Ever felt like you wished some one had told you about what mistakes NOT to make when blogging before you MADE the mistake?
Well I know I have so here are my five top mistakes made by new bloggers:
#1 Copying and pasting text written in Word into blog post
When you copy and paste text from MS [...]
Here’s My Top Five Mistakes Made By New Bloggers — What Are Yours?
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. [...]
Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part III
Quite a few readers have been asking why Flickr not Picasa or Photobucket. With any luck this last post in our Flickr series will help explain as I demonstrate some of the creative ways Flickr can be used.
Creating Cool Stuff From Your Flickr Photos
One of the best aspects of Flickr is they allow outside (”third [...]
Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part II
Hopefully our Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part I post helped you set up and start using your Flickr account. Now its time to learn how you can use Flickr as part of building your your personal learning network (PLN) in this second post of our Flickr series.
Connecting With Others
An important aspect of [...]
Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part I
With time you realize taking your own photos to use in your blog posts is often easier, and more fun, than searching for and attributing creative commons images. And sharing these photos online with your friends, using photosharing websites like Flickr, is even more fun!
This post is part of a series to help people [...]
Creating Equations Using An Online Graph Creator
Can you use too many graphs in blog posts? Like any ideas for using images in blog posts you do need to use a mixture to keep it interesting for readers.
However I’m sure you would want to know about more online graph creators, especially one that can be used to as an equation editor. Thanks [...]
Using Online Tools To Create Simple Graphs for Blog Posts
Always wanted an online tool that creates cool graphs after seeing how Kathy Sierra used them effectively to enhance her blog posts.
Thanks to Steve Dembo I’ve now found Crappy Graph — excellent for creating quick, easy graphs. Below is the Crappy Graph I created (one handed while drying my hair) titled the Web [...]
Share Your Advice on Using Student Photos on Blogs
Pepper Dellinger asked a really good question “Is it safe to add pictures of students doing class activities to your blog?”.
Since educators have differing views on the use of student images I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for us to discuss the issues while sharing tips and links to resources.
So can you please [...]
Uploading Photos From Digital Cameras Into Blog Posts
Taking your own photos to use as images in blog posts are an excellent idea. But uploading photos directly from your digital camera directly into your blog posts isn’t!
The photo size our digital cameras produce are:
Very large e.g. my 4.0 mega pixel digital camera photos are about 2272 x 1704 pixels and 700 KB [...]
Embedding Wordles Into Blog Posts
Have you become addicted to Wordle like me? The Wordle addiction is definitely spreading but embedding Wordles you create to your blog post can be tricky.
What is Wordle?
Wordle is a free web site for easily creating beautiful word clouds from text, URLs, RSS feeds or del.icio.us account. They are a great way of [...]


