Blogging

Promote Your Blogs by Sending Out an E-Mail Newsletter

Get online communities interested in your blog posts by putting together an e-mailing with your best or most popular blogs. You can feature links to your blog posting, or you can copy and paste the text [more…]

What Elements You Can Expect in All Blogs

Most blogs, no matter what topic they cover, look similar because the elements of one blog are common to all blogs. Look for these characteristics in blogs you come across on the Internet: [more…]

What You Can Find in a Blog Sidebar

Most blogs contain sidebar material. Most blogs are laid out in two or three columns, and the sidebar material typically appears in the second and/or third columns. [more…]

Use Comments to Interact with Blog Readers

Comments are what make blogs different from a Web site. The opportunity to interact and converse with the creator of a Web site and with other readers is almost unique to blogs. Visitors to a blog can [more…]

Use Blogmapping to Show Where You're Blogging From

Blogmapping (or feed mapping) is a service that displays the geographic locations of bloggers on a mapping system, such as Microsoft Live Map or Google Maps. You can map your location based on your ZIP [more…]

Share the Local Weather Report on Your Blog

Let your blog readers know just what kind of weather you’re experiencing today with iBegin Weather. This little widget allows you to choose a Canadian or U.S. city with a simple browsing interface and [more…]

Incorporate Social Bookmarking into Your Blog

When you create a catalog of links you want to bookmark on a social bookmarking site, you can share that list with others on your blog. Social bookmarking systems [more…]

Encourage Your Blog Visitors to Digg Your Content

Digg is a Web service dedicated to user-powered content. Digg specializes in user community rating and voting, which allow users to submit and vote on what content, comments, videos, or images are important [more…]

Create an Avatar to Represent You in Your Blog Profile

An avatar is a visual representation of yourself, often a comic or cartoon. Instead of a photo in your blog profile, you can use an avatar!

You can portray yourself in avatar form on any Web site that lets [more…]

MyBlogLog Builds Community with Blog Visitor Activity Tracking

MyBlogLogis a tracking and community tool that allows bloggers to bookmark and share favorite blogs, display cool widgets, and keep track of what blog visitors find interesting. [more…]

Blog beyond Your Own Site and Invite Guest Bloggers In

If you want to build a community around your blog, participate in others' blogs — and be on the lookout for bloggers who you'd like to invite to make an appearance in your own blogosphere as a guest. [more…]

Stay in Touch with Your Blog Community with E-Mail Options

Offering e-mail delivery of some or all of your blog content to your readership can attract users who aren’t comfortable with some of the fancier technologies, such as RSS. Try these three tactics with [more…]

Where to Find Skilled Designers Experienced with WordPress

If you’re looking for someone to add pizzazz to your blog, you want that person to know your WordPress platform. These designers fit the bill: [more…]

Where to Find WordPress Resources

If you use WordPress as the platform for your blog or Web site, you can make use of any or all of the many tools WordPress offers, including: [more…]

Where to Find Community Support for WordPress

Each version of WordPress — hosted, self-hosted, and multiuser — has support forums run by volunteers from the WordPress community. In these forums, you can ask questions and get answers from seasoned [more…]

Touring the WordPress Administration Panel

This table gives you brief descriptions of the main menu items in the WordPress Administration panel apply across all versions of WordPress — WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and WordPress MU [more…]

How to Find Blog Hosting Services Friendly to WordPress

WordPress can host your blog itself, or help you host it yourself, but if you want to roam outside of the WordPress corral, the following sites can accommodate your WordPress page: [more…]

WordPress For Dummies Cheat Sheet

The WordPress platform offers blog hosting, blog designs, and blog support. Various WordPress websites give you opportunities to do everything from download features for your homepage to chat with other [more…]

Hosted Blogging Applications that Charge a Fee

These services provide a place for your blog and the applications to run it for a fee. You can choose the fee level or pay no fee on some sites, if you’re willing to add ads to your blog. [more…]

Free, Hosted Blogging Applications

If you want to blog but want someone else to host your online musings, the organizations listed here will host your blog and not charge you for providing the applications to run it. [more…]

Blogging Applications to Use on Your Own Server

You pay a little to use most of these blogging applications, but for that fee, you generally are linked in to other services — and a couple have free versions as well as fee-based ones. The services, the [more…]

Free Blogging Applications to Install on Your Own Server

If you blog, and want to share your thoughts, photos, videos, and whatnot with visitors to your Web page, the following lists can link you up with free software applications and the language they use so [more…]

Blogging For Dummies Cheat Sheet

If you want to share your thoughts, pictures, expertise, or what-have-you through a blog, you have a wide range of applications you can install and use. The best part is that many of them are free! [more…]

Where to Find Blogging Help

You're not the only one blogging, whether you're using Whether you’re blogging with Google Blogger or through some other host, you’re not the only one out there sharing thoughts, experiences, graphics, [more…]

Free Blog Templates

Google Blogger helps you with the basics of creating your own blog, but you want your blog to reflect your personality, don’t you? Well, templates that you can use and adapt as your creativity dictates [more…]