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Jul | 20 | 2007

Three Blogging Gadgets

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools If you were to get electronic devices for blogging, get three basic types of gadgets: A Laptop A Digital Camera A Internet capable cell Phone Optionally, get a bluetooth connector to hook up your laptop and cellphone. Personally, I use these: A Compaq Presario B1957TU - This small yet powerful laptop comes at only 1.79kg. It has Windows Vista Basic and is a Core Duo. I honestly would've preferred a Sony Vaio but that was way beyond my budget. Don't get too small a laptop (they keyboard would be too small). A Simple Canon PowerShot 3.2 Megapixel camera - a simple ...

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Jul | 07 | 2007

Cheats To Get More Blog Subscribers

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorial, Promotion, Syndication Blog visitors who love your website might want to receive regular updates. Might as well put an RSS subscription system. Luckily, most blogs (like Wordpress) already have this built-in. You could also sign up to a feeds manager like feedburner for this and display a feeds stats counter. Your feed stats counter shows the live subscribers who bookmarked the website or visited it through feed today. This is your regular visitors counter. It's a great marketing tactic especially when you've got more than 100 subscribers already. Here are three tips to get more Blog subscribers (or at least appear to ...

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Jul | 06 | 2007

When Your Wordpress Theme Keeps Reverting To Default

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorials News You have a nice Wordpress blog set up. You changed its theme to one of your favorites. After a few days, it suddenly returned to its default theme. "What the?..." You thought "Must be a glitch." So you set up the theme again back to your favorite one. After another day, it happens again. The wordpress blog reverts to the default theme. You realize something is really wrong. Well, you're not alone. Apparently, a number of other wordpress users have experienced the same thing. The root cause is that Wordpress reverts to default in certain cases where it cannot ...

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Jun | 16 | 2007

25% Of Your Visitors Use FireFox And More…

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets Benj talked about Perception manipulation and statistics. He briefly talks about how numbers can affect visitors on your site. This brings us to something important for your blog - analytics. This involves the the data collected on your website - about your visitors and how they interact with your web pages. Why is this important? Through analytics tracking, you can determine what browsers visitors are using, what's their screen resolution, and what operating system they use. You can also determine from what country they came from. For Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes, you can find out what 'keywords' ...

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Jun | 16 | 2007

Can Blogging Make You Smarter?

Posted by Brix as Opinion, Writing Experts say we write for two main reasons: 1. First, and most obvious, we write to communicate with others. 2. We write for ourselves, to clarify and stimulate our thinking. Most of our writing, even if we are published authors, is for ourselves. It is often difficult for us to hold more than one thought in mind at a time. Writing our ideas down makes the vague and abstract become clear and concrete. When our thoughts are on paper, we see relationships and are able to analyze ideas better. Writing, it seems, makes us smarter. This is about WRITING in general. It does not ...

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Jun | 09 | 2007

Where To Get More Blog Topic Ideas

Posted by Brix as Tips, Writing In a rut? Don't know what to blog about? Consider looking for ideas on what to write in your blog from the following sources: 1. Digg and Other Social Bookmarking sites provide updated content from other websites that's worth talking about. In Digg, users contribute content that link back to the source website. The community then votes for the relevance or newsworthiness of it. The more votes it gets, the greater the chance of being seen on the front page. What you can do is look at what other people have posted, link on it on your blog, ...

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Jun | 06 | 2007

More Opportunities To Earn Adsense Income With Link Units

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorials News, Monetization The Inside AdSense group announced on their blog some important policy updates today: now you can place up to three link units on a page. As we've noted in the past, link units are a great way to provide relevant, user-friendly ads in hard-to-fit locations on your site. With the new opportunity to place three link units -- and the plethora of link unit formats -- we hope you'll find great ways of incorporating this unique ad format on your site. Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support This is a good news for bloggers. Ad link units ...

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May | 31 | 2007

Five Steps To Quickly Change Your Blog’s CSS Design

Posted by Brix as Design, Design and Themes Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an HTML standard that Web site developers use to control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. If you are already familiar with CSS, here's a way to quickly make test changes on your blog's design: 1. Download and install the Mozilla Browser. 2. Download in install the Firebug plugin. This plugin will allow you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. 3. Open your blog in Mozilla. Click ...

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May | 31 | 2007

Four Steps To Get More Traffic To Your Website Using MyBlogLog

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Tips You are probably familiar with MyBlogLog. This is a social networking site which allows you sign up and add a widget to blog so you can see your visitor’s avatars. I have used it on my blogs to see visitors coming to my web pages. Here's how it works... When you sign up in MyBLogLog, a small cookie is saved in your personal computer. A cookie is a text file containing information and is accesible by browsers. When you go to various sites that have mybloglog widget, the browser accessing the cookie and your picture will show up on the ...

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May | 30 | 2007

What To Blog About

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorial, Writing Now that you have a blog, what do you write about? You should have actually thought about that before you created your blog! Just kidding. Let's assume, however, for the purposes of this article, that you just wanted to get into blogging without putting real thought on it You went to blogger.com, wordpress.com or whatever free blogging software is available. You signed up and now have a blog platform ready and waiting for you. You open the "write" tab, stare at the computer screen, and think of what to write about. Let's talk about purpose. WHY did you start a blog in the ...

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