Archive for the ‘Using Media’ Category

I encourage twittering!  It’s fun, and its good marketing for your blog!  Sign up at Twitter.com.  Fo’sure your first order of business will be to follow me!  @multimom, and then ya know, if there’s time, there’s Heather too:  @relocatedyank. 

You might even be able to ask questions there, since ya know, we do it! (unlike the posting around here!)  Sorry ’bout the posting bit… I got a little carried away.  But no worries.  I’m carried right back. 

1.  Sign up for twitter

2.  Upload this great plugin:  Twitter Tools, and then you can put your tweets in the sidebar of your blog.

3.  For Firefox, use TwitterFox addon to add or read tweets from the status bar of your browser.  (If you use Internet Explorer, you really should take my advice and go here.)

4.  Then go find a pretty icon like these: Twitter Icons, and upload it to Photobucket.

5.  To put in your sidebar, copy and paste this code to a Text Widget (Found under “Appearance” in the 2.7 version):

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/multimom"><img src=
"insert photobucket url here - begins with http://
and ends with .jpg" alt="" style="padding:5px;
border:none;" /></a>

Replace the red text with your twitter name, and the green text with the direct link of that twitter image you put in photobucket.  If you want your image to line up next to another item, insert this

float:left;

in the style quotation marks (in blue).

Any problems?  Leave a comment and I’ll answer them.  Happy tweeting!

We’re all bloggers here, right?  How much do you LOVE comments?  Last week, Heather let me know that my print links weren’t working on my Strawberries site.  So I went directlyovertoherblog and let her know everythingthatwasbroken there too.

No, I kid.  I really had no idea that the links for printing my recipes weren’t working!  That is important stuff if you’re a food blogger!  So while you’re reviewing your year, maybe take a look at these:

*  use the broken link checker plugin to – you guessed it- check for broken links.

* random links and images through the archives

*  and keep all your plugins updated

Note:  On Lester Chan’s plugins (wp-email, wp-print, wp-poll, etc) some upgrades weren’t automatic.  So if you have those – go to his site and download the latest!

And be sure to leave feedback for the site administrator when you find something broken.  We really appreciate it!