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Every now and again I get asked a very important question by some of my readers regarding the pictures and images I have on my blog. They are wanting to know exactly how I format my pictures to be clear and colorful without taking up a ton of storage ... |
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Hopefully, you've read my previous posts in the Build a Faster Blog Series which detailed some excellent resources with which to discover the real health of your blog and how fast it is performing for your readers. You may or may not be pleased with w... |
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| The point of this post is to provide a step-by-step guide to creating a partial RSS feed WITH pictures using both Wordpress and Feedburner. Now at this point, you may be wanting to get into the age-old debate of which version to serve your readers: a fu... |
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I wanted to write this post tonight because it is a question that I get from a lot of my readers and it is a great tool for any blogger to use. This is a very convenient way to squeeze as much content onto your site without having a blog that continue... |
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If you've read my previous posts, Top 10 Websites for Testing Your Blog's Speed and Top 13 Things to Scrap from Your Blog IMMEDIATELY, you'll know that images can be one of the biggest speed traps for your blog. Of course, every blog needs to utilize ... |
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As promised in an earlier tip, I wanted to write a post dedicated to creating tables in your blog. You would be surprised at how much I use this valuable tool to get things to look just right and maximize my space on sidebars, footers and even in post... |
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Thanks to Leslie at Leslie Loves Veggies, I have found out about a wonderful (and addicting) new social network called Triberr. Triberr is a way to band together via Twitter and maximize your exposure by agreeing to tweet out a few of your fellow trib... |
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Have a hard time understanding Google PageRank scores? Yeah, me too! Well come to find out, the popularity contest that we thought died back in high school still lives on... Keep reading to get the full scoop!
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If there's one true piece of advice I could offer to any blogger, it would be to choose your blogging platform carefully. There are several viable options out there, but I have to say wholeheartedly, that I would recommend using Wordpress. When I fi... |
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I wanted to take this opportunity to start a brand new series of posts designed to help all of my fellow bloggers out there. When I first started blogging almost a year ago, I thought that all I had to worry about was creating interesting content and ... |
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Today's "Tackle It Tuesday" theme is going to address how to make your blog load faster as well as give you many more search engine links. I'm fairly new to this whole blogging hobby, but I have been dealing with HTML code, in an amateurish way, for... |