The Older Geek

PollDaddy is one of the most popular (and fun!) web polling services on the Internet. Created by two blokes in Ireland, PollDaddy skyrocketed to stardom. Bloggers and online demographers love PollDaddy’s flexibility and nice look. I recently installed Polldaddy on one of my blogs and have been having great fun with it. What Would You [...]

Just recently, two pals of mine had their blogs hacked. Apparently, the hackers gained access through the website themes. The themes were either coded poorly or contained loopholes though which hackers could gain access. It’s a very vulnerable feeling to have your blog hacked. All your precious posts and comments can be wiped out in [...]

Several of you have mentioned either moving to your own self-hosted WordPress blogs or transferring your old Blogger blogs to a WordPress blog. Others of you have asked me how I make money online. I thought I would address both of these questions because they are related. One of the main ways I earn my [...]

A reader asked me how to create those very convenient sub menu categories in the popular WooThemes Fresh News theme for WordPress. It’s actually very easy. Short version: The sub menus are automatically created when you attach posts to them. BUT before you can create sub menus, you must create main menu selections on the [...]

In my previous post, How to Make a Clickable Button For Your Blog – the Simple Way, I showed you how to make a very, very basic clickable button with no bells and whistles. In this post, I’ll show you how to add some HTML tags to make the button do certain things. With tags, [...]

Those “grab my button” graphics are very cute. They are an attractive way to share your link with other bloggers. Here’s a good example of a blog button: That button directs to my friend’s blog. If you click the button, your browser will load Carole’s Thoughtful Spot blog. Unfortunately, some grab buttons are a little [...]

In a previous post, I discussed the concept behind the sticky post and how to create one for a Word press blog: The Sticky Post: What, Why, and How To for WordPress. In this article, I’ll show you two ways to create a sticky post for a Blogger blog, using the Post Options feature and [...]

A reader once asked me about the concept behind the “sticky post.” A sticky post is an article, forum thread, or blog post that remains at the top of the website even after it has been outdated by new and fresh content. Like a sticky note on top of your computer monitor or corkboard, a [...]

Those floating “share” buttons are very attractive and handy– I think they are more conspicuous than the “below signature” share buttons. Here’s what mine looks like. Here’s a very easy method for adding your very own floating share button for Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google +. Firstly, I’m assuming that you already know your way [...]

Usually, when you place information or a link or a graphic in your blog’s sidebar, the information appears sitewide; that is, it appears on the blog’s homepage AND on all the single pages and posts. This is a default feature of Blogger blogs. However, you can alter the HTML widget code to make the widget [...]

I came across a slight conundrum recently when an advertiser wanted to display an ad in my blog’s sidebar, but requested that the ad appear only on my homepage and not on single pages. Hm. I’m sure there’s some great, mystical method in the vast, geeky WordPress universe where you can insert text or an [...]

I remember the “old days” when Internet websites and blogs were *gasp* all text! This was before Flickr and Image Shack and Photobucket and Picasa took off. It took me a long time to adjust to all the graphics on blogs. It took a while for our computers to do, so, too. Remember waiting hours [...]