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How To Make Bloggers Blogs Respond Faster
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 Back Up Your Blogger Template
Friday, February 5, 2010
Blogger does not fare well with blog backups. Blogger is a very stable blogging software tool, to be sure, but I am a fiend when it comes to back ups, and Blogger doesn’t give the user any ability to back up your posts. However, you can back up your Blogger template. Your template is in [...]
Continue reading...How to Install a New WordPress Theme
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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If there is anything that stands out about a WordPress blog, it is the superior themes available to you. There are scads and scads of free and premium WordPress themes. I use a mixture of themes, both free and premium. Do not feel as though you need to spend a dime to get a good-looking [...]
Continue reading...Resources for Blogger Users
Saturday, January 16, 2010
There is absolutely no reason to use one of the ugly (and old) default Blogger templates when beautiful custom templates abound. Some are extremely stylish, and I’m seeing many with elaborate stylizing that mirrors the beauty of WordPress themes. Most Blogger templates are free, and there is a wide variety of templates to choose from. [...]
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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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