I have great news everyone. I have finally come across a great HTML and CSS teacher for you! If you're like me, you've been teaching yourself the hard way, searching through lots of questionable sites sorting through all the out-of-date code. Its so frustrating and practically impossible to learn how to design websites that way, whether its to save money and design your own site or to become a blog designer and make money designing for others. The level of difficulty to find quality information is actually why I moved to another blogging subject, which I now love and intend to stay on. But for all the others who want to get in on the elusive designing club, this teacher is a great way to go.
His name is Robert. You can reach him at idahosixstring@hotmail.com. I was just blown away with some of the stuff he's done and built. I've seen a site he completely WROTE FROM SCRATCH. No copy and paste, he actually typed out all the code. I've been thinking of moving my site to another host and getting a domain and he was showing me ways to get great asp hosting and a good site, making it all look super easy; which is what I'm all for of course.
Even if you just want to learn something simple like changing your fonts, correctly adding a third column to your blog, and stuff like that, he can teach you how to do it the right way. Plus, I knew he was for you all when he told me his prices are COMPLETELY NEGOTIABLE! Woohoo. His schedule will likely fill up fast, so if your interested I'd e-mail him soon. idahosixstring@hotmail.com He's also working on building his own game engine. He does advanced stuff. But he can still explain how to do the simple things in an easy way. I've learned that sometimes its ok to have a little help :-)
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wow! Huge DIY Designing News!!!!
You now have a personal designer customizable by you at your fingertips. Blogger in draft just released its customizable template program. It does just about everything!!!!
Now you don't have to know complicated html to change your blog to three columns, change colors, fonts, almost anything!
If you want to check it out more go to www.blogger.com/templates
They will give you directions how to get this for yourself.
Its great! Have fun.
Now you don't have to know complicated html to change your blog to three columns, change colors, fonts, almost anything!
If you want to check it out more go to www.blogger.com/templates
They will give you directions how to get this for yourself.
Its great! Have fun.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Super Easy Button Tutorial
I will be writing this as plainly as possible, so it will be direct without a lot of confusing filler words.
How to make a 125x125 Blog Button with a copy code box.
1. Design your 125x125 Button Picture.
(I use a free program called paint.net - If you don't know how to make a 125x125 image, stay tuned for a tutorial coming up on how to do it using this program.)
2. Upload your image to your photobucket accout. Copy the direct image url.
(photobucket is a free image hosting web site that uploads your images and gives them a url address for you to use when sharing. I've been using them for a while now.)
3. Paste the url into this code where it says Paste Url Here. Don't delete the quotation marks!
4. Enter your blogs url address where it says enter your blogs home url here. Enter your Blog's Name where it says Blog's Name Here.
5. Where it says Tag Identifiers Here, you need to put in a unique series of words, about 3 words will do it. This is so if you ever want to look up who has put your button on their blog, you can enter those words, including the quotation marks (very important) and enter them into a search engine. The results will be anyone who has grabbed your button for their blog. Cool huh?
6. Copy code and paste into an html/java script gadget onto your blog and done.
Let me know how it goes!
How to make a 125x125 Blog Button with a copy code box.
1. Design your 125x125 Button Picture.
(I use a free program called paint.net - If you don't know how to make a 125x125 image, stay tuned for a tutorial coming up on how to do it using this program.)
2. Upload your image to your photobucket accout. Copy the direct image url.
(photobucket is a free image hosting web site that uploads your images and gives them a url address for you to use when sharing. I've been using them for a while now.)
3. Paste the url into this code where it says Paste Url Here. Don't delete the quotation marks!
4. Enter your blogs url address where it says enter your blogs home url here. Enter your Blog's Name where it says Blog's Name Here.
5. Where it says Tag Identifiers Here, you need to put in a unique series of words, about 3 words will do it. This is so if you ever want to look up who has put your button on their blog, you can enter those words, including the quotation marks (very important) and enter them into a search engine. The results will be anyone who has grabbed your button for their blog. Cool huh?
6. Copy code and paste into an html/java script gadget onto your blog and done.
Let me know how it goes!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Help Your Blog Grow Part 1
When your just starting a blog, one of the hardest parts is getting your name out there. If people don't know you exist, then it is very unlikely that they'll be visiting your blog. Unless they somehow miraculously find you through a search engine or something. Amongst the other 10,000+ results. I've have not found that particularily effective so far :-).
If your really serious about your blog, then one thing you may want to consider is advertising on a blog that's bigger than yours. Some offer advertising for Mom businesses for free, like Moms By Heart (She's awsome), and others you pay a small fee. One thing I don't regret is advertising on another's blog. I get a lot more hits and exposure that way.
(Now, this may not be the same for everyone - in other words, if you advertise and it doesn't work out, you agree to not blame me or sue me or anything - I'm just trying to let others know what I've learned :-)
One thing that I have been really working hard at is a way to get good advertising on another's blog without the cost of an advertising spot. We're in college with a baby, so we are not rich! And I actually found a way. I joined up with a few other blogs, and we are now blogging partners and we help each other out. I made a button for each of us and we all have a set buttons with links to our partners on each of our blogs in one of the top 3 spots of our sidebars. We are all in agreement to keep them there as long as we wish to participate. Now we all have a great advertising spot without the cost. It was a lot of work to put this together when I first started out, but its totally great. And I met some great people along the way too.
(If your interested in me helping you put one of these together for yourself, just let me know and I'll try to help you out and let you know what you need to do)
Another thing that I've learned that has made a huge difference for me (we're talking exponential) is something that I've really worked at and have reaped great results. That is...
Until next week!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tutorials
I encourage all bloggers to learn as much as they can about how their blog works. For those of you who are interested here are some of what I think are the best tutorial sites around.
For html coding for many kinds of elements http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/ is a great site
To make your blog three columns check out http://www.threecolumnblogger.com/. This is one of the few tutorials I have found that if followed step by step, does work!
For html coding for many kinds of elements http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/ is a great site
To make your blog three columns check out http://www.threecolumnblogger.com/. This is one of the few tutorials I have found that if followed step by step, does work!
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