The Older Geek

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 [...]

You may log on to your computer to see that your Windows sidebar calendar displays an orange block. What is up with that?! I had this problem on both my computers, a Windows 7 and a Vista machine. It’s a weird issue, but I isolated my problem to a bug with the latest Internet Explorer [...]

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 [...]