I'm talking about Zemanta! Its the neatest thing since blogging began. Once installed, it will show you a grid of 9 or more images that match the content you are writing about, so that you can drag and drop them into your post. It includes all the information that you need to protect the author's copyright info. AND it also suggests between 6 and 20 related articles across the internet, as well as LINKS. For example, while writing this post about Zemanta, it suggested the LINK - Zemanta, and the accompanying copyright image that you see here. All I did was click on them and they … [Read more...]
Sidebar Fix #1: the < p > tag
June 1, 2009
WordPress is a very user-friendly back-end to your blogs. The stuff that you enter - your text, images, videos, comments, go into WordPress's engines and they do their "thing" to publish it all classy-like. There are THREE areas of your blog that skip the WordPress engines. They take your text and publish it directly to the WEB. These are: text widgets HTML editor theme Editor So, if you use those three areas of your blog, you need to know a thing or two about HTML. Remember - whatever you put in those areas will go directly to the web - it will not get filtered and … [Read more...]
Day 14: Update a Key Page
April 20, 2009
Oh my goodness, this is a biggie. If you're like me, you have a list about a mile long of all the things you'd like to do on your front page, let alone the comments, and about pages. Not to mention the contact and subscribe buttons. This blog, and my other two should probably be the shining examples of blog layout and function, as that is what I do, however. Have you heard the tale of the shoemaker's children? Yeah. In a nutshell, they're the ones without shoes. Which lights a fire under me every once in a while, a rare once in a while, to make some necessary updates. Here's … [Read more...]
Day 13: Shopping and People Watching!!
April 20, 2009
Oh, these are MY kind of assignments! :) So, Day 14 of 31 DBBB at Problogger: Go to the mall and observe marketing trends, the ways the display, creativity, color are used. Perhaps do some people watching too. Okay, so I tried this. I spent an hour at the mall, but my ADD wouldn't let me observe what was going on... there are way too many sparkly and shiny things to drag me in. Apparently I'm a sucker for marketing and sales techniques. :) I sat down at the food court, and could only think of how I was going to avoid the Dairy Queen ice cream shop. Uggg. How did it work for … [Read more...]
