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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You can learn a lot from a website’s page source data. Let’s say they have a very cool plugin and you want to know what it is! Check the page source data. Let’s say you want to know what blog theme they are using, or their website has a phenomenal photo or template color that [...]

Did you ever see a “dotcom” commercial that ran in the 90s? It showed a bunch of young people in their shop lamenting lack of sales for their hip new product. One of the young men had an idea– create a website and an online shop for the product. Next day, they check their orders [...]

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 [...]

I love WooThemes – Premium WordPress Templates. My favorite theme of all is Fresh News by WooThemes. I use the theme for several of my blogs, and it looks spectacular on them all. This is my Woo Themes theme on one of my other blogs, FreakyFrugalite.com. It’s easy to customize the Fresh News header, called [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]