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How to Create a Static Front Page For Your Blog

There are a few situations where bloggers don’t want their front page (’Home’) to display their latest post and want a static page instead.
About Static Front Pages
Educators occasionally use a static home page to provide background information to parents or students about the purpose of the blog. Their Home page normally contains content that [...]

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Taking The Agony Out Of Using Custom Image Headers

Are you like me?  Driven by a strong desire to add that individual touch to your blog using a custom image header?  But through not fault of your own designing your own image header always turns out BAD?
There is a solution! Instead of trying to design your own image header visit Free Web Page Headers.  [...]

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How To Keep Your Hair (and Sanity) When Doing Blog Makeovers!

Ever felt like you’re going slightly totally crazy?
You upload a nice new custom image header.  Or you rename your blog categories!  But when you visit your blog site these new changes haven’t appeared and you see the old version of your blog.
Rest assured you aren’t crazy!
But until you understand the culprit lies with your browser’s [...]

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Edublogs Themes That Allow Comments on Pages!

Which blog themes allow readers to write comments on pages is a common question asked in the Edublogs forum.
Problem is some themes allow comments on pages and others don’t.  To find the answer you need to try each theme, which is a lengthy process.  It took me hours to Separate the 100 Edublogs themes Into [...]

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What Do Your Readers Really SEE?

Simple facts from the stats — for my personal blog Mobile Technology in TAFE.
The Facts

Approx. 50 people visit my blog site each day.
Main web browsers used for viewing my blog are FireFox (52.93 % ), Internet Explorer (39.93 %) and Safari (4.87 %).
Approx. 750 people subscribe to my blog and read my posts using a [...]

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The 100 Edublogs Themes Separated Into Categories To Make Choosing Your Next Theme Easier

Given there are 100 Edublogs themes available for you to use ranging from themes that can’t be altered to themes that are “extremely customizable” you can spend quite a bit of time testing themes to find the “perfect theme”. So I’ve decided to help make your task a bit easier (I hope) by categorizing [...]

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What To Consider When Choosing Your Blog Theme

You only have a limited time to make the right impression for first time readers; blog theme, post layout and blog clutter all impact on first impressions. Great content is easily missed if your blog theme is distracting or off putting.
Tips for Road testing Blog Themes
New bloggers often spend considerable time changing their [...]

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Tips For Doing A Blog Makeover

Fantastic news! Our Getting More Out of Widgets! post inspired community members to make adjustments or add extra widgets to their blog, plus motivated some to do “blog makeovers”.
Larry Ferlazzo suggested
Here in the U.S there’s a popular TV show where producers go into someone’s home, and completely redo a room. Crazy idea, I know, [...]

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Getting More Out of Widgets!

Wow – thanks everyone. Your response, support and feedback has been incredible! We have set up this page to keep track of your feedback on what you’d like to see covered!
As you can see there are some really great topic areas to get us started. Which got me thinking! The Edublogger is about [...]

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