Archive for the ‘Blog Tips’ Category

remove black background

If you are like me , old and a little vision impaired , it s hard to read some blogs where people have a dark background and some funky colored text. While browsing the blogoshere I came across this tip that changes the background and text colors to black on white with one click [...]

October 17, 2008   Posted in: Blog Tips  One Comment

blogging tip #12

On some blogs I see text jammed up against a photo and this post will show how to add white space between text and photo.
no space:
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June 9, 2008   Posted in: Blog Tips  Comments Closed

text size in Firefox

Sparrow was commenting about the text size in her new install of Firefox.
To over come this problem is done by holding down the “Ctrl” key and then pressing the plus sign “+” which enlarges the text, to make text smaller use the “-” (minus) key.
A faster and easier way is to go here for [...]

April 16, 2008   Posted in: Blog Tips  One Comment

energizer bunny traffic

want to have a post that draws visitors from search engines?…
well this one has been sending me people for over 3 years…
stats show 53 hits to this link as of 9:15 tonight…
this one also brings in visitors from the 1st of the year till mardi gras…

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March 27, 2008   Posted in: Blog Tips  Comments Closed

zip a de do dah

If you think that the web is slow sometimes then check how fast you can go by clicking on the “Speakeasy” Speed Test link at the bottom of the right column.
When I ran these tests the other day I thought the net looked like IH 45 going north from Houston during Hurricane Rita and was [...]

January 9, 2007   Posted in: Blog Tips  Comments Closed

finally

While cruising along the internet highway in search of a little motivation to improve my blogging technique I believe I have found the answer, to wit these quotes:
1st:
And, by the way, I’ve been drinking tonight so you’ll forigve me if I’m rambling. Which I am. I tend to do that when I drink. Maybe if [...]

December 17, 2006   Posted in: Blog Tips  One Comment