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How to Customize HTML Tags for Your Clickable Button
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 “Tweet” a Photo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
A friend asked me how to upload a photo, or “tweet” a photo. Twitter is a nifty social networking tool. With it, you can chat to friends, pass along private messages, and upload videos or photos for your pals to see. Twitter has made it very easy to include images and videos within your tweets. [...]
Continue reading...How To Take Good Photos For Your Blog
Sunday, June 19, 2011
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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 [...]
Continue reading...How to Batch Resize Photos With IrfanView
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gone on vacation and have 800 enormous photos from the trip? As much as you probably want all your online pals to see every single exciting photo of your trip, you really don’t want to edit every photo, one by one, so you can upload and then post them your blog or website. You can [...]
Continue reading...How to Prevent Hotlinking of Your Blog’s Images
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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Hotlinking is the word we use when one website owner “hotlinks,” or uses an image from another website directly from that website’s server. The Urban Dictionary defines a hotlink as: (n): A hyperlink to a media file (video, audio, Flash, image, etc.) on another site that bypasses any html pages that would identify the site [...]
Continue reading...How to Reduce Photos With Irfanview
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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Most digital cameras take photos in very large sizes. This can easily eat up your computer’s hard drive space over time, not to mention make it impossible to email or upload to a photo-sharing website. You can reduce these photos with a very handy little program called Irfanview. Irfanview is a terrific photo-editing program, able [...]
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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.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
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