Technically Easy

Category: Websites and Blogging

This category will contain any blogging-related posts, that includes platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.

  • Creating Clickable Web Site Header Images

    I like to write posts that can help others complete a task, whether it is with computers, web sites/blogs, networking, or digital photos. Some times, I come across questions that get asked on a frequent basis. While the questions may seem to be simple to answer for some, I also realize that many people don’t have the technical knowledge others may have acquired through the years.

    This post is going to talk about creating header images for a web site or blog, and how to make them link back to a home page. If you are new to HTML, creating such an image is very easy to do.

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  • Photo and Image Editors

    As I visit web sites one thing that always get my attention is the amount of time it takes to complete a page download. With web sites using more images to display the content, it can at times take much longer than necessary to finish downloading a page.

    The biggest problem with the sites that do use a lot of images on each page is the size of the images. Some who manage web sites don’t realize that images need to be resized outside of the browser to decrease the download size. Specifying the size of an image in the HTML code will only shrink the displaying of the image, not the actual size. To shrink the file sizes you will need an image editor. In this post I will list a few image editors that can be used to edit your images for your web site.

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  • Changing Your Blog Posts’ Permalinks

    When I visit a blog that has been created by a new blogger, I immediately notice that the permalinks to their blog posts haven’t been changed. By default, WordPress uses a confusing permalink structure for each post, which most new bloggers don’t realize.

    It is important for those setting up a blog to ensure they have modified the permalinks of their posts from their default value. It isn’t hard to change the structure, and can be done even after you have published several posts.

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  • Increase Your Web Site Speed With .htaccess

    Web site and blog owners are usually trying to increase the speed of their sites. Visitors won’t wait for a web site that loads in 30 seconds, so making a site load very fast is crucial.

    With many sites containing many additional files that are downloaded, such as Javascript, CSS, images, and flash, web sites can take quite a bit of time to finish downloading. In this post I will show how you can change your .htaccess file to increase the speed of your web site very easily.

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  • How To Display Post Excerpts in Blogger

    How To Display Post Excerpts in Blogger

    Update:

    On September 9, 2009 Blogger introduced “Jump Links” that incorporates the <-- more --> tag, much like WordPress. This allows Blogger users to display posts excerpts easily in their blog. For more information, please read the help article on creating Creating ‘After the jump’ summaries.

    Many blogs may display only a few paragraphs of a post, and then provide a link to the rest of the post. These blogs usually publish rather large posts, and would like to display several posts on they home page, without the page getting too large.

    WordPress has a tag that you can insert to create a post excerpt, but Blogger doesn’t have such a feature. In this post I will explain a work around you can use to create post excerpts in Blogger.

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  • How To Easily Display a Blogroll on Blogger

    How To Easily Display a Blogroll on Blogger

    It has been a while since I have written a post about Blogger. While I have since switched to WordPress, I still think Blogger is a good platform for those just starting out in blogs.

    Many people like to create and display a list of blogs on their blog called a blogroll. The list is usually comprised of blogs that the author enjoys reading. Blogger includes a gadget that you can use that will display more than just a blog’s title. I will explore this gadget in this post.

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  • What is Your Web Site’s Copyright?

    I am active on the Website Babble forums where I occasionally attempt to provide assistance to web site and blog owners. One question that is continuously raised is that of copyright. If you were to publish your own content on a web site or blog, what is the copyright of that content?

    One fear of a web site or blog owner is someone copying their work and publishing it on another site. In this post I will talk about the copyright of your own work as well as talk about what you do to stop it.

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  • Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

    Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

    This post is the fourth and final post in my series about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I have discussed installing WordPress locally, domain names and hosts, and plugins and themes.

    In this post I will finish off with moving your blog to WordPress, pointing the two domain names to your WordPress blog, and then preventing Google from thinking your two domains contain duplicate content.

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