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DIY Decorating Your Blog for Any Holiday or Season

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Sue Waters — 13 Comments ↓

It’s that time of the year again when people get creative and start decorating their houses for the festive season. Everyone loves Christmas decorations, but did you know that you can get just as creative with decorating your blog? With…

Tagged with: Christmas, image header, theme, widgets
Posted in Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging, Using Blogs With Students, Working With Web 2.0 Tools

Using categories to organize multiple classes or subjects on your blog

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Sue Waters — 14 Comments ↓

The most common questions we’re asked are how to use one blog with multiple classes or subjects; or how do I send posts to multiple pages on my blog. The good news is it is really easy once you know…

Posted in Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging, Using Blogs With Students

Adding the NEW twitter follow button and other twitter widgets to your blog

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Ronnie Burt — 3 Comments ↓

Just yesterday Twitter launched a new “Follow” button that will make life easier for all of us twitteraholics. Before now, you had to put a link to your twitter page and then potential fellow tweeters had to click “follow” there.…

Tagged with: twitter, twitter widget
Posted in Growing Blog Readership, Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging, Working With Web 2.0 Tools

Top widgets for the sidebar of your class or student blog

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Ronnie Burt — 20 Comments ↓

Note: This post is cross-posted from the Edublogs News blog. If you like what you read, please consider subscribing here. Did you know that the fastest and easiest way to add new features to your blog is by embedding widgets…

Tagged with: text widget, voki, widgets
Posted in Setting Up & Using Widgets, Tips For Better Blogging

Here’s My CHEATS Method For Adding Images to Blog Sidebars

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Sue Waters — 30 Comments ↓

I’m frequently asked how to add images to blog sidebars — so I thought it would help to share my quick and easy cheats method. So what do you need to know to do this? To start with you need…

Tagged with: image in text widgets, text widget, widget
Posted in All About Using Images, Setting Up & Using Widgets