Tag Archive | "Blogger"
Saying Goodbye to Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect will soon be no more. It was one of the few Google social networking products that I actually liked, so I am sad to see it go. The demise is set for March 1, 2012. Google is calling the removal a “house cleaning,” but I see it more as a “redirect.” According [...]
Continue reading...How to Customize HTML Tags for Your Clickable Button
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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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, [...]
Continue reading...How to Make a Clickable Button For Your Blog – the Simple Way
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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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 [...]
Continue reading...How to Make a Sticky Post in Blogger
Friday, September 9, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...How To Add a Floating Facebook Twitter Google + Widget to Blogger
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Blogger Tut: How To Show Sidebar Content Only on Homepage
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...How To Tell If Your Blog Has Been Hacked
Friday, April 1, 2011
It’s a heart-stopping moment, when you get an email from one of your blog’s readers notifying you of “weird popups” or “redirects to other websites” when they visit your blog. Or, worse still, Google has emailed you informing you that they have blacklisted your blog and removed it from their search engines, due to a [...]
Continue reading...How to Add Google Friend Connect to Your WordPress Blog
Saturday, February 26, 2011
As much as many bloggers prefer the versatile WordPress as their blogging platform of choice, Google’s Blogger remains a very popular (and adequate) blogging platform, too. Unfortunately, Blogger hasn’t been exactly friendly toward other blogging platforms (WordPress users are routinely restricted from leaving comments with their WP url unless the blog’s owner “opts in” to [...]
Continue reading...How to Embed a Google Map in Your Website or Blog
Monday, January 17, 2011
I love Google maps. While I’m not a big fan of the company (too big for their britches), I love what they’ve done with geography. One of their best inventions yet is Google Maps. The kids and I love playing with Google Earth and Google maps. Ever see Google Earth on a big computer monitor [...]
Continue reading...Eight Terrific WordPress Plugins
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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Having tinkered with various blogging platforms, such as Blogger, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and others, I really like WordPress. The others certainly have their advantages, but I love WordPress because of plugins. Plugins have really made WordPress a terrific software suite. Not only is WordPress suitable for blogging, it is a superb content management software suite. [...]
Continue reading...How To Make Bloggers Blogs Respond Faster
Thursday, November 11, 2010
It’s terrific that Blogger has spruced up their blog designs, offering more choices and some much-needed flexibility and style for Blogger users. Unfortunately, Blogger blogs are notoriously slow to load and very slow to respond when scrolling down the page. Oh sure, the pages work relatively acceptably in the Internet Explorer browser, but who uses [...]
Continue reading...How to Enable Comments on Blogger Pages
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Blogger now affords bloggers the ability to incorporate “pages” into their blogs. Pages is a WordPress-type feature that lets you create static or “stand-alone” pages. You can link these special pages (such as your profile, resources, etc) from the home page of your blog. If you look at the header of this blog, you can [...]
Continue reading...How to Install a Favicon for a Blogger Blog
Friday, April 9, 2010
A “favicon,” or “favorite icon” is a very small, pixelated image used as a shortcut or website icon. Microsoft invented the favicon in 1999, with the browser Internet Explorer 4. The favicon was a tiny icon that helped identify favorites websites in the browser bookmarks. In the same way, you can make your blog memorable [...]
Continue reading...How to Embed a YouTube Video in Blogger
Monday, April 5, 2010
My dear blogger friend, Chuck from Secondary Roads, asked me a question: Would you consider a post on embedding YouTube videos in Blogger blogs? Thanks. Thankfully, embedding a video on Blogger is very easy. You need to do a few things to make it look *just right,* however. First, you need to find a video [...]
Continue reading...How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I’m very, very happy to announce that Blogger has enabled bloggers to back up their Blogger blogs! I’ve been with Blogger for over ten years, and I am very pleased that this feature has been implemented. In the past, bloggers had to sign up with WordPress.com and use that software to force an export from [...]
Continue reading...How to Hide the NavBar in Blogger
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Blogger NavBar is a long narrow bar at the top of Blogger blogs. It has its uses (you can sign in to your Blogger account very conveniently), but beyond that, it is wasted space. Blogger hasn’t changed it much in the 10+ years it’s been around…. the NavBar allows you to search for other [...]
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I'm Rebecca Mecomber. I have been a professional blogger and writer since 2006. I've written for or been interviewed by such media outlets as "TIME," The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, "iMedia Connection," NewYorkology.com, Manhattan User's Guide and Salon.com, covering topics such as Federal Trade Commission policy and media regulations, pro-blogging, home improvement, technology how-to, and New York travel.
I currently maintain more than a dozen blogs of various niches, including technology and computers, travel, politics, home renovation, parenting and gardening. You can check out my blogs on my About Page. Thanks for reading TheOlderGeek.com!
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