Oct | 16 | 2007

Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?

Posted by Guru as Design, Design Features Last night I checked my personal blog's code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn't surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors - 851 Errors to be exact. Of course it was still a bit disappointing but as I said, it wasn't a big surprise. Since I do not employ any web designer after all and Blogger offers a really easy to use and free service than ...

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Oct | 05 | 2007

Alt-Tags: For Spiders and the Visually Impaired

Posted by Guru as Images, Marketing and Search Optimization, Design Features, SEO Features Lots of people underestimate the importance of Alt-Tags. Even though SEO experts time and again stress the importance of Alt-Tags many still do not bother with it at all, or if they use it, do not consistently do so. To be honest, I belong to the inconsistent group. Alt-tags ARE very important. SEO-wise the absence of alt-tags will ensure that your images and other embedded media will NOT be indexed by spiders since they will be unable to determine the actual content of each embedded element. Being a parent of a child with special needs though, I am very sensitive about ...

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Jul | 17 | 2007

Tweaking your blog’s HTML? Avoid these horrible tags!

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Opinion, Design, Design Features If you've been blogging for sometime now, you would have tinkered with HTML several times of already. In fact I've shown how you can use several HTML tags to make your posts more readable. The bad news is, HTML has a dark side: it has tags and attributes that are not very useful or meaningful (i.e., deprecated) but can still be used by the ignorant, especially since HTML is very easy to learn. But if it is not learned correctly, your blog might load more slowly or not work at all in other people's browsers. Warning: Do NOT try these at home!

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Jun | 27 | 2007

A few reminders on third-party Image Hosting

Posted by Jeff as Images, Tips, Blogging Tools, Design Features If you have a blog that's hosted in Wordpress.com, or Blogspot, or any other free* service, or if you have unlimited resources, that is, truckloads of money to pay for all that uncapped web space, you may be least likely concerned about the gigabytes that images can easily consume from what you have arranged with your webhost of choice. The rest of us common men with an inkling of what saving both gigabytes of allocation and the bandwidth needed to pump out all those images may consider hosting these on a separate service, or outsourcing to a third-party image hosting ...

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May | 22 | 2007

Lowdown on the technical aspects of design

Posted by Jeff as Tips, Design, Featured Articles, Design Features Clearly, I'm asking for trouble here by laying down a list of what is regarded as good design. Hopefully though, this does not turn out like O'Reilly's Bloggers' Code of Conduct which he later took back: Proper use of fonts - as a general rule, no more than three font families are to be used on a single page. Too similar fonts make for a staid feel, while over-using fonts is gaudy. (This one I remember from my elementary Journalism class) Font families - unlike in print media, the use of serifs (Garamond, Times New Roman, Cambria) and sans-serifs (Arial, Tahoma, Calibri) are ...

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May | 12 | 2007

Maximizing Stock Photography

Posted by Benj as Images, Tips, Design Features Hi everyone, I'm Benj, one of your new writers for BlogTutorials. Even with the preponderance of technology to allow bloggers to take and modify their own photos, there are still individuals (*clears throat*) who are still not well-versed in the subtle art of photography. It's a good thing that now, people who weren't born with a feel for the lens have alternatives as sources of embellishment for their blog posts.

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