5 WordPress Plugins for Adding Slideshows and Featured Content to Your Blog
Posted on November 29, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
Using featured content slideshows with your WordPress blog is a great way to add visual appeal. It also gives your readers a convenient way to read specific posts, without having to browse through several pages.
Sites like Yahoo and AOL even use featured content slideshows on their homepages, to hype certain articles. Here are 5 great WordPress plugins for creating featured post slideshows. Hopefully, one of them works great for your blog.
Add a Bing Map to a Blog Post in Windows Live Writer
Posted on November 26, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
The latest version of Windows Live Writer adds even more features to make posting to a blog that much easier. One feature of the application is the ability to add, with just the click of a button, a Microsoft Bing Map to a blog post. Learn how to add a Bing Map to your blog post and explore some of the reasons to do so in the first place.
Edit the Spell Check Settings in Windows Live Writer
Posted on October 15, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
Although it doesn’t contain all of the features of a full-fledged word processor, Windows Live Writer has most of the features bloggers are looking for to compose, edit, and publish posts on their personal or commercial blogs. One feature necessary to publish quality blog posts is the spell checker. Learn how to edit the spell check feature in Windows Live Writer to suit your particular needs and tastes.
Create a Disclosure Policy for Your Blog the Easy Way
Posted on September 16, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
If your blog does not already have a disclosure policy, it is probably because all the legalese involved makes you want to scream in utter frustration. The disclosure policy is an important part of any Web site, as it tells who writes the material, how the blog makes money, who to contact with questions and other important information.
Generating a custom disclosure policy is a breeze with DisclosurePolicy.org. In six fill-in-the-blank steps, you will have a disclosure ready to copy/paste into your blog.
Keep a Personal Blog by Email with OhLife.com
Posted on September 15, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
Blogging is a time-consuming job (or past time, for some). Many people who have not joined the blogosphere are deterred by the sheer amount of work involved. Plus, blogging requires great consistency—daily posts, in most cases. On busy days, it is easy to forget the task.
OhLife.com is a new kind of blog service designed specifically for keeping personal, diary-style blogs. Instead of logging into a specific Web site or using a blogging client like Live Writer, bloggers simply answer an email every day. For those who need constant prodding to stay on task, this may be just the solution.
Listen to Blogs and other RSS Feeds with BlogRadio
Posted on July 8, 2010 - Filed Under Blogging, Free Software Downloads | 1 Comment
Subscribing to blogs is a great way to keep track of the topics that are important to us, but after awhile, we seem to accumulate more RSS feeds than we can possibly read consistently. Instead of deleting unread posts, and possibly missing important information, a service called BlogRadio can read an entire blog’s posts with a pleasing voice, leaving us free to surf the web, wash the dishes or work while listening.
After downloading and installing BlogRadio, enter your email address under the No box when asked if you have ever used BlogRadio before, then click Let’s Get Started.