my own domain.
The clincher, was [...]
A very useful plugin for anyone who needs to count the number of words (and characters) in a textarea.
Go check out the Text Area Word Counter by Gina Trapani.
(Source: Blogger for Dollars)
1. Create your desired image 16×16px in an image editor and save it as a gif, jpg, png, or ico file, depending on which version your web host or blog provider supports. (Wordpress uses favicon.ico).
2. Upload it into your root folder.
3. Insert this code between your <head></head> tags.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
In [...]
